India

The Fifth World Conference on Disaster Management (WCDM-2021) was held on November 24-27 in New Delhi.

Over the last two decades, India has developed two complementary lines of disaster management effort, improving its domestic capability and establishing India as an emerging donor that increasingly provides disaster relief to other countries.

This atlas provides districts maps on hazard events and vulnerability for all the calendar months and at annual scale in India.

Spatio-temporal mapping of climatic and biological disaster outbreak in India has been undertaken using historical data and scientific tools to explore options to support for relief, recovery, resilience, and adaptation.

This paper examines critical gaps and implications of risk communication in the global agreements SFDRR, SDGs, and UNFCCC by assessing three select case studies from urban areas of tropics in South Asia.

This study assesses the impact of climate change on urban home-based workers in South Asia focussing on women home-based workers living in slums and informal settlements in Bangladesh, India and Nepal.

This report seeks to describe the need for power sector resilience in India, review the main barriers in the way of building power sector resilience in India, and define areas of action for different stakeholder groups in the power sector. 

Know Disasters is an international magazine with an aim to "Making Disasters Everybody's business'. It is published by Global Forum for Disaster Reduction and New Media Communications Mumbai.