India

This issue brings different articles from the field of disaster management. Know Disasters Magazine is committed to making disasters everyone's business by building resilience in the community and creating awareness. 

This brief tries to establish an eco-hydrological perspective on floods. It suggests devising a policy response which considers four dimensions of hydrological interactions within the river-floodplain ecosystems – lateral, longitudinal, vertical and temporal.

Know Disasters is an international magazine with an aim to "Making Disasters Everybody's business'. This is the sixth issue (July-August 2021) and the theme of current issue is Extreme Events and Disaster Risk Reduction.

This report summarizes the risks posed on India's climate, ecosystems, food and water systems, and citizens by climate change, as well as the country's policies for mitigation, adaptation, and emissions reductions.

While India has made tremendous progress over the last few decades in food grain production and a reduction in malnutrition rates, it continues to bear a huge burden of food and nutrition insecurity.

This special issue of Southasiadisasters.net highlights how the food and livelihood security of women (especially those engaged in agriculture and allied livelihoods) have been affected by the pandemic.

This paper provides an understanding of what drives migration, the patterns associated with it, its issues and consequences, and provide broader policy recommendations - to use social protection programme to provide safety net to migrants.

LANDSLIP is a 'research-into-action' project seeking to develop a prototype regional rainfall-induced landslide Early Warning System in two Indian pilot case study areas.