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Covid-19 Second Wave and Cities
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This report discusses how the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hit India in the beginning of April 2021, followed by two months of a dystopian nightmare unfolding in India’s cities
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The Safe School Context Analysi (SSCA) is a research and analysis report comprising information for various stakeholders to advocate effectively for school safety at national/state level in India.
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Know Disasters is an international magazine with an aim to "Making Disasters Everybody's business'. This is fifth issue (May-June 2021) and the theme of current issue is Build Back Resilience in the backdrop of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. (SFDRR).
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India has witnessed a rapid pace of migration from areas with intensive agriculture to populated megacities, which are faced with increasing threat from climate hazards. Greater attention is needed for vulnerable new migrants.
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Through this event RICH aimed to promote an extensive community dialogue and empower collaborative change to transform the way the world produces, consumes and thinks about dryland food systems. Dry lands contribute 42% of the total food grain production

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The annual lightning report 2020-2021 contains a mapping of entire lightning strikes over India and all 37 states and union territories along with its impacts and detailed analysis. The report is of extremely high value and it is very useful for disaster

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This paper discusses the transition from a response-based paradigm to an anticipative, prevention-based approach remains a stubborn challenge in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). Whilst the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has

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This publication profiles 51 natural hazard events of nineteenth century Kashmir to provide insights into the impacts of varying degree of severity that spread through the socioeconomic and political systems, influenced adaptation, and increased the

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