India

This report assesses the social and economic effects of extreme heat through the prism of twelve cities that are already enduring and addressing dramatic impacts of heat waves.

This report shares inspiring stories of epidemics that didn’t happen, or whose impact was lessened, because of careful planning and swift strategic action.

This report reimagines the future of food, and how countries of the Global South, including India, can build resilient food systems.

This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled ‘Reaching the Last Citizen in the Pandemic: An Agenda for Panchayats’ and focuses on the important theme of effective local governance in the age of the pandemic.

This paper develops a community resilience index for Kerala’s urban flood-prone areas (CRIF) through a rigorous bottom-up approach. Further, the CRIF Index is put into action through a case study of the Kochi Municipal Corporation area.

The report covers methodology for flood mitigation focusing on non-structural and structural measures, efficacy of past flood management programmes and ways forward in terms of early warning, flood inundation levels and decision support systems.

This study performs an economic efficiency and equity analysis of an Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction and resilience enhancement intervention in India using a Cost-Benefit Analysis to compare implementation costs with observed and future benefits.

This briefing explores climate-related health threats facing informal urban workers in India and Zimbabwe drawing on recent research.