Know Disasters magazine: May - June 2021

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. 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).

As disasters are becoming more frequent and destructive in India and around the world, building back resilience seems to be the only way out towards sustainable development and Disaster Risk Reduction. Creating a culture of disaster resilience for the nation and the world is a proactive rather than a reactive approach to the problems caused by disasters. Such a culture can provide a pathway for reducing vulnerability and the impacts of disasters before they occur; the potential to decrease the costs of disasters at all levels and save lives while protecting infrastructure, livelihoods, social systems and the environment.