Know Disasters magazine: May - June 2022

This issue is dedicated to different dimensions of building resilience in floods. This May - June 2022 issue brings different articles, relevant news, viewpoints and studies, and information about recent books around its central theme. The objective of Know Disasters Magazine is to make disasters everyone's business.

Floods bring the most recurrent calamity. India faces floods almost every year, in varying degrees of magnitude. The country suffers huge economic losses annually besides the loss of human lives due to low resilience to floods. The devastation caused due to floods in the past has drawn the attention of the planners of the country towards comprehensive flood management plans, policies and implementation thereof. The flood management practices have largely focused on reducing flooding and reducing the susceptibility to flood damage through a variety of interventions.