Climate Change

Why governments are wrong about climate change

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Publication Date: 
01/03/2009
Bjrn Lomborg
Urban World
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Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Global Warming, Hurricanes, Malaria, Emission Targets, Climate Mitigation, Renewable Energy, Disaster Management, United States Of America (US), Global, Developing Countries
Water Resources

Hydro-climatic disasters in water resources management

Hydro-climatic disasters are responsible for the serious disruption of the functioning of a society or community and widespread human, material or environmental losses. These disasters and the communities exposed to them may be expected to climb with increased climate variability as a result of climate change.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2009
Cap-Net
Tags:
Water Resources, Water Management, Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Impacts, Natural Disasters, Floods, Drought, Disaster Management
Natural Disasters

Chemical disaster management

This document on chemical disaster management contains detailed descriptive lectures, talks of holistic disaster management (DM) framework, integration of chemical risk to holisitc and multi-hazard risk management, site assessment, legal framework, district level DM planning, as well as capacity building.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2009
Anil K. Gupta, Sreeja S. Nair, Shri Shard
National Institute of Disaster Management
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Chemical Industry, Disaster Management, Disaster Preparedness, Occupational Health, Occupational Safety, Industrial Disasters, India
Natural Disasters

 Slow relief

Survivors asked to show identity proofs lost to tsunami a people

Publication Date: 
27/02/2009
Sumana Narayanan
Down to Earth
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Natural Disasters, Tsunami, Disaster Management, Rehabilitation, Compensation, Tamil Nadu
Natural Disasters

Fillip to disaster mitigation project in Andhra Pradesh

World Bank clears Rs. 511-crore for the State

Special Correspondent

Publication Date: 
27/02/2009
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Cyclones, Disaster Management, World Bank, Andhra Pradesh
Natural Disasters

Natural disaster (Editorial)

It is a positive sign that the Government of India has finally realised the vulnerability of Assam and other parts of the North East to natural disasters like earthquake and floods and deployed one battalion of the newly formed National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) to deal with any such eventuality.

Publication Date: 
25/02/2009
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
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Land, Natural Disasters, Disaster Management, Assam
Natural Disasters

New flood-alert system in North-East soon

Shillong:
Come monsoon. A new flood monitoring system, aided by microwave remote sensing, will come up along the Brahmaputra basin in the North-East to help plan and execute efficient emergency response measures.

Publication Date: 
19/02/2009
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
North East, Brahmaputra, Natural Disasters, Flood Control, Disaster Management, Remote Sensing
Natural Disasters

New frontiers in earthquake management in India

N. Vinod Chandra Menon

Publication Date: 
10/02/2009
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Earthquakes, Disaster Management, India
Natural Disasters

Space technology in flood management (Editorial)

Publication Date: 
10/02/2009
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
Tags:
Flood Control, Disaster Management, Space Technology, India
Natural Disasters

Kosi embankment breach in Nepal: Need for a paradigm shift in responding to floods

The breach of the Kosi embankment in Nepal in August 2008 marked the failure of conventional ways of controlling floods. After discussing the physical characteristics of the Kosi River and the Kosi barrage project, this paper suggests that the high sediment content of the Kosi River implies a major risk to the proposed Kosi high dam and its ability to control floods in Bihar.

Publication Date: 
07/02/2009
Ajaya Dixit
Economic and Political Weekly
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Rivers, Arun Kosi, Kosi, Tamur Kosi, Dams, Sedimentation, Natural Disasters, Floods, Flood Control, Disaster Management, Hydrology, Nepal, India, Bihar, Statistics, Rainfall

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