Environment

 Disasters galore

Even as the fuel tax protest has hit the headlines, incessant rains have brought the issue of global warming and environmental mismanagement to the fore

Publication Date: 
29/11/2000
Anil Agarwal
Down to Earth
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20001130
12
Tags:
Environment, Floods, Disaster Management, Fossil Fuels, Governance, Anil Agarwal, Politics, India, Corruption, Environment Management, Green Products
Natural Disasters

 A wake up call

Britain s worst ever flood in 50 years could be a result of global warming

Publication Date: 
29/11/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment Politics, Climate Change, Global Warming, Natural Disasters, Floods, Disaster Management, United Kingdom (UK)
India

 A year later...

...Orissa s coastal districts still lies in ruins

Publication Date: 
29/11/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Cyclones, Disaster Management, Public Participation, NGO, Orissa (Odisha)
Natural Disasters

Recent developments toward earthquake risk reduction in India

A developing country like India, with a variety of building practices and social and economic structure, needs to evolve its own strategies for seismic hazard evaluation. Occurrence of few damaging earthquakes during the last decade has pointed to our shortcoming in risk reduction programmes.

Publication Date: 
10/11/2000
Anand S. Arya
Current Science
79
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1270-1277
Tags:
Earthquakes, Natural Disasters, India, Disaster Management, Earth Quake Proof Housing, Building Materials
Environment

 Rising like the Phoenix

After suffering a spate of floods villagers regain environmental and economic vitality

Publication Date: 
29/09/2000
Down to Earth
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20000930
0
Tags:
Land Use, Common Property Resources, Organic Farming, Watershed Development, Floods, Disaster Management, Women, Public Participation, NGO, Rajasthan, Jaipur (D), Sustainable Development
Mining

 Welcome to cyber city

Computers cannot prevent floods a lesson that the Internet savvy chief minister of Andhra Pradesh is learning the hard way

Publication Date: 
29/09/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Land Encroachments, Hussain Sagar, Floods, Flood Control, Disaster Management, Governance, Andhra Pradesh
India

 INDUNDATED by excuses

the floods have once again ravaged Bihar. Claims made by the government that all precautionary measures were taken, embankment and anti-erosion work completed in time and that the floods would not be allowed to occur

Publication Date: 
14/09/2000
Dinesh Kumar Mishra
Down to Earth
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20000915
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Tags:
Burhi Gandak, Kosi, Dams, Floods, Flood Control, Disaster Management, Migration, Governance, Political Parties, Politics, Nepal, Bihar, Corruption
India

 sponsored blight?

Another monsoon. The season of suffering in India s flood plains. And of blaming upstream people for floods. Is there an end to this

Publication Date: 
14/09/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Indus, Health Effects, Waterborne diseases, Natural Disasters, Floods, Flood Control, Disaster Management, Governance, Politics
Agriculture

 KILLING FLOODS

At least 50 people were killed and hundreds were rendered homeless in Bhutan due to flash floods and mudslides caused by fierce rains. Lynpo Khandu Wangchuk, the minister for trade, said that

Publication Date: 
14/09/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Floods, Disaster Management, Bhutan, Rainfall
Climate Change

 Disastrous year!

The year 1999 registered the highest number of disasters since the last 10 years. The trend for the last

Publication Date: 
Wednesday, August 30, 2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Disaster Management, Disaster Preparedness, Governance, Africa, Asia

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