India

 Home makers

Women of Latur exemplify how people alone can put an end to their misery

Publication Date: 
30/10/2003
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Agriculture, Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Disaster Management, Disaster Housing, Women, Finance, India, Maharashtra
Natural Disasters

 Dealing with disasters

For appropriate disaster management, it is essential to give due importance to political, social, economic as well as environmental aspects. Ignoring any one of them will only compound the crisis

Publication Date: 
29/04/2001
Satendra
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Environment, Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Disaster Management, India, Gujarat, Development
India

 Republic quaked

Gujarat is paying a heavy price for a calamity that is by far the biggest government made disaster since Independence. As the state crawls out from a landscape of debris, it appears as the most imposing symbol of a system that is in comatose, though not d

Publication Date: 
27/02/2001
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Monuments, Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Disaster Management, Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Housing, Building Technology, Construction Industry, Governance, India, Delhi, Gujarat, Bhuj
India

 No signs of science

D eath and earthquakes do not come by appointment. However, an earth

Publication Date: 
27/02/2001
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Monuments, Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Disaster Management, Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Housing, Building Technology, Construction Industry, Governance, India, Delhi, Gujarat, Bhuj
India

 Shaky business

A deadly nexus between government officials and builders reduce most of Gujarat s homes to rubbles

Publication Date: 
27/02/2001
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Monuments, Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Disaster Management, Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Housing, Building Technology, Construction Industry, Governance, India, Delhi, Gujarat, Bhuj
India

 Science is a political orphan

This country does not need a Crisis Management Group. It needs a Governance Crisis Management Group

Publication Date: 
27/02/2001
Anil Agarwal
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Natural Disasters, Disaster Management, Disaster Preparedness, Building Technology, Governance, Anil Agarwal, India
Natural Disasters

 Earth shaking intervention

An earthquake rocks El Salvador causing widespread destruction. Deforestation aggravates the situation

Publication Date: 
14/02/2001
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Deforestation, Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Disaster Management, Governance, El Salvador, Guatemala
India

 UNITED NATIONS

With an eye on the drought situation that has gripped India, the United Nations (UN)

Publication Date: 
14/06/2000
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Pollution, Drought, Disaster Management, Aid, India
Natural Disasters

 Nature s wrath

A hurricane wreaks havoc in North Carolina in the US

Publication Date: 
14/10/1999
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Tags:
Natural Disasters, Storms, Disaster Management, United States Of America (US)
India

 Respite to eco victims

the ministry of environment and forests (mef), in collaboration with the General Insurance Corporation of India, is planning to establish an Environment Relief Fund to provide relief to victims of

Publication Date: 
29/04/1997
Down to Earth
Tags:
Disaster Management, Compensation, Industry, India

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