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Earthquake Safe Buildings |
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Increment years, a number
of earthquakes have caused
thousands of deaths and
huge economic losses
in India. Earthquakes of
comparable size in USA...
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From Risk to Resilience |
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Disasters are tragic
interruptions to the
development process,
consuming millions
of unlived lives
and precious infrastructure.
Development infr...
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Post-Disaster Housing Assistance in India |
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The Available data
on the housing in India
suggests two glaring
facts: A. there is a serious
shortage of housing in
the country, and b. the
qual...
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Need for Reassessment |
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Many Departments
working over the issue
of water, irrigation and
floods have changed
their names in the
recent past. thus, department of
Irrigat...
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EDITORIAL
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About the Issue |
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Battered, wounded and scarred, India has barely had time in the last few
decades, to rise from one disaster before being struck down by another. The
Latur earthquake in 1993, Orissa super cyclone in 1999, followed in quick
succession by the Bhuj earthquake, the tsunami, the earthquake in Kashmir, the
flooding of Mumbai city, unprecedented rains and floods in parts of Gujarat and
Maharashtra, and the massive de...
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Paradigm Shift in Managing Disaster |
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Natural and manmade
disasters often
result in loss of lives,
cause injury to people,
and l e ad to los s of
livelihoods and damage and
destruction of property, assets
and infrastructure. Disasters
worsen the risk and exposure of
vulnerable communities and lead
to psycho-social stress and trauma
among the disaster-prone and
disaster-affected communities.
In the case of recurring disasters
like floods, the disaster-prone
communi t i e s of t en be come
victims of a crisis of confidence
as their coping strategies are often
overwhelmed, survival threatened
and normal life adversely affected
for several months repeatedly.
Children, infants, the elderly
and the physically and mentally
cha l l enged peopl e be come
more vulnerable to neglect and
deprivation in the event of sudden
outbreak of disasters, especially
when the displaced communities
are forced to stay in temporary
relief camps. Each year, natural disasters
result in thousands of deaths,
injuries an
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