Climate smart disaster risk management in action

Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 102, December 2013

The 102nd issue of Southasiadisaster.net is on ‘Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management in Action’. The content includes:
i. Institutionalising CSDRM Approach: Towards Effective Results to Cope against Climate Change
ii. India’s Commitment to CBDRM
iii. Conference of Parties in Warsaw: What It Hesitated to Discuss?
iv. National Commitment to Minimise the Negative Impact of Disasters
v. How can Communities Help Unravel the Adaptation Finance Web?
vi. Coping with Disaster – Home Truths from the Cyclone Aila
vii. CIVIL SOCIETY and the STATE: Turkey after the Earthquake
viii. Innovations in Green Economy: Top Three Agenda
ix. Reducing Mismatch in CSDRM Priorities
x. Livelihood Diversification: Reducing Climate Dependency
xi. Significant Accomplishments of GSDMA in 2013
xii. Understanding Disasters Differently
xiii. Ecosystem based Disaster Risk Reduction
xiv. Cyclone Phailin
xv. Gender and CSDRM Approach: A Social Science View
xvi. Sustainable Energy for All

The contributions come from Mihir R. Bhatt, Khyati Halani, Vishal Pathk with AIDMI Team; David South, Editor, Southern Innovator, UK; Emily Wilkinson, Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute, UK; Kaustubh Devale and Sheena Arora, RedR India; Dr. R. Bannerji (IAS), CEO of GSDMA, India; Dr. Rita Jalali, Middle East Technical University, Turkey; and Shibaji Bose, Upasona Ghosh, and Lyla Mehta, UK.