By Janki Andharia and Prabhakar Jayaprakash
The authors are Professor and research scholar at the Jamsetji Tata Centre for Disaster Management, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. andharia@tiss.edu
With the global increase in frequency and intensity of disasters, the need to address diverse challenges in the field of disaster research and practice requires a perspective beyond the current hazard-centric one. The paper points to significance of structural, social, and political processes that define the relationship between communities, ecosystems and technologies in disaster research.
Changing Landscapes Disasters and its research in India
Local risk landscapes are changing fast, with frequent and intense weather events, and societal and environmental stresses which are becoming increasingly uncertain and unpredictable. As a result, many current approaches towards landscapes disasters have only had a partial impact despite concerted efforts at development interventions. According to the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Belgium, which maintains a global database on disasters, the frequency and intensity of landscapes disasters are on the rise. The Haiti earthquake in 2010, the...
