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The Indian Space Research Organisation will begin mapping 500 cities next month, highlighting the features that are expected to help urban planners devise master plans for them. The maps will use satellite images to show features such as land use, water bodies, geomorphology, urban sprawl, wastelands and floods hazards...
Climate change adaptation should be mainstreamed into national development plans, suggests Bindu Lohani in Live Mint. One of the examples highlighted is a joint initiative of the UK government, the Rockefeller Foundation and ADB to boost climate resilience at 25 cities in Asia by helping to integrate climate risks into city plans and develop resilient infrastructure...
Why are urban studies conversations across the world are now focussing not as much on 'smart city as on 'resilient city'? Building resilient cities is now seen as the best urban bulwark to micro and macro challenges, including climate change, reports the Hindustan Times...
'The threat of climate change in India is real and adapting to the fast-changing weather will be key to fighting global warming. For that, administrators at the ground level need to know about its threats and ways it can be dealt with in a cost-effective manner,' warns a recent study conducted by the Indian Environment Ministry...
'More people are moving to cities with no knowledge of the disasters they could be exposed to. Cities must take the probability of such disasters seriously and discourage unplanned urbanization,' said Dunu Roy, director of Hazards Centre, a Delhi-based non-government organization...
'Disaster management training should not be made an occasional ritual but needs to be mainstreamed. It should be taught as a subject from primary to post-graduate level,' said Kashmir divisional commissioner Asgar Ali Samoon...
The National Disaster Management Authority has said safety measures at all atomic plants in the country were in place but admitted earthquakes at these sites cannot be completely ruled out - though 'there is still scope for additional facilities to further bolster safety at these plants, especially after what happened in Fukushima (in Japan)', reports the Hindustan Times...
Union minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Vilasrao Deshmukh on Monday asked the city-based Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (Incois) to focus on developing the tsunami warning centre on its campus into a global one...
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