Postcolonial futures for disaster risk reduction in South Asia

This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled ‘Postcolonial Futures for Disaster Risk Reduction in South Asia’ offers pathways towards rethinking disaster risk and enhancing people’s everyday lives and livelihoods, moving away and ahead from mostly Western concepts, frameworks, methodologies, and tools to more plural local pathways.

Read 17 vibrant contributors-provoking perspectives to help you find your way to disaster risk reduction and preparedness for the future. This issue's goal is to explore how the colonial legacy, that is, scholarship on disasters as well as policies and actions to reduce risk, is reinterpreted and subverted by local people across South Asia.