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Displaying 90 of about 612 resultsThis issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the ‘Implementing Cancun Agenda in South Asia' and highlights the important concerns which the Global Platform should address to achieve resilience outcomes. The chief themes highlighted in this issue include the need for good subnational plans, a renewed focus on cities in terms of resilient housing and e…
This issue brief is one of four published to provide specific recommendations for leading stakeholders and the most vulnerable residents who will be impacted by extreme heat in Ahmedabad: key government agencies, health care professionals, outdoor workers, and slum communities.
In the city of Ahmedabad, the poorer communities are particularly at risk t…
By Patralekha Chatterjee
Middle class urban youngsters in India grow up viewing exposure to the hot summer sun as something to be avoided because it darkens the skin — hardly surprising in a country where many equate fair skin with beauty and where skin-lightening lotions do a roaring business.
But when Vani Mehta volunteered for the city of Ahmedaba…
By Mihir Bhatt
The present situation
Over 150 citizens have died due to the overlap of heat wave and drought conditions in India this summer.
India is under the grip of deadly heat wave conditions as large areas are blazing under the sun: Odisha and Telengana have seen over 100 casualties so far this summer.
The heat wave is not only aff…
By Anjali Jaiswal
I'm in New Delhi today, where the searing impact of last year's tragic heat wave can still be seen. With temperatures soaring in late May 2015 and an overdue monsoon delaying relief, a roadway in the capitol city literally melted and more than 2,300 lives were lost across India. In contrast, the city of Ahmedabad - home to over 7 mill…
Improving the infrastructure in urban slums is essential to a city's disaster preparedness.
By Rina Chandran
NEW DELHI - Upgrading slums and giving tenancy rights to residents is key to climate change adaptation and disaster mitigation in India's cities, an analyst said, as the country braces for extreme weather events of greater frequency and intensi…
By Karen Brandon
New SEI work highlights adaptation projects that illustrate how Africa's urban areas can adapt to climate change and work toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
"Inspiring Climate Action in African Cities" brings together 17 case studies that offer insights into creative ways that urban and pari-urban areas have found…
By Elisabeth Gawthrop
New research shows that in Bangladesh, heat wave predictability exists from a few days to several weeks in advance, which could save thousands of lives.
In the United States, extreme heat events have killed more people in the last 30 years than has any other weather-related phenomenon. In Europe, at least 136,835 people died due…
By Aamir Saeed
Last summer, temperatures as high as 45 degrees Celsius led to more than a thousand heat-related deaths in Karachi. This year, as it prepares for the peak of summer heat, the city has opened 179 heatstroke centres to try to hold down the death toll.
Officials have also trained scores of new ambulance drivers and are working with utility…
UCI-led analysis of data from India could have dire implications for future
Irvine, Calif. — An increase in mean temperature of 0.5 degrees Celsius over half a century may not seem all that serious, but it’s enough to have more than doubled the probability of a heat wave killing in excess of 100 people in India, according to researchers at th…
Researchers warn that heat waves in the Eastern Mediterranean likely to occur seven times more often and last three times longer by century’s end
Some 330 people could be dying from heat stress every summer by the century’s end unless meaningful action is taken to reduce global warming gas emissions, Israeli researchers say in a new study.
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This paper presents the results of a large-scale heat mitigation project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Advanced urban heat mitigation technologies that involve the use of super-cool materials combined with properly designed green infrastructure lower urban ambient and land surface temperatures and reduce cooling consumption at the city scale. Daytime radiati…
Mumbai will spend more than double of New York's to manage urban heat generated due to massive concretisation as the summer 2023 has underscored the need to mitigate the impacts of record-breaking heat, particularly in cities around the world subject to the urban heat island ( UHI ) effect (increase in heat due to man-made concretization) which causes t…
Climate scientists are now worried about an increased possibility of deaths if human body temperatures exceed the “wet bulb” threshold of 35°C. A Lancet study found a 55% spike in fatalities in India between 2000-2004 and 2017-2021 due to extreme heat. This is besides the loss of labour hours and the resultant loss of income.[...]It is estimat…
The Centre has mounted an unprecedented interministerial effort to protect the country’s wheat crop, a winter staple, which faces imminent risks from anticipated heatwaves due to early summer, and has set up a panel to deal with the problem.
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Scores of state-employed farm scientists from institutions, such as the flagship Indian Institute of Whea…