[HTML][HTML] The making of India's COVID-19 disaster: a Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Assemblage analysis

P McGowran, H Johns, E Raju… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
This article analyses the suite of policies and measures enacted by the Indian Union
Government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic through apparatuses of disaster …

Comparative analysis of disaster management between India and Nigeria

E Shakeri, B Vizvari, R Nazerian - International Journal of Disaster Risk …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper reviews, compares, and analyzes the legal and institutional frameworks of the
Disaster Management (DM) systems in India and Nigeria. This research aims to study the …

Engaging donors on crowdfunding platform in Disaster Relief Operations (DRO) using gamification: A Civic Voluntary Model (CVM) approach

A Behl, P Dutta - International Journal of Information Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Natural disasters have caused significant financial and economic losses. One prominent
way to combat these losses is crowdfunding. Donation-based crowdfunding platforms have …

Climate change and existential threats

A Kumar, S Nagar, S Anand - Global climate change, 2021 - Elsevier
The unprecedented intrusion of human beings into nature has given rise to worldwide
devastations. Animals and plants have been suffering on a massive scale. Newer problems …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the gap between policy and action in Disaster Risk Reduction: A case study from India

A Ogra, A Donovan, G Adamson… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The transition from a response-based paradigm to an anticipative, prevention-based
approach remains a stubborn challenge in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). Whilst the United …

From piecemeal to holistic: Introducing sustainability science in Indian Universities to attain UN-Sustainable Development Goals

P Priyadarshini, PC Abhilash - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The doctrine of Sustainability Science (SS) is widely acknowledged as a tool for
attaining global sustainability and is becoming the core philosophy of national and …

Institutional framework and administrative systems for effective disaster risk governance–Perspectives of 2013 Cyclone Phailin in India

I Pal, T Ghosh, C Ghosh - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2017 - Elsevier
Risk Governance mechanism is guided by the administrative systems and institutional
framework of the central and provincial governments. Policies and legislations related to the …

Modeling downward counterfactual events: Unrealized disasters and why they matter

YC Lin, SF Jenkins, JR Chow, S Biass, G Woo… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Disaster risk research's reliance on past events has proved inadequate when it comes to
extreme events. This shortcoming stems from limited records (for example, due to the vast …

“We and the nurses are now working with one voice”: How community leaders and health committee members describe their role in Sierra Leone's Ebola response

SA McMahon, LS Ho, K Scott, H Brown, L Miller… - BMC health services …, 2017 - Springer
Background Across low-income settings, community volunteers and health committee
members support the formal health system-both routinely and amid emergencies-by …

Disasters, deaths, and the Sendai goal one: Lessons from Odisha, India

NS Ray-Bennett - World Development, 2018 - Elsevier
Natural disasters (such as floods, cyclones, heat waves, and lightning) have the potential to
cause human loss and injury. Due to climate change, the number of people affected by …