Indian subcontinent is being visited by natural disasters of varying intensities since time immemorial, inflicting huge losses to life and property. Even a small event turns into a disaster in India primarily because of our relief-centric approach. It was the year 2005, when the Government of ...
followed by China and India have experienced the most disasters since 1995 and last year alone 24.2 million people were displaced by sudden onset disasters, three times as many as by conflict and violence."
High incidence of disasters in recent years make us aware again, before human nature is so small. Today, the alarm bells continued to ring the worsening environment, global warming, climate change and pollution of the soil, rivers and oceans threaten people. Face a threat to the survival of ...
Landslide hazard zonation using RS and GIS techniques: a case study of Meenachil and Kanjirappally Taluk, Kottayam District, Kerala, India Landslides are one of the natural disasters which account for huge damage of properties in terms of direct and indirect risk (Dai et al., 2002). The ter...
Accurate weather modeling is essential for companies to properly forecast renewable energy production and plan for natural disasters. Ineffective and... 7 MIN READ Apr 03, 2023 Just Released: NVIDIA HPC SDK v23.3 Version 23.3 expands platform support and provides minor updates to the NVIDIA ...
The book deals primarily with the aspects like energy resources and its proper utilization, disposal of various forms of wastes and its effects and effects of major catastrophic events like nuclear disasters, global warming, etc. It also deals with the choice of suitable disposal sites for solid ...
Recent events of land subsidence in culturally and tourism-centric Joshimath town in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand culminate in declaring the town as a landslide/subsidence 'hit zone' area. The area is highly vulnerable to various geological and hydrological disasters stemming from its rugged te...
Baiu heavy rainfall for the first time, which may have induced recent meteorological disasters in East Asia. To obtain robust results from the long-term satellite precipitation radar datasets, we calculated the rainfall frequencies with several threshold values: 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 10.0, and 20.0 mm/...
News outlets cannot provide wide coverage of all Earth’snatural disasters. For this reason, epic events can fall through the cracks. Recent times saw the southern hemisphere’s worst weather-related crisis, the birth of a century-long oil spill, and one of the biggest evacuations in history...
IPCC. Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (eds Field, C. B. et al.) (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012). Alexander, L. V. et al. Global observed changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitation. J. Geophys...