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Disaster Research Programme, JNU
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    • About SCDR
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    • FORMER RESEARCH GROUP
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 Changing epistemology of land-use, urbanisation and its effect on disasters

Changing epistemology of land-use, urbanisation and its effect on disasters

November 29, 2018

The change in the epistemology of land use can be viewed in terms of two phases: pre-liberalisation and post-liberalisation. In the pre-liberalisation phase, that is, the period starting from [...]

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 As Kerala Drowns We Look for the Machine and the Human in Early Warning Systems

As Kerala Drowns We Look for the Machine and the Human in Early Warning Systems

August 20, 2018

Kerala Floods not for the first time: Kerala floods resurfaced after 1924 and have again caught unawares the modern technology systems boastful of their might and their superior grip. Just as the [...]

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 The Man Made Menace of Urban Floods: Law, Development and Community

The Man Made Menace of Urban Floods: Law, Development and Community

May 9, 2018

The world is witnessing rapid urbanisation. More than half of the world population today resides in cities, towns and rapidly coming up urban agglomerations. The major urbanisation is happening [...]

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Legal challenges in mainstreaming Disaster into Development

April 23, 2018

The Disaster Management Act (2005) in Section 39 (2) states that every department of the government of state should “integrate into its developmental plans and projects, the measures of disaster [...]

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Re-visiting Preparedness from Disaster Risk Reduction Perspective

April 15, 2018

  The first South Asian Annual Disaster Management Exercise (SAADMex- 2015) hosted by the Government of India culminated with the South Asian countries coming to a common consensus for the [...]

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 Natural Disasters and Popular Culture: Never Addressing the Elephant in the Room

Natural Disasters and Popular Culture: Never Addressing the Elephant in the Room

October 12, 2017

Popular Culture mainly refers to culture which is based on the tastes and preferences of ordinary people rather than educated elites. In India, hindi movies form the major bulwark of the popular [...]

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Exacerbations by Growing Population

November 29, 2016

The synthesis of proliferated population structure, process of rapid urbanization and concerns stemming like congestion, haphazard and unplanned structures compounded with filling up of natural [...]

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 Floods and Fashion

Floods and Fashion

November 29, 2016

Floods and Fashion The idea of floods often covers our mind with the thoughts of knee deep water clogging the streets and vehicles honking to get way. Worse still, getting stuck and vehicles [...]

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 Clothes Need to be Practical

Clothes Need to be Practical

November 29, 2016

‘Clothes Maketh a Man’, the Bard said and its true we often judge a person by his/ her clothes.  In our class-conscious society, we pigeon-hole people based on whether he wears [...]

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About Us

A new academic research Centre at JNU which is also the first transdisciplinary research Centre has finally arrived on the JNU turf. The academic environment at JNU is already multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary at every centre but the new centre which has been given the name ‘Special Centre for Disaster Research’ is transdisciplinary in nature

blogs
  • Changing epistemology of land-use, urbanisation and its effect on disasters
    Changing epistemology of land-use, urbanisation and its effect on disasters
    November 29, 2018
  • As Kerala Drowns We Look for the Machine and the Human in Early Warning Systems
    As Kerala Drowns We Look for the Machine and the Human in Early Warning Systems
    August 20, 2018
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