Asian
Early Warning Systems: A View
Southasiadisasters.net
issue no. 170, June 2018:
AIDMI’s
publication of Southasiadisasters.net on ‘Asian Early Warning Systems’ Launched
at AMCDRR 2018 Side Event on Trans-Border Flood Early Warning System for Last
Mile Connectivity, July 4, 2018 at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
This issue highlights the various
aspects of early warning systems in India and South Asia such as leveraging
social media for early warning, early warning in hilly regions, community participation
in early warning, etc. This issue also highlights how there are gaps in
effective implementation of people-centred, multi-hazard warning systems and
what can be done to seamlessly integrate risk knowledge and impact information
into such early warning mechanisms.
This issue's contents includes: (i) Regional Collaboration
for better Flood Early Warning and Resilience in India; (ii) Reducing the Fear
of Getting Isolated during Disaster: Innovative solution by Oxfam India to
ensure active participation of women in EWS for flood; (iii) Twitters and Early
Warning Systems: Limits and Potential for India; (iv) Early Warning for Floods
in South Asia; (v) Early Warning System (EWS) and Community Resilience to
Floods; (vi) Planning Early Flood Warning Across India, Nepal and Bangladesh
Rivers: A View; (vii) Role of EWS on Floods: A View from Bihar; (viii) Community Perception Changes for
Disaster Risk Reduction Management after Srinagar Floods–2014; and (ix) EWS for
Floods: A View from Himalayas.
Some of the best thinkers, researchers, experts, and
activists, including Mihir R. Bhatt with AIDMI Team; Amitabh Behar, CEO, Oxfam
India, and Andrio Naskar, Manager, India Humanitarian Programme, Oxfam India,
Kolkata, West Bengal; Puneet Agarwal, and Jun Zhuang, Department of Industrial
and Systems Engineering University, Buffalo, New York, USA; Mandira Singh
Shrestha, Programme Coordinator: Hi–RISK, International Centre for Integrated
Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal; Dr. Amita Singh, Professor of
Law & Governance, Chairperson, Special Centre for Disaster Research,
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi; Rajeev Jha, DRR Specialist, and
Swati Chhibber, Partnership Development Manager, Practical Action, New Delhi; Sanjay
Pandey, Executive Director, and Salony Vyas, Intern, Yuganter, Bihar; Bupinder
Zutshi, Professor, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi; and Dr. Bhanu Mall, Secretary, Purvanchal Garmin
Vikas Sangathan (PGVS), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
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