Schoolchildren and businesses in Japan are working hard to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, a 15-year blueprint adopted at a UN conference in their country in 2015. Six years after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, the city of Sendai hosted a special symposium on disaster risk reduction where the Government... Read More

The Grenfell Tower fire occurred on 14 June 2017 at the 24-storey, 220-foot-high Grenfell Tower block of public housing flats in North-  West London. It caused at least 80 deaths and over 70 injuries The fire started in a fridge-freezer on the fourth floor. The growth of the fire is believed to have been accelerated by the building’s exterior cladding. The residents had earlier also raised... Read More

The flooding danger to parts of Pune with relatively small discharge of water from Khadakwasla dam, was highlighted in the new ‘Disaster Management Plan of PMC (Pune Municipal Corporation). The danger has been wrought due to encroachment and settlements in the riverbeds of the Mula-Muthu River and its tributaries reducing their water carrying capacity and... Read More

Disaster Management Institute, Bhopal in collaboration with various private security and fire/welfare agencies and NGO’s conducted a workshop on ‘Role of Private Security and Fire Professionals in Disaster Management’. The integration of over 300,000 private security and fire personnel in Madhya Pradesh into the role of Disaster Management with SDRF (State Disaster Response Force), will... Read More

 Spontaneous volunteers in large no’s offer real, heartfelt support in times of major disasters. Unfortunately most are untrained, posing serious problems by adding to the complexity of the situation.  Self-organizing on social media many even arrive on the scene whilst the responders are still assessing the situation. Alliance Manchester Business School developed Quality Standard ISO... Read More

The severe drought which Tamil Nadu is facing could have been predicted if credible data was available. Historically 2 years drought follows floods ( in December 2015). Unfortunately old historical hydrological data dating back to 19th century has been ill preserved and wasting in derelict libraries and locations.  Even the climate change report submitted by... Read More

Secretary – General Patteri Taalas of World Meteorological Organization (WMO) issued a stark warning at the lack of disaster early warning systems in over 100 countries, including the most vulnerable in Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific islands.  Governments have responsibility to save lives and property, and they must invest in early warning projects .The payback... Read More