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Redefining India’s Build Back Better Imperative

Posted by Dr. Arvind Kumar
|Date: September 18, 2026
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Redefining India’s Build Back Better Imperative

Dr. Arvind Kumar* Across the world, the understanding of disaster risk is undergoing a fundamental transf ...

Dr. Arvind Kumar* Across the world, the understanding of disaster risk is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Hazards are no longer viewed as isolated natural events but as interconnected risks. ...

September 18, 2026
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Reimagining Climate Emergency due to Deluge and Despair

Posted by Dr. Arvind Kumar
|Date: August 14, 2025
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Reimagining Climate Emergency due to Deluge and Despair

Dr. Arvind Kumar* It's no longer a meteorological aberration; it is indeed a climate crisis in real time, ...

Dr. Arvind Kumar* It's no longer a meteorological aberration; it is indeed a climate crisis in real time, deserving immediate attention, scientific foresight, and political will, lest resilience give ...

August 14, 2025
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Rethinking Disaster Resilience

Posted by Dr. Arvind Kumar
|Date: April 04, 2025
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Rethinking Disaster Resilience

Dr. Arvind Kumar* We live in a world with increasingly interconnected and compounding risks and disasters ...

Dr. Arvind Kumar* We live in a world with increasingly interconnected and compounding risks and disasters affecting more and more communities, while also exacerbating existing inequalities. Understand ...

April 04, 2025
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Bridging Sectors for Safer Futures for Inclusive Disaster Risk Management

Posted by Dr. Arvind Kumar
|Date: November 02, 2024
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Bridging Sectors for Safer Futures for Inclusive Disaster Risk Management

Dr. Arvind Kumar* From deadly wildfires to devastating floods, disasters wreaked havoc across the world i ...

Dr. Arvind Kumar* From deadly wildfires to devastating floods, disasters wreaked havoc across the world in 2024, set to be the world’s hottest year on record. It shook millions of lives and caused bil ...

November 02, 2024
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Artificial Intelligence: Privilege or Plague?

Posted by Dr. Arvind Kumar
|Date: July 28, 2023
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Artificial Intelligence: Privilege or Plague?

Dr. Arvind Kumar* Artificial Intelligence is rapidly shaping the future of humanity across nearly every i ...

Dr. Arvind Kumar* Artificial Intelligence is rapidly shaping the future of humanity across nearly every industry. It is already the main driver of emerging technologies like big data, robotics and IoT ...

July 28, 2023
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Recalibrating India’s Climate Solidarity with Global South

Posted by Dr. Arvind Kumar
|Date: May 26, 2023
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Recalibrating India’s Climate Solidarity with Global South

Dr. Arvind Kumar* IPCC has warned that India—home to 20 percent of the world’s population—could face mul ...

Dr. Arvind Kumar* IPCC has warned that India—home to 20 percent of the world’s population—could face multiple climate change-induced disasters in the next two decades. In the African continent, meanw ...

May 26, 2023
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Is G20 India the Window to Strengthen Resilience for Disaster Risk Reduction?

Posted by Dr. Arvind Kumar
|Date: January 27, 2023
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Is G20 India the Window to Strengthen Resilience for Disaster Risk Reduction?

Dr. Arvind Kumar* From COVID-19 pandemic to violent conflicts, forced displacement and climate change, hu ...

Dr. Arvind Kumar* From COVID-19 pandemic to violent conflicts, forced displacement and climate change, humanity is badly affected. We have to work towards achieving disaster risk reduction goals and f ...

January 27, 2023
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Disaster Risk Reduction in a Tottering World

Posted by Dr. Arvind Kumar
|Date: November 04, 2022
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Disaster Risk Reduction in a Tottering World

Dr. Arvind Kumar The climate emergency continues to challenge existing norms and ways of working. Th ...

Dr. Arvind Kumar The climate emergency continues to challenge existing norms and ways of working. The recent IPCC reports and the Global Assessment Report made it clear that climate impacts will ...

November 04, 2022
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Climate Emergency: Clarion call for India?

Posted by Dr. Arvind Kumar
|Date: March 02, 2022
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Climate Emergency: Clarion call for India?

Dr. Arvind Kumar* Even if emissions are cut as promised in the Paris Agreement levels, there is the likel ...

Dr. Arvind Kumar* Even if emissions are cut as promised in the Paris Agreement levels, there is the likelihood that many parts of northern and coastal India reaching dangerously wet-bulb temperatures ...

March 02, 2022
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