Publication

11.01.2013

Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia

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This issue focuses on how local communities in six countries in south-east Asia are managing risk; how they are coping with and preparing for possible disaster in their villages; how people living on the flood plains of the Brahmaputra-Jamuna river in Bangladesh are coping with annual flooding; and how rice farmers in Hambantota district, Sri Lanka are dealing with increasing soil salinity.

Read more: Building resilience, reducing risk : http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/pdf/outputs/ids/protifolon_3.pdf

TAGS:

  • Climate change adaptation
  • Disaster risk management
  • farming
  • Flooding