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17.3.4 Benefits
By these efforts and quick responses of the Gram Pradhan and GTF members, communities could manage to evacuate safely from the village and reached Jalimnagar
Bridge with all required materials and established their shelter during flood period.
The flood water stayed in village for 2 days at the height of about 3–4 ft and started
reducing from 4 PM on 20 June 2013. There was no loss of lives due to the advance
information and improved coordination among community and local institutions.
17.4 Conclusion
Information on climate change is building a new perception of disasters as of our
own making. The increase in floods, storms, droughts and other hazards expected
to arise from the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as a result of
industrialization and deforestation is clearly not natural (UNISDR 2008). Most of
the literature and scientific consensus now confirms that no matter whatever we do
to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions, the human-induced changes in climate is
inevitable. So this brings forth the need for reduction in emissions and most importantly being prepared for changes holds the key.
Effective preparedness and early communication to these growing changes will
require strategies, institutions and structures that are robust under uncertainty. Moreover, as communities are directly getting affected, their own coping mechanisms,
capacities and willingness to adapt newer technologies are of extreme relevance and
need to be studied in detail. The traditional knowledge used as coping mechanisms
as also the new mechanisms developed over the years provide greater resilience to
the communities in times of growing climate threats. At the same time, it is equally
important to understand the existing policy regime in the context of lifeline communication systems like early warning mechanism in transboundary river systems with
a dynamic fluvial landscape and other overriding geopolitical concerns.
The robust EWS systems also present an opportunity to look into the feasibility
of ICT technology having strong human/community linkages for scaling up in other
regions with similar vulnerability, hazards and risks with a focus on transborder
water resources management for disaster risk reduction in times of changing climate.
However, there are several challenges in implementing EWS systems in a transborder
context and some of the actions required to strengthen the EWS systems could be as
follows.
Y. Shukla and B. Mall
17.3.4 Benefits
By these efforts and quick responses of the Gram Pradhan and GTF members, communities could manage to evacuate safely from the village and reached Jalimnagar
Bridge with all required materials and established their shelter during flood period.
The flood water stayed in village for 2 days at the height of about 3–4 ft and started
reducing from 4 PM on 20 June 2013. There was no loss of lives due to the advance
information and improved coordination among community and local institutions.
17.4 Conclusion
Information on climate change is building a new perception of disasters as of our
own making. The increase in floods, storms, droughts and other hazards expected
to arise from the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as a result of
industrialization and deforestation is clearly not natural (UNISDR 2008). Most of
the literature and scientific consensus now confirms that no matter whatever we do
to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions, the human-induced changes in climate is
inevitable. So this brings forth the need for reduction in emissions and most importantly being prepared for changes holds the key.
Effective preparedness and early communication to these growing changes will
require strategies, institutions and structures that are robust under uncertainty. Moreover, as communities are directly getting affected, their own coping mechanisms,
capacities and willingness to adapt newer technologies are of extreme relevance and
need to be studied in detail. The traditional knowledge used as coping mechanisms
as also the new mechanisms developed over the years provide greater resilience to
the communities in times of growing climate threats. At the same time, it is equally
important to understand the existing policy regime in the context of lifeline communication systems like early warning mechanism in transboundary river systems with
a dynamic fluvial landscape and other overriding geopolitical concerns.
The robust EWS systems also present an opportunity to look into the feasibility
of ICT technology having strong human/community linkages for scaling up in other
regions with similar vulnerability, hazards and risks with a focus on transborder
water resources management for disaster risk reduction in times of changing climate.
However, there are several challenges in implementing EWS systems in a transborder
context and some of the actions required to strengthen the EWS systems could be as
follows.