Temperatures on the rise: adapting to heat extremes in South Asia. Conversation on the Nordic Asia Podcast
Disaster Prevention and Management
ISSN: 0965-3562
Article publication date: 29 August 2023
Issue publication date: 5 December 2023
Abstract
Purpose
This conversation presents reflections on heatwaves, vulnerability and adaptation in South Asia.
Design/methodology/approach
This is based on the Nordic Asia Podcast on Temperatures on the Rise: Adapting to Heat Extremes in South Asia.
Findings
Main themes discussed in this conversation include vulnerability and adaptation, livelihoods and cascading disasters.
Originality/value
This conversations adds value to the ongoing discussions on climate justice, loss and damage.
Keywords
Acknowledgements
The authors thank Nordic Asia Podcast team and the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies for the permission to publish this transcript.
The authors' gratitude goes to Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Helene Ramnæs from the Norwegian Network for Asian Studies (Asianettverket) for coordinating the planning of this episode.
Emmanuel acknowledges financial support from the International Research Fund Denmark for the Research Project 2 granted on Disaster Risk Creation in Urban Resettlement Processes, grant number- 1028-00215B; Period: 2021–2025.
Chandni acknowledges financial support from British Academy's “Urban Infrastructures of Well-Being” programme, under the UK Government's Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) for the research project titled “Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture as Green Infrastructure: Implication on wellbeing and sustainability in the Global South”.
Citation
Raju, E., Singh, C. and Geschewski, H. (2023), "Temperatures on the rise: adapting to heat extremes in South Asia. Conversation on the Nordic Asia Podcast", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 32 No. 4/5, pp. 477-485. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-08-2023-0185
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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