R. B. Singh

TL;DR: The International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (1990-1999) was one of the important international initiatives followed by the International strategy for disaster reduction (1999), the Yokohama Strategy (1994), the Hyogo Framework for Action (2005), and most recently the Sendai Framework, the Paris Agreement, and the Sustainable Development Goals (all in 2015).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated land use land cover change over four decades, based on Landsat satellite imagery for 1987, 1997, 2007 and 2017, for the Barddhaman district of West Bengal, India.

TL;DR: It is shown that rainfall modelled using CHIRPS corresponds well with the observational record in confirming the decreased annual and seasonal rainfall, and PERSIANN-CDR data show reduced annual and winter precipitation, although there is a trend (albeit not statistically significant) to higher rainfall after the marked dry period between 1998 and 2008.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the science, causes, impacts and risk reduction strategies for climate change and disasters, focusing on the use of traditional knowledge, new innovation and education to build a culture of safety and resilience at all levels in order to promote sustainable development goals in general and disaster risk reduction in particular.

TL;DR: In this article, the ecological integrity of mountain environments is increasingly threatened by global environmental changes including climate change to which physical and ecological systems in mountains are highly vulnerable, and global warming rates have been higher in mountain regions compared to the global mean and have strongly affected the cryosphere, mountain biota and ecosystem processes.