Can cutting-edge innovations that integrate disaster risk reduction with climate change adaptation transform our views on risk from the standpoint of individuals, institutions and investments that shape resilience?

This issue of Southasiadisasters.net offers a range of such examples from India, prevalent not only in this country but all across South Asia. This issue’s contents include:

• Transformation: Initiatives Towards Resilience
• Achievements of IMD in Heat Wave Warning
• Heat Wave and Cities: How Karachi Leads
• Role of GUIDE in Disasters, Natural Resource Management and Habitat Conservation
• Gujarat Long Term Recovery
• Building Climate Resilient Communities in India
• Harnessing the Strengths and Capabilities of Emergency Responders