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Nov 10, 2022

Prevent bridge failures in India: Complex but possible

Existing safety regulations are highly prescriptive but are proving increasingly insufficient as societal and environmental risks become complex. The failure of bridges, specifically pedestrian footbridges in India, has been in the news following the October 30 collapse of the suspension bridge in Gujarat’s Morbi that left at 140 dead. Other incidents in recent memory are the Mumbai footbridge collapse in March 2019, the Darjeeling bridge collapse in 2011…

India

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India

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Oct 20, 2021

Urban planning lessons from the Kerala floods

Originally published as an opinion piece in Business Standard and PreventionWeb in October 2018 Urban planning must take center stage to move from a ‘prohibitory’ towards a more ‘regulated’ form of growth. The coverage of disasters in the media commences with the surge of the disaster, moving on to despair…

Kerala Flood

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Urban planning lessons from the Kerala floods
Urban planning lessons from the Kerala floods
Kerala Flood

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Oct 1, 2021

An incomplete guideline: Enabling India’s health facilities to cope with disasters

Originally published in the LEAP Journal in September 2018: https://blog.theleapjournal.org/2018/12/an-incomplete-guideline-enabling-indias.html Health facilities offer the first line of response in any disaster. Damage to hospitals impedes long-term recovery of victims. The recent floods in Kerala highlighted the frailty of health systems. The flood damaged a 125-year-old hospital that serves 3.5 lakh…

Public Health

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An incomplete guideline: Enabling India’s health facilities to cope with disasters
An incomplete guideline: Enabling India’s health facilities to cope with disasters
Public Health

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Oct 1, 2021

The Interview Hustle

Expanded from the original Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/SupriyaArKr09/status/1433531994055479298?s=20 The human ability to articulate our thoughts verbally has allowed us to develop a rich knowledge repository of experiences. …

Qualitative Research

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The Interview Hustle
The Interview Hustle
Qualitative Research

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Oct 15, 2018

Resilience and the “state” of know-how

An overview of open data roadblocks in resilient development for India In the Union Budget of 2018, investments in infrastructure received a strong thrust with the Hon. Finance Minister allocating USD 14.5 billion on infrastructure. A notably special allocation was made towards kick-starting a Coalition on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure for…

Climate Change

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Climate Change

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Supriya Krishnan

Supriya Krishnan

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Urbanist. Artist. Designer. All Uncertain. // www.supriyakrishnan.com

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