Pune: Spatio-temporal mapping by the National Institute of Caster Management (NIDM) has found that the biological disaster and the climate is put together in India more than five years between 2015 and 2020 compared to two periods of the previous 10 years (1995-2005 and 2005-2015).
Also, overall death between 1995 and 2020 was more caused by biological outbreaks than the climate disaster.
Three periods of time – 1995-2005, 2005-2015 and 2015-2020 – were chosen for studies of climate and biological disaster outbreaks in India.
According to analysis, climate disasters including floods, droughts, cyclones, heat waves and cold waves while biological disasters include diseases such as dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis and Covid-19.
However, the research team did not use Covid data for comparative analysis, because it was not reported in previous years.
Covid data is used as an event for each state in the composite analysis process in this study.
The analysis shows that the total number of climate and biological events recorded over three periods in India each of 594, 712 and 575 – the last period recorded more than 500 climate and biological disaster events in just five years.
This analysis also revealed that the case of dengue fever cases had shown an increasing trend, with the total number of annual events increased – 8.7 in 1995-2005 to 23.1 during 2005-2015 and 33.5.
Anil K Gupta, Coordinator of the Professor of the NIDM Technical Advisory Committee, told Tii, “In the last period, the average number of cases of dengue fever per year increased almost four times compared to the 1995-2005 period.
Twelve countries experienced more than 20 outbreaks JE and Dengue During 1995-2020.
Weather cycle changes and weakened immune systems can be responsible for the increase in the number of dengue cases.
“Analysis shows that biological disasters and climate showed an increase in trends during 2015-2020.
“Among climate disasters, droughts and cyclones have shown a significant increase in trends in the last period.
There is no disaster that shows the trend of decreasing this period,” Gupta said.
Spatial analysis of state-level composite in the study shows that eight of the 36 countries experienced more than 50 climate disasters during the study period.
The highest number of side effects related to the climate was recorded at Rajasthan (72), followed by Odisha (67), Uttar Pradesh (66), West Bengal (66), Bihar (64), Maharashtra (52) and Andhra Pradesh (52)).
Gupta said, “disaster risk reduction cannot be isolated from the development plan, because Lacunae in the latter is known to contribute to the climate disaster to a certain extent.
Ecosystem degradation in hilly areas, improper land use and wetland reduction play a major role in causing climate disasters .
Development Practices Thus must be reviewed, while disaster risk reduction must be integrated with development planning.
“He said biological disasters were also in the way the side effects of the climate disaster.
“For example, an area that is susceptible to high humidity and the flood situation has a high JE and Dengue incident.
This report can be used by government researchers and authorities to plan new strategies or tweak existing to reduce disaster risk,” he said.