We Can't Stop Disasters, But Lives Can Be Saved By Reducing Their Impact: DU Professor

ETV Bharat / state

We Can't Stop Disasters, But Lives Can Be Saved By Reducing Their Impact: DU Professor

Professor Bindhy Wasini Pandey, director of the Centre for Himalayan Studies, said forecasting and monitoring systems are being developed to minimise life and property losses.

New Delhi: The devastating flash floods in Uttarakhand's Dharali and other regions in the Himalayas have brought the environmental crisis back to the forefront, and Professor Bindhy Wasini Pandey, a specialist in mountain ecology and the director of the Centre for Himalayan Studies at the University of Delhi (DU), told ETV Bharat about her department's initiative to thwart the same.

The centre is conducting extensive research to mitigate the impact of disasters such as glacier melting, lake format