Here is a commentary, "Why did India’s devastating Cyclone Fani kill only 40 people -- not 10,000? Thank democracy and technology," published in
Washington Post's Monkey Cage: "Why did India’s devastating Cyclone Fani kill only 40 people -- not 10,000? Thank democracy and technology<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/17/why-did-indias-devastating-cyclone-fani-kill-only-people-not-thank-democracy-technology/?utm_term=.319941591e66>." (If you cannot access it, please email me) Here is the abstract: "Can democracy and technology help poor countries adapt to extreme weather events? If we look at how one extremely poor state in India managed to save so many citizens from this spring’s devastating cyclone, we might conclude that the answer is yes." If you are interested in reading about the politics of climate change adaptation, this might interest you: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025739 Aseem ________________________________________________ Aseem Prakash<https://faculty.washington.edu/aseem/> Professor, Department of Political Science Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences Founding Director, UW Center for Environmental Politics<http://depts.washington.edu/envirpol/> University of Washington, Seattle https://faculty.washington.edu/aseem/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/SN4PR0801MB367834D24725349C6DE1EEA6DD060%40SN4PR0801MB3678.namprd08.prod.outlook.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
