Why did India’s devastating Cyclone Fani kill only 40 people -- not 10,000? Thank democracy and technology

[Aseem Prakash]

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."

(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    

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Aseem Prakash
Professor, Department of Political Science
Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences
Founding Director, UW Center for Environmental Politics
University of Washington, Seattle
https://faculty.washington.edu/aseem/