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Assessing Current & Future Tropical Cyclone Vulnerability in East India (PREFUS)

Project overview

This Leverhulme-funded project investigated the drivers of resilience of crop lands to tropical cyclones. We focussed on a case study of Kendrapara, Odisha in East India. PREFUS focussed specifically on identifying where (and why) rice croplands withstand or recover rapidly from tropical cyclone impacts such that there is little or no harm to livelihoods, food security and economic development in the region.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Jadu Dash

Professor of Remote Sensing
Research interests
  • Satellite derived land surface phenology and its validation with ground data
  • Developing a chlorophyll content based production efficiency model to quantify terrestrial carbon uptake
  • Impact of extreme climatic events on vegetation phenology
Connect with Jadu

Email: J.DASH@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Emma Tompkins PhD

Prof of Geog, Environment & Development
Research interests
  • How households and businesses are adapting to climate and weather hazards
  • Monitoring real-time adaptation to hydro-meteorological/climate hazards,  (including compound and cascading hazards)
  • Methods to assess the effectiveness of climate adaptations
Connect with Emma

Email: E.L.Tompkins@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

John Duncan, Emma Tompkins, Jadunandan Dash & Basundhara Tripathy, 2017, Ecology and Society, 22(4)
DOI:
Type: article
J.M.A. Duncan, J. Dash & Emma L. Tompkins, 2017, AIMS Agriculture and Food, 2(2), 165-182
DOI:
Type: article
John M.A. Duncan, J. Dash & Emma L. Tompkins, 2014
Type: bookChapter