Vulnerability to climatic and environmental disaster and change in the Indian Ocean World

• Main Authors: GOODING, Philip, WILLIAMSON, Fiona, BABIN, Julie
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Environmental Sciences; Physical and Environmental Geography
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/225; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1224/viewcontent/02_gooding_VulnerabilityClimatic_pvoa.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

At the time of writing (Autumn 2022), extreme weather is devastating large swathes of the Indian Ocean World (IOW). In Pakistan, especially around the Indus River in Balochistan and Sindh, floods are causing severe distress. So far, more than 1,300 people have been killed, half a million more have been left homeless and there has been around $30 billion worth of damage to infrastructure. Nevertheless, even as the floods are projected to worsen during the second half of the south-west monsoon season, there are already fights on multiple spatial scales to shape the narratives about the root causes of the devastation.