REINFORCING DISASTER MITIGATION BY FORTIFYING HUMAN SECURITY: A LIVELIHOODS APPROACH

Abstract

A nation's growth is dependent on its human security. Its stock ( healthy well-nourished and productive people with adequal availability of food, supply of water and provision of safe shelter; defines the nation's human security. India has shown tremendou growth in human security in the past two decades with massiv strides being taken in reduction of poverty. -These strides an characterized by increased literacy and improved fooc consumption and access to health services. Spurred by ar accelerated growth of economic capital, more and more people are experiencing the benefits that the present has to offer. This economic progress was made possible in spite of the series of disasters, minor and major, man-made and natural that has struck the country in the past decade.