iL-Disaster Risk Reduction and Management

Legislation

• NDRRM Act

Country Profiles, Fact Sheets, Statistics and Indicators

• Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) (2016) Disaster risk profile-Mauritius, World Bank Group (2016)
• Drought Resilience Profiles | Mauritius, Southern Africa Drought Resilience Initiative (SADRI)
• INFORM Risk Country Risk Profile
• Earthquakes: Facts or Fiction
• IPCC Fact Sheets

Technical Reports

• Land Drainage Masterplan
• Global Natural Disaster Assessment Report (2021)
• Gunlach, E.R. and Murday, M. (1987). Coastal Sensitivity Atlas of Mauritius for Oil Spill Response. Technical report, Ministry of Housing, Land and the Environment,
• Capacity for Disaster Reduction Initiative - CADRI (2020) Mauritius diagnosis report; Disaster risk management—A capacity diagnosis, UNDP
• National Disaster Scheme: NDS EDITION
• Cadri Report
• Cadri Policy
• National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management 2020 - 2030: Policy;  Strategic Framework; Action Plan; (2021)
• Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030
• Policy Review and Action Plan Formulation
• Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft, 2024. World Risk Report, s.l.: Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft. Ruhr University Bochum – Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV)
• Republic of Mauritius, 2022. The Midterm Review of the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
• Republic of Mauritius Voluntary National Report, s.l.: National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Centre.
• United Nations Development Programme, 2023. Inauguration of the Quatre Soeurs Refuge Centre. [Online]                                         
• World Bank (2016) GFDRR annual report 2016: bringing resilience to scale (English). Washington: World Bank Group.
• Skybrary (2024) Saffir–Simpson Hurricane wind scale (SSHWS).
• Wakashio Investigation Report, 2021
• MV Wakashio
• MV Benita
• Fish analysis-MV Wakashio (Communique) [Ministry of Blue Economy…] 8 Sept 2020
• International Organization for Migration, 2016. Assessing the Evidence: Opportunities and Challenges of Migration in Building Resilience against Climate Change in the Republic of Mauritius.   
• South West Indian Ocean Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative, World Bank, 2017.
• NASA. Image of the Day for January 17, 2024: Tropical Cyclone Belal. 17 January 2024.
• UN OCHA. Mauritius: Cyclone Season - Flash Update No. 1 (16 January 2024).  
• Screening Exercise at Pointe D'Esny
  Risk Management Policy 
• Drainage Impact Assessment (DIA) guidelines
• Review of Mauritius: UNISDR Working Papers on Public Investment Planning and Financing Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction,  Feb 2015

Others

• Capacity building
• Climate modelling and analysis
• Climate modelling and analysis
• Climate variability and change
• Database on Climate-related Risk Drivers
• Drafting of DDR Strategy for ROM
• DRR Action plan
• Economic and social impacts of natural hazard
• Field survey and data validation
• Flood and Landslide risk assessment
• Flood hazard and vulnerability assessment
• Flood Hazard assessment
• Geo Database and spatial infrastructure for RoM
• Landslide hazard assessment
• Landslide hazard vulnerability assessment
• List of Cyclones - Mauritius Meteorological Services (MMS)   
• List of Evacuee Centres (Google access)
• List of Recreational Centres (Google access)
• Protocol applicable during Natural Disasters (Google access)
• PROTOCOL ON HEAVY/TORRENTIAL RAIN AND TROPICAL STORMS / CYCLONES FOR THE PUBLIC SECTOR

Books and Chapter of Books

• Climate Change 2021: The physical science basis (AR6).  Matthews JBR, Maycock TK, Waterfield T, Yelekçi O, Yu R, Zhou B (eds) Contribution of working group I to the Sixth Assessment report of the Intergovernmental panel o climate change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 3–32.
• IPCC, 2021: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S.L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M.I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J.B.R. Matthews, T.K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu, and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 3?32, doi:10.1017/9781009157896.001.

Research Publications

2024

• Perception and community input towards flash flood management in Mauritius Island, M.D. Nowbuth, C. Spataru, M. Esteban, and P. Carvalho, Natural Hazards, pp.1-31.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-024-06777-w 

• Community-Based Strategies for Disaster Preparedness in Mauritius, H.H. Neerunjun, Journal of Advanced Research in Natural and Applied Sciences, 10(1), pp.134-149.

• Evolution in Coastal Vulnerability Assessment Tools of the Small Island Developing States in the Atlantic, Indian Ocean and South China Sea Region: A Review, C Bokhoree, R Sunkur, V Coolen, T Makoondlall-Chadee, International Journal Of Coastal, Offshore And Environmental Engineering (2023)

2022

• Jay R.S. Doorga, Leonard Magerl, Priyal Bunwaree, Jiaxin Zhao, Sophia Watkins, Caroline G. Staub, Soonil D.D.V. Rughooputh, Tyagaraja S.M. Cunden, Roddy Lollchund, Ravindra Boojhawon, GIS-based multi-criteria modelling of flood risk susceptibility in Port Louis, Mauritius: Towards resilient flood management, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Volume 67, January 2022, 102683

• Anish Arvind Hebbar and Ishara Gihan Dharmasiri, (2022) Management of marine oil spills: A case study of the Wakashio oil spill in Mauritius using a lens-actor-focus conceptual framework, Ocean & Coastal Management, Volume 22, , 15 April 2022, 106103; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2022.106103 - March 2022

• Dudley T. K. W., Jeetendre N., Dhunput S., Hemant B. C. (2022) An investigation on the effectiveness of the Marshall Plan in alleviating poverty in Mauritius. International Journal of Social Sciences and Management Review, 05(06), 56-71

2021

• Assessment of disaster risk reduction practices in Mauritius, E. Ruchama and K. Ansaram, Handbook of Climate Change Management: Research, Leadership, Transformation, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 3533-3559.

• Reena H. SeebocusI; Michel R. LollchundI; Miloud BessafiII (2021) Analysis of extreme rainfall and drought events using statistical and fractal methods: A case study of Mauritius, S. Afr. j. sci. vol.117 n.9-10 Pretoria Sep./Oct. 2021
• Sumner, P.D., Rughooputh, S.D., Boojhawon, R., Dhurmea, K., Hedding, D.W., le Roux, J., Pasnin, O., Tatayah, V., Zaynab, A., Nel, W., (2021). Erosion studies on Mauritius: overview and research opportunities. SAGJ 103 (1), 65–81.

2020

• Learning from risk reduction pilot projects for enhancing long-term adaptation governance: The case of Mauritius Island (Indian Ocean), A. Anisimov, A.K. Magnan, and V.K. Duvat, Environmental Science & Policy, 108, pp.93-103.

• Assessment of coastal risk reduction and adaptation-labelled responses in Mauritius Island (Indian Ocean), V.K. Duvat, A. Anisimov, and A.K. Magnan, Regional Environmental Change, 20(4), p.110.

2019

• Capacity Building at the Community Level in the Face of Disaster Risk Reduction in Mauritius, N.K. Betchoo, Strengthening Disaster Resilience in Small States: Commonwealth Perspectives, p.143. 

• Dhurmea K, Boojhawon R, Rughooputh S. (2019) A drought climatology for Mauritius using the standardized precipitation index. Hydrolog Sci J. 2019;64(2):227-240., https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2019.1570209
• Marsala, V., Galli, A., Paglia, G., & Miccadei, E. (2019). Landslide susceptibility assessment of Mauritius Island (Indian ocean). Geosciences, 9(12), 493.

2018

• Recovery and resilience of communities in flood risk zones in a small island developing state: A case study from a suburban settlement of Port Louis, Mauritius, A. Chacowry, L.J. McEwen, and K. Lynch, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 28, pp.826-838.

• Developing a model of community participation in disaster management in Mauritius, N.K. Betchoo, Journal of Multidisciplinary Engineering Science and Technology, 5(12), pp.9172-9175.

2016

• Public perceptions of living with flood risk from media coverage in the small island developing state of Mauritius, A. Chacowry, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 19, pp.303-310.

• Nel, W., Hauptfleisch, A., Sumner, P. D., Boojhawon, R., Rughooputh, S. D. D. V., & Dhurmea, K. R. (2016). Intra-event characteristics of extreme erosive rainfall on Mauritius. Physical Geography, 37(3–4), 264–275. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723646.2016.1189756

2014

• Community recovery and resilience building in the aftermath of flood hazards in the small island developing state of Mauritius, A. Chacowry, Doctoral dissertation, University of Gloucestershire
• Y Beeharry, T Makoondlall-Chadee, C Bokhoree, Policy analysis for performance assessment of integrated coastal zone management initiatives for coastal sustainability, APCBEE procedia 9, 30-35 (2014)

2012

• Nel, W.; Mongwa, T.; Sumner, P.; Anderson, R.; Dhurmea, K.; Boodhoo, Y.; Boojhawon, R.; Rughooputh, S.D.D.V. (2012) The Nature of Erosive Rainfall on a Tropical Volcanic Island with an Elevated Interior. Phys. Geogr. 2012, 33, 269–284.
• 2011
• Titov, V.V., Moore, C.W., Greenslade, D.J.M., C. Pattiaratchi, R. Badal, C. E. Synolakis & U. Kâno?lu (2011) A New Tool for Inundation Modeling: Community Modeling Interface for Tsunamis (ComMIT). Pure Appl. Geophys. 168, 2121–2131 (2011)

2010

• M Bhankaurally, MD Nowbuth, B Umrikar (2010) Flood hazard mapping by integrated GIS model, International journal of Geomatics and Geosciences 1 (3), 489-498
• Nigel, R., Rughooputh, S.D.D.V (2010) Mapping of monthly soil erosion risk of mainland Mauritius and its aggregation with delineated basins, Geomorphology 114 (3), 101-114
• Nigel, R.; Rughooputh, S.D.D.V. (2010) Soil erosion risk mapping with new datasets: An improved identification and prioritisation of high erosion risk areas. Catena, 82, 191–205. [Google Scholar]

2009

• S Rughooputh, R Nigel, H Runghen, K Gooniah, M Bhuruth, F Nathire (2009) Integrating Disaster-management Information: Mauritius Sharing Innovative Experiences Volume 12 (ISSN: 1728-4171), 99-118
• H. Runghen, M. Bhuruth, S.D.D.V. Rughooputh (2009) A Digital Oil Spill Sensitivity Atlas for Mauritius using GIS,  GIS Development, Volume 1, Issue 21, 2009
• Nigel, R.; Rughooputh, S.D.D.V. (2009) A Landslide Potentiality Mapping on Mauritius Island. Geospatial world (online).

2008

• Nigel, R.; Rughooputh, S.D.D.V. (2008) A Water Accumulation Flooding Potentiality Index (WAFPI) for rating the risk of flooding- A case study of Mauritius Island. Univ. Mauritius Res. J., 14, 93–111. [

2007

• Perry, S. D. (2007). Tsunami Warning Dissemination in Mauritius. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 35(4), 399–417.  

2006

• Rughooputh, S.D.D.V., Badal, R., Nigel, R., Runghen, H., Motah, B. and Bissessur,D. (2006). Tsunami preparedness map for Mauritius and Rodrigues. Prepared for the Prime Minister’s Office, Government of Mauritius

2005

• Le Roux, J.J., Sumner, P.D. and Rughooputh, S.D.D.V. (2005). Erosion modelling and soil loss prediction under changing land use for a catchment on Mauritius. South African Geographical Journal, 87:29-140.

2004

• Okal EA, Sladen A, Okal EA-S. (2006) Rodrigues, Mauritius, and Réunion Islands Field Survey after the December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. Earthquake Spectra. 2006; 22(3_suppl):241-261. doi:10.1193/1.2209190