Hazard Risk Resilience Magazine Volume 1 Issue 2 | Page 23

23 As temperatures dip to 3-4 C in winter, people without electricity in this village in North East India have only one option to keep themselves warm: burning fire wood and agri-waste. Access to firewood makes them resilient to the immediate hazard of cold weather, but exposes them to long term-hazards emerging from air-borne diseases caused by pollution. Ankit Kumar