| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 181 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps |
| Contents |
A. Dedication -- B. Preface -- C. List of figures -- D. List of tables -- E. Author's profile -- 1. Global disaster perspective -- Global natural risk specific profiles -- 2. The definition of disaster: its relationship with human development -- Definition -- Types of disasters -- Relationship between disaster and human development -- Disaster management cycle -- 3. Causes and effects of various types of disasters -- Water and climate related disasters -- Geosciences related disasters -- Industrial, nuclear and chemical disasters -- Accident-related disasters -- Biological disasters -- Disasters caused due to social, ethnic and religious conflicts -- 4. Engineering and technical aspects of disasters -- Disasters caused due to engineering and technical failure -- Earthquake engineering -- Coastal engineering -- Technology and disaster management -- Quantitative risk assessment -- Pollution control and monitoring -- 5. Environmental aspects of disasters -- Introduction -- A case study of arsenic contamination in west Bengal -- Applied ecology, environmental chemistry -- toxicology -- geology -- remote sensing -- economics -- 6. Urban disasters -- Introduction -- Selected city specific vulnerability -- 7. Climate change -- Introduction -- Probable impacts of climate change -- Greenhouse gases -- Responses to climate change -- 8. Impact of disasters -- Introduction -- Assessment of disaster impacts using modern technologies -- 9. Human rights in disaster management -- Sphere standard -- 10. Disaster and government's response -- High powered committee on disaster management in India -- Disaster management act 2005 -- Tsunami warning center -- National cyclone risk mitigation project -- The national building code (nbc) in India -- 11. Responding to disasters -- Disaster management -- Response and rehabilitation after disasters -- 12. Hunger and disaster -- 13. General observations -- A. References |
| Summary |
"Disaster Science and Management has been written based on an extensive library research and with an empirical insight on response to disasters in various cultural and social contexts in India. The book has essentially six components: understanding of disasters and their relationship with human development; the international code of conduct and minimum standard of humanitarian response; the science of disasters; the Government of India's efforts in minimizing disaster losses; management of disasters; and real life case studies of responses after disasters, including disaster risk reduction by the poor and vulnerable. Disaster Management has become an integral part of the curriculum in Engineering, Management, Social science, Economics and Rural Development Courses in India. The book has several examples of "good and not so good" practices of all stage of the disaster management cycle which comes from the experiential perspective the author has gained through his involvement in managing most types of disasters. Policy makers, executioners and the academia will find this book useful as there is no dichotomy between development and disaster management; both attempt to improve peoples' abilities to absorb macro and micro shocks." |
| Notes |
Title from title page [viewed March, 2015] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-181) |
| Subject |
Disasters.
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Emergency management.
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disasters.
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Disasters
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Emergency management
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781259061301 |
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1259061302 |
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