Disaster Risk and Impact Management: Approaches, Tools and Strategies
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Disaster Risk and Impact Management: Approaches, Tools and Strategies

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Disaster Risk and Impact Management: Approaches, Tools and Strategies

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Disaster is any occurrence that causes damage, ecological disruption, loss of human life and deterioration of health and health services on a scale sufficient to warrant an extraordinary response from outside the affected community. A disaster as an occurrence such as hurricane, tornado, storm, flood, high water, wind driven water, tidal wave, earthquake, drought, blizzard, pestilence, famine, fire, explosion, volcanic eruption, building collapse, transportation wreck, or other situation that causes human suffering or creates human needs that the victims cannot alleviate without assistance.The present book "Disaster Risk and Impact Management: Approaches, Tools and Strategies" comprises of three sections: Disaster Risks: Overview, Case Studies and Strategic Approaches. Experts in the relevant fields have given critical appraisal of the various aspects of disasters risk and its management. The scientists, teachers, scholars, administrators and policy makers dealing with disaster risk and impact management find this book very useful and informative.Dr. Anil Kumar Gupta, Head – Division of Policy Planning, National Institute of Disaster Management, New Delhi, India (Former Reader & Head, Director, Institute of Environment & Development Studies, Bundelkhand University, Uttar Pradesh, India).Dr. Vinod K. Sharma is Senior Professor, Disaster Management at Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi and Executive Vice Chairman, Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority and Vice Chancellor of Devi Ahilya University Indore.Sreeja S. Nair, Consortium Coordinator, Myanmar Consortium for Disaster Risk Reduction Capacity Building, Yangon, Myanmar (Assistant Professor, National Institute of Disaster Management, New Delhi).

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Editors
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Foreword
  8. Introduction
  9. Contents
  10. List of Contributors
  11. (Disaster Risks: Overview)
  12. 1. Disaster Risk Management for Sustainability
  13. 2. Climatic Effects of Increasing Concentrations of Atmospheric Methane
  14. 3. Coastal and Sea Erosion: Risk Profile dand Mitigation Strategies
  15. 4. Bioterrorism: A Technological Hazard for Ecology and Mankind
  16. (Case Studies)
  17. 5. Space Application in Disaster Assessment and Mitigation: Case of Haryana State
  18. 6. Drought Occurrences and Management in Kenya
  19. 7. Approach to Landslides Risk Management: Case from Earthquake
  20. 8. Empowerment Planning as a Strategy in Drought Management
  21. 9. Application of Mulches in Conservation Dry Areas
  22. 10. Utilization of Rainfed areas through Agroforestry
  23. 11. Choice Experiment Method to Inform Flood Risk Reduction Policies
  24. 12. Watershed Management: An Integrated Mission
  25. 13. Hazardous Waste: Treatment and Disposal Technique
  26. (Strategic Approaches)
  27. 14. Community Based Risk and Vulnerability Assessment
  28. 15. Toxicological Approach to Environmental Risk Management
  29. 16. Health Impacts of Natural Disasters: Environmental and Emergency Response
  30. 17. Role of Stakeholders in Disaster Responses