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Natural Hazards and Disaster Management: Vulnerability and Mitigation

 
R B Singh (Editor)
Synopsis Disaster management is a multidisciplinary area, covering a wide rang of issues such as monitoring, forecasting, evacuation, search and rescue, relief, reconstruction and rehabilitation. It also requires multi-sectoral governance as a scientists, planners, volunteers and communities all have important roles to play. These role and activities span the pre, during and post-disaster phases. Besides, shift of emphasis from disaster response to risk reduction has opened up areas of exploratory research in the subject. Vulnerability refers to the susceptibility of a community to a hazard. Vulnerability analysis seeks to predict disasters by ensuring timely preparedness on the part of people and institutions and concerned government agencies. The emerging arena of disaster mitigation is also becoming an integral aspect of development planning, policy formulation and implementation. This is where this book comes in. it contains 22 chapters in the form of conceptual and empirical case studies from India and other developed countries. The blend of theory, research and policy makes this book eminently worthwhile for anyone interested in disaster vulnerability and mitigation together with monitoring and forecasting and policy perspectives. It would be useful for students, researchers and teachers of geography, environmental studies, disaster management, civil engineering and policy science.
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About the author

R B Singh

R.B. Singh is Senior Faculty and Deputy Coordinator, UGC-DRS Programme, Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Apart from being the Vice Chair of Steering Committee of the IGU Commission on Biogeography and Biodiversity, he is presently the member of the IUGG-IGU National Committee of INSA and Secretary General, NAGI. He has to his Credit 34 Books and about 160 Research papers. He has also presented papers in international seminars in more than 30 Countries on issues related to emerging frontiers of Geography like disaster management, GIS, remote sensing, Environmental studies, Climatic variability and Urban and regional development. The UNESCO/ISSC (Paris) awarded him 1998 Research and Study Grants Award in Social and Human Sciences. 

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Bibliographic information

Title Natural Hazards and Disaster Management: Vulnerability and Mitigation
Author R B Singh
Format Hardcover
Date published: 01.01.2006
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Rawat Publications
Language: English
isbn 8131600335
length xi+352p., Tables; Figures; Maps; References; 23cm.