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Disaster Management

'DISASTER MANAGEMENT' covers the essentials of the newly emerging topic taking into consideration the requirement and background of the administrators, policy makers, academicians and students. It has been designed keeping in view the difficulties an administrator may face having little or no knowledge of disasters and their mitigation strategies. Moreover, keeping in view the constraints a Civil Servicing encounters, the book has been rendered a synoptic structure to facilitate easy access and relevant importation. "DISASTER MANAGEMENT" is a desktop reference for all management consultants, civil servants, elected representatives and policymakers. It is must table book for all Civil Servants, Members of Parliament, Members of Legislative Assemblies, and Management Consultants. This book has been organized to concisely promote sequential learning of the issues and presents concepts that form the knowledge base for an understanding of our environment. For too long, we have acted without due consideration of the consequences of our actions. It is now time for us to recognize our responsibility towards safeguarding the future health of our own Earth. Besides, some of the topics and perspectives that have been covered for the first time in any such book in India, such as Space Disaster, Information Epidemics as Disasters, Cyber Disaster such as Disasters as Catalysts for Innovation, Gamification of Disaster Management, Eco-Friendly Disaster Management, Crowdsourced Disaster Response, Emotional Resilience Training, Disaster Education through Storytelling, Inclusive Disaster Management, Art and Disasters, Disaster Diplomacy, Disasters and the Circular Economy The topics of disaster (which have been introduced in the new syllabus of UPSC GS mains), updated with the latest information that will help you to explore the issues in more depth. The book serves as an encyclopedia of all disasters which someone must have on the table to know about it. , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Meet The Author

K Siddhartha

Theme of the proposed book

SIMPLIFY THE COMPLEX UNDERSTANDING OF CAUSES, MITIGATION AND MANAGEMENT OF DISASTER

Focus audience

Desk Top reference for Administrators, Policy makers, Academicians and Students.

AIM

Create, generate and play on the new founded interest of the masses

USP

A complete desk top reference for everyone willing to get a peep into disasters their economic, ethical and management perspective. A QR code directed video discussion on all disasters and their mitigation in the form of a series of discussions,, debate and speeches.

Salient Features of ‘DISASTER MANAGEMENT’

  • Exhaustive coverage of the disasters and their concept from an Indian as well as western perspective.
  • Basic concept at the beginning of each chapter
  • Coverage of recent disasters and lessons learnt from them
  • Coverage of administrative and community perspectives of disaster management
  • Illustration in the form of diagrams and tables
  • Interrelation of topics in a multidisciplinary manner
  • Insightful case studies and importations in the form of boxes in each chapter
  • Completely updated and applied

The books is complete in every respect and serves as a field guide for every administrator, academician, policy maker in as it covers exhaustively the entire of Disaster Management which include:

 CONTENTS

  • Disaster Management in India
  • Ethics of Natural Event, Hazard and Disaster
  • Geological Disasters:
    • Earthquakes
    • Volcanism
    • Tsunami
    • Landslide
    • Avalanche
    • Glacier Hazard
    • Coastal or Sea Erosion
  • Meteorological Disasters:
    • Cyclones
    • Tornado
    • Hailstorm
    • Cloud Burst
    • Thunderstorm & Lightning
    • Atmospheric Hazards: Heat Wave
    • Blizzards
    • Cold Wave
  • Environmental Disasters:
    • Flood
    • Drought
    • Desertification
    • Forest Fires
  • Industrial Disasters
    • Industrial Mishaps
    • Dam Failure
  • Nuclear and Radiological Disasters
  • Accident Related Disasters:
    • Forest and Range Fires
    • Urban Fires
    • Village Fires
    • Bridge Collapse
    • Road Accidents
  • Aviation Disaster
  • Space Disaster
  • Biological Disasters
    • Livestock Related Disasters
    • Agro-terrorism
  • Information Epidemics as Disasters
  • Cyber Disaster
  • Disaster Management in India
  • New perspectives on Disasters and Disaster Management
  • GLOSSARY

AUTHORS

  • K. Siddhartha, EARTH SCIENTIST & STRATEGIC THINKER, UAE and India
  • Naleen Chandra (TECHNOLOGY) Avionics and Space Scientist, Bangalore
  • S. Mukherjee, (ACADEMICS) Geographer and Author, HP
  • Ankush Bhandari-(TECHNOLOGY) IT & Cyber Security, USA
  • Kumar Vivek (CIVIL SERVICES) Columbia University
  • Vedant Ojha, (CIVIL SERVICES)
  • Aparna Bera, (ACADEMICS) Prof South Asian Institute for Regional Development, Kolkata
  • Avadhesh Kumar, (ACADEMICS) Asstt Professor IIT Roorkee

 

Recent legislations and bodies at centre and state levels for effective disaster mitigation

Do’s and Don’ts during various hazards in the form of boxes

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