Disaster Management and Risk Reduction
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Disaster management and risk reduction is a comprehensive term and a burning topic particularly in the present span of time when the Earth is largely being affected by the severe hazards caused by the dominance of internal and external forces. The intensity and frequency of these hazards, as terrestrial and atmospheric, have been increased multifold during the last decades. Terrestrial hazards – earthquakes, volcanoes, and subsidence of landmasses; atmospheric hazards – mass movements, cloudbursts, lightening, debris flow, landslides, flash floods, and cyclones; and manmade hazards that are also called technological hazards are very prominent in all over the world. Increase in human population has enhanced environmental pollution that gave rise to global warming and climate change. All these given factors together led to catastrophic disasters.
The capacity of disaster management and risk reduction largely depends on the planning and policies intervention by the governments. Besides, resources in the forms of financial and technical inputs also play significant role in risk reduction.
Contents includes : Introduction to Disaster · Approaches to Disaster Management and Risk Reduction
· Classification of Hazards · Consequences of Natural Disasters · Disasters Management Cycle · Disaster Management · Disaster Risk Reduction · Disaster and Development
· Technologies for Disaster Management
· Media and Disaster Management
· Awareness Programmes for Disaster Management · Bibliography.
This book will be useful to teachers and students of Geography, Environment, Geology, policy makers, community people, and the researchers equally.
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| Author | Vishwambhar Prasad Sati |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN | 978-81-7910-429-3 |
| Language | English |
| Number Of Pages | xiv+161 |
| Publication Year | 2013 |
| Publisher | Aavishkar Publishers, Distributors, Jaipur |