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Strategies for Sustainable Management of Disaster in India

Edited by B.N. Singh, Raj Kumar, Sarfaraz Alam, S.K. Singh and V.K. Kumra, Shree, 2011, xvi, 408 p, figs, tables, ISBN : 9788183293969, $125.00 (Includes free airmail shipping)

Strategies for Sustainable Management of Disaster in India

Contents: Preface. 1. Strategic management of disaster/Urmilesh Singh and Narendra Mohan Verma. 2. A study in the role of sustainable development approach in the prevention and mitigation of disaster : a holistic approach/Debdas Ganguly and Kaushik Kundu. 3. Disaster Vs economy drive : a chronological analysis of global disasters (from 20th century to till date)/Kusumakar Gautam, Akhilesh Chaubey, Dheeraj Kumar Verma, Ms. Safal Ambuhang Subba, Manish Kumar, Saket Kushwaha, Chandra Sen, Alok Rai and Rohan Rai. 4. Geography and disaster management/Narender Verma and Murareelal Meena. 5. Strategic management of disaster for sustainable development : risk assessment mitigation and management/Ajay Kumar Mishra, Ashutosh Kumar Singh and Shalini Srivastava. 6. Strategy for sustainable management of disasters in India/Ali Mohammad and Abdul Bari Naik. 7. Adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change/Raj Kumar and Priyanka Sharma Anand. 8. Managing social disasters for sustainable development : focus on domestic violence/Usha Kiran Rai, Monica Srivastava and Ranjana Pandey. 9. Recent flood of the Puthimari river in the Rangia region of Kamrup district in Assam, India and its consequences/Jyotishmoy Bora and Bimal Kumar Kar. 10. Opportunities in environmental management for disaster risk reduction/Arti Singh and Shilpam Chandra. 11. Essence and consequence of Bihar Government and UNDP disaster management Program (DMP) for diminution of natural disaster in Bihar/Prince Divakar Saxena. 12. Disaster risk management in mountains : a case for the Indian Central Himalayan region/Vishwambhar Prasad Sati. 13. Slow onset disasters, livelihoods and sustainability : some facts from field and emerging questions/Ravi S. Singh. 14. Risk assessment, mitigation and management of disaster : case of Kosi floods/Rakesh Kumar Sinha. 15. Role of microfinance in disaster management : potential, problems and prospects/Shweta Rai and Amrita Keshari. 16. Socio-economic aspects of disaster reduction and response/Avdesh Bhardawaj, Shukti Tomar and Anand Kumar Gupta. 17. Peoples participation in disaster management/Akbar Ali. 18. Strengthening community disaster coping mechanism through district and village disaster management planning and CBDRM/Gopal Krishna Pandey. 19. Social disaster : an outline/Abhjeet Singh and Tanuj Chandra. 20. Disaster management and its important elements/Ashok Kumar Sinha. 21. Managing disaster aftermath through psychological economical intervention/Alpana Mohan and Ishi Mohan. 22. State of sanitation in Varanasi city : a geographical study/Amrita Dwivedi and V.K. Kumra. 23. Development project and its impact on local economy and social conditions : a case study of Kolaghat Thermal Power Plant, Kolaghat, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal/Arindam Das Gupta and Sambhunath Dinda. 24. The tragedy of Copenhagen climate conference : the infinite saga of clash of interest/Bhaskar Chaudhuri. 25. Gender and sustainable development in mines sector in India/H.P. Mathur, R.S. Mishra and Irfan Ahmed Khan. 26. Climate change and India-issues and policy implications/R.S. Mishra and Irfan Ahmed Khan. 27. Role of water index insurance in managing climate risk/H.P. Mathur and Vinita Kalra. 28. South Asian tsunami 2004: a case study of tsunami disaster management in Sri-Lanka/Muraree Lal Meena, Chitra Meena and Narendra Verma. 29. Natural disaster and health management : a study of Bangladesh as post disaster approach/Niranjan Sahoo. 30. Awareness and implementation of disaster management strategies: a study of Vindhyachal Mandal/Raj Kiran Prabhakar and Apurba Mukherjee. 31. Strategic management of environment and disaster for sustainable development in the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra basin, India and its neighborhood/S.C. Mukhopadhyay. 32. Risk assessment for flood hazard through RS and GIS : a case study on southernmost blocks of the districts of 24 Parganas, West Bengal/Suman Paul. 33. Mitigation measures for climate changes : a case study of India/Akhilesh Kumar Verma, Vibha Singh, Abhijeet Singh and Vivek Kumar Singh.

The word disaster denotes a high magnitude low probability tragic event or mishappening caused either naturally or through human induced factors, suddenly or gradually, with or without any pre-warning resulting in colossal loss of life, injury to the people and damage to property. It completely disrupts normal life, all the activities come to a grinding halt and the people are left in a state of complete disarray, chaos and panic. It has far reaching social, economic and psychological implications.

With the passage of time the severity, impact and frequency of disasters have increased. Many new disasters that were earlier unheard of have evolved making, the earth risky as never before. The contemporary world and its inhabitants are becoming increasingly vulnerable to both man made and natural disasters. The growing severity and adverse impact of various disasters, natural as well as man made are a matter of great concern.

There is great need to have an effective mechanism of disaster management. Disaster management is a comprehensive holistic approach involving preparedness, mitigation and prevention aimed at reducing the impact of disaster, minimal loss of life and property and early restoration of normalcy in the affected area.

Disasters not only result in loss of lives and destruction of property, they severely hamper economic growth and development. Further coping with disasters is not alone the responsibility of the government it requires a total participation of the various state holder viz. academicians, scientific community, researchers, policy makers, administrators, corporate sector, N.G.O's local people and international community, each having a definite role to play.

The present book contains research papers from contributors from different parts of India and abroad in the international conference on strategic management of energy, environment and disaster for sustainable development jointly organized by Faculty of Management Studies, Department of Geography, BHU and GSMI Michigan, USA held during 11-15 Jan 2010 at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. This book incorporates the aspects of occurrence of natural / anthropogenic disaster, mitigation/risk reduction/assessment, pre and post disaster management for sustainable development of the disaster prone area with special reference to India. (jacket)

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