Disaster Management : Global Challenges and Local Solutions

 Contents: Introduction. 1. Disaster Management: An Overview. I. Hazards and Disasters: 2. Earthquake Risk Management: Problems and Prospects. 3. Tsunami Risk Reduction. 4. Flood Risk Management. 5. Cyclone Risk: Mitigation and Management. 6. Drought Risk Management. 7. Post-tsunami Hazards along the Indian Coast. II. Risk and Vulnerability: 8. Building Codes and Land Use Planning: Challenges of Development and Enforcement. 9. Social Vulnerability: Who Draws the Line? Where and Why? 10. Macroeconomic Management and Sustainable Development. 11. Environmental Vulnerability and Disaster Risk Reduction. 12. Climate Change Risk Reduction: Decision-making in Uncertainty. 13. Financial Management of Disaster-related Economic Losses. III. Disaster Reduction Technology: 14. Implementation Technology for Disaster Reduction. 15. Disaster Management for Infrastructure. 16. Geospatial Information in Agricultural Drought Assessment and Monitoring. 17. Multimedia Technology in Disaster Risk Management Training. 18. Transferable Indigenous Knowledge in Disaster Reduction: The Japanese Experience. IV. Education and Community: 19. Education in Disaster Risk Reduction. 20. Essentials of School Disaster Education: Example from Kobe, Japan. 21. Community Capacity and Disaster Resilience. 22. Community-based Disaster Recovery. 23. Community-based Disaster Management and Social Capital. 24. Designing Resilience: Building Community Capacity for Action. V. Crosscutting Issues: 25. Disaster, Environment and Development: Opportunities for Integration in Asia-Pacific Region. 26. Impact of Disaster on Poverty and Deprivation. 27. Climate Change Adaptation and Human Health: Linkages of Climate, Disaster and Health issues in Vietnam. 28. Exposure, Health Hazards and Environmental Risk: Study in Chennai, India. 29. Hydrometeorological Disasters and Agriculture. 30. Forest Management and Disaster Risk Reduction. 31. Rural Livelihood and Disaster Risk Reduction: A Case Study from Central Vietnam. 32. Essentials of Urban Disaster Risk Reduction. 33. Institutional Capacity in Disaster Management: The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. 34. Corporate Sector and Disaster Risk Reduction: A Community-focussed Approach. 35. Essentials of Predisaster Recovery Planning. 36. The African Experiences of Disaster Risk Reduction. 
VI. Postscript: 37. Disaster Management: The Way Ahead. Index 

"We are becoming increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters. Disaster Management is therefore an important topic for all--from high school students to researchers. Disaster data in recent years show increasing trends in physical, social and economic impacts. While a global perspective of disaster management is necessary, it is also important to emphasize local solutions. This book targets some of the key issues of disaster management, focusing on innovative research and application. The chapters are organized under 5 interrelated themes:

• Hazards and disasters
• Risk and vulnerability
• Technology
• Education and community
• Crosscutting issues

It will serve as an up-to-date reference book for researchers and practitioners in the field of disaster management throughout the world.

This book will be useful for students, teachers, researchers and practitioners in the field of disaster management. It is an invaluable resource for 

• Faculty of departments of geology and environmental science 
• Students of geology and environmental science."