Natural and Anthropogenic Disasters : Vulnerability Preparedness and Mitigation
Language: English
Published by Capital Pub, New Delhi, 2010
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Contents Preface. About the editor. Acknowledgements. Contributors. 1. Natural and anthropogenic disasters an overview/Madan Kumar Jha. 2. Earthquakes in India hazards genesis and mitigation measures/Vineet K. Gahalaut. 3. Impact of 2004 Tsunami on housing sanitation water supply and wastes management the case of Ampara district in Sri Lanka/Leclerc Jean Pierre and Solidarites Staff. 4. Impact of December 2004 Tsunami on Indian coasts and mitigation measures/Sujata C.H. and Nify Benny. 5. Tsunami impacts and rehabilitation of groundwater supply lessons learned from Eastern Sri Lanka/Karen G. Villholth Paramsothy Jeyakumar Priyanie H. Amerasinghe A. Sanjeewa P. Manamperi Meththika Vithanage Rohit R. Goswami and Chris R. Panabokke. 6. Tsunami early warning system an Indian Ocean perspective/Prasad K. Bhaskaran and P.C. Pandey. 7. Flood hazards in India and management strategies/Dhrubajyoti Sen. 8. Modeling for flood control and management/D. Nagesh Kumar K. Srinivasa Raju and Falguni Baliarsingh. 9. Real time flood forecasting by a hydrometric data based technique/Muthiah Perumal and Bhabagrahi Sahoo. 10. Drought hazards and mitigation measures/G. Ravindra Chary K.P.R. Vittal B. Venkateswarlu P.K. Mishra G.G.S.N. Rao G. Pratibha K.V. Rao K.L. Sharma and G. Rajeshwara Rao. 11. Indicators for assessing drought hazard in arid regions of India/K.P.R. Vittal Amal Kar and A.S. Rao. 12. Tropical cyclones trends forecasting and mitigation/O.P. Singh. 13. Temperature extremes over India and their relationship with El Nino Southern Oscillation/J.V. Revadekar H.P. Borgaonkar and D.R. Kothawale. 14. Monitoring physiographic rainfall variation for sustainable management of water bodies in India/N.A. Sontakke H.N. Singh and Nityanand Singh. 15. Emerging tools and techniques for mine safety and disaster management/Dheeraj Kumar. 16. Management of forest fire disaster perspectives from Swaziland/Wisdom M.D. Dlamini. 17. Climate change and water resources in India impact assessment and adaptation strategies/Adlul Islam and Alok K. Sikka. 18. Global climate change vis a vis crop productivity/Prabhjyot Kaur and S.S. Hundal. 19. Adapting smallholder dairy production system to climate change/Smita Sirohi S.K. Sirohi and Poonam Pandey. 20. Climate change proof disaster risk reduction prospects and challenges for developing countries/S.V.R.K. Prabhakar. 21. Potential of geospatial technologies for mitigating land and water related disasters/S. Bandyopadhyay and Madan Kumar Jha. 22. Decision support system concept and potential for integrated water resources management/P. Tiwary Madan Kumar Jha and M.V. Venugopalan. 23. Sustainable forest management Key to disaster preparedness and mitigation/Tajbar S. Rawat D. Dugaya B.K. Prasad and Savita Bisht. 24. Participatory information management for sustainable disaster risk reduction/S.V.R.K. Prabhakar and Md. Shahid Parwez. 25. Cyclone emergency preparedness in DAE Coastal installations India/D.V. Gopinath. 26. Sustainable management of disasters challenges and prospects/Madan Kumar Jha. Index. The major challenges of the 21 century faced by human beings are how to achieve water security food security energy security and environmental security. Owing to enhanced natural/anthropogenic disasters worldwide these challenges become much more complicated and daunting especially for developing countries. Therefore it is important to highlight the risk of different disasters as well as the modern tools and techniques for minimizing disaster incidence and losses. Disaster management being highly multidisciplinary in nature a comprehensive book dealing with different aspects of disaster management and encompassing important disasters faced by humankind is presently not available. This book is an attempt to fulfill this gap. It provides clear comprehensive and up to date information about different facets of disaster management along with salient case studies. The book highlights the current status of disaster manageme.…
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- Natural and Anthropogenic Disasters : Vulnerability Preparedness and Mitigation
- Author
- Madan Kumar Jha
- Publisher
- Capital Pub, New Delhi
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- 2010
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- Hardbound
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- English
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- 8185589666
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- 9788185589664
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