Disaster Perception and Management

T.S. Chouhan

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Language: English

Pages: 250

Binding: Hard Bound

ISBN: 9789389184662

E-ISBN: 9789389184686

Publisher: Scientific Publishers

Size(inch): 6.50 x 9.70 x 0.70

Weight (in Gram): 600gm

Publication Year: 2020

Publication Month: January

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Disaster Management, provides the reader with various disaster management techniques and frameworks to mitigate the consequences of the disaster. This book provides various dimensions of Disaster Management, causes of disasters—both natural and manmade, threats posed and the ways of managing the same. The entire book has been divided into 29 chapters.
The book is suitable for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of Geography and also students of Disaster Management. Moreover, the book can also be suitable for the students of Environmental Engineering, Agricultural Science and Engineering.

1. CONCEPT OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT

2. VULNERABILITY OF DISASTERS IN INDIA

3. TYPE OF DISASTERS

4. CLIMATE CHANGE PERCEPTIONS

5. MITIGATING CLIMATE CHANGE

6. ISSUES OF CLIMATE CHANGE

7. NATURAL DISASTERS AND MAN MADE DISASTERS

8. FLOOD DISASTERS

9. DROUGHT DISASTERS

10. CYCLONE DISASTERS

11. EARTHQUAKE DISASTER

12. LANDSLIDES DISASTER

13. AVALANCHE DISASTER

14. VOLCANIC ERUPTION

15. HEAT AND COLD WAVES

16. CLIMATE CHANGE: GLOBAL WARMING

17. CLIMATE CHANGE: SEA LEVEL RISE

18. CLIMATE CHANGE: OZONE DEPLETION

19. FOREST FIRE

20. DEFORESTATION

21. DISASTER PERCEPTIONS

22. QUICK RESPONSE TO HIGHEST INTENSITY DISASTERS (L-3)

23. INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT

24. DISASTER MANAGEMENT MECHANISM IN INDIA

25. INSTITUTIONAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK

26. DISASTER PREVENTION AND MITIGATION IN INDIA

27. DISASTER MITIGATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

28. FUTURE COURSE OF ACTION FOR DISASTER FREE DEVELOPMENT

29. THE DISASTER MANAGEMENT ACT, 2005 239

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T.S. Chouhan
Dr. T.S. Chouhan (b. 1953) is a Senior Faculty Member in the Department of Geography, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He is engaged in teaching and research in the fields of Environmental Geography, Remote Sensing and its Applications, Geography of Arid Lands, Agricultural Geography, Cartography, GIS, GPS Applications and Integrated Area Development, etc. Dr. Chouhan has participated in number of International Conferences and Presented Research Paper and Chaired the Technical Sessions. He has to his credit more than 70 research papers published in reputed journals in India and abroad and is the author of more than two dozen well acclaimed books. He has been guiding research work for the last more than two decades and supervised more than 65 doctoral theses. Dr. Chouhan is a recognized consultancy/expert to the Government of Rajasthan, Planning Department (Gr. IV), Jaipur in various fields like Wasteland Development, Forestry, Land Management, Water Conservation, Remote Sensing and Cartography. Presently he is working on the following research projects : Application of Satellite Remote Sensing Technology in Planning Natural Resources of Rajasthan; Environmental Protection and Management of Biodiversity in Rajasthan; Development of Wastelands on Watershed basis in Rajasthan; District Planning Atlas of Rajasthan (Based on GIS Applications) and Natural Disaster Management in Rajasthan using Remote Sensing and GIS. Dr. Chouhan holds the membership of various International, National and Regional Academic Societies contributing in most valuable manner.

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