Natural Hazards and Disaster Management: Vulnerability and Mitigation

Book Details

• Author: R.B. Singh

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Language: English

• Edition: Reprint

• ISBN: 9788131600337

• Pages: 364

• Cover: Hardcover

• Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches

About the Book

Disaster management is a multidisciplinary field encompassing various issues, including monitoring, forecasting, evacuation, search and rescue, relief, reconstruction, and rehabilitation. This book delves into these aspects, emphasizing the shift from disaster response to risk reduction. It provides a comprehensive exploration of vulnerability analysis, which aims to predict and prepare for disasters by focusing on the susceptibility of communities and ensuring readiness from people, institutions, and government agencies.

This volume contains 22 chapters consisting of conceptual and empirical case studies from India and other developed nations. It combines theory, research, and policy to address disaster vulnerability, mitigation, monitoring, and forecasting. Topics include vulnerability analysis, climate change, community participation, and disaster mitigation. The book offers valuable insights for students, researchers, and professionals in fields such as geography, environmental studies, disaster management, civil engineering, and policy science.

Contents

I. Introduction and Emerging Technology

1. Introduction to Natural Hazards and Disasters

2. Current Situations and Problems in Application of Remote Sensing to Disaster Monitoring

3. Estimating Changes in Regional Snow Water Equivalent Using GIS

II. Tsunami Disaster

4. The Role of Physical and Socio-Economic Variables in the Catastrophic Loss Due to the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 26 December 2004

5. Tsunami Disaster in India: Warning, Responses, Impacts and Mitigation

III. Earthquake Disaster

6. Geological-Geomorphic Systems and Geodynamic Hazard

7. Seismic Vulnerability of Delhi

8. Co-Seismic Ground Deformation and Source Parameters of Mani M7.9 Earthquake Inferred from Spaceborne D-InSAR Observation Data

IV. Glacier, Snow and Mountain Disasters

9. Spatial Patterns of Snout Fluctuations in Himalayan Region

10. Water Resources Sustainability in the Context of Increasing Disasters in the Himalaya-Gangetic Region

11. Glaciology, Needs, Potential and Programmes

V. Flood Disaster

12. Monitoring, Mapping and Mitigation of Flood Disaster in India Using Remote Sensing and GIS

13. Economic Value of Floods with Particular Reference to Barotse Flood Plains of Western Zambia

14. Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding, Forecasting and Management of Floods

15. Flood Hazard Mapping Projects in Asian Countries

16. Study of Flood Disaster and Prevention Countermeasures of Heilongjiang Province

VI. Climate Change Vulnerability

17. Climate Change and Vulnerability in Indian Agriculture

18. Holocene Sea Level Change and Its Impact Upon the Physical Environment of Digha Sankarpur Coastal Tract, West Bengal

VII. Community Participation in Disaster Mitigation

19. A Perspective Post-Mortem of Natural Disaster

20. Community Participation in Disaster Mitigation in India

21. Community-Based Disaster Management: Indian Experience

22. Hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean: A Case Study of Hurricane Katrina

About the Author

R.B. Singh is a Reader in the Department of Geography at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. With over 26 books and 150 research papers, he is a leading authority in the fields of disaster management, GIS, remote sensing, environmental studies, and urban development. Dr. Singh has received several international research awards, including the UNESCO/ISSC Research and Study Grants Award in Social and Human Sciences. He has presented papers in more than 30 countries and is actively involved in global discussions on geography and disaster management.