Disaster Risk Reduction
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Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is a systematic approach to identifying, assessing and reducing the risks of disaster. It aims to reduce socio-economic vulnerabilities to disaster as well as dealing with the environmental and other hazards that trigger them: here it has been strongly influenced by the mass of research on vulnerability that has appeared in print since the mid-1970s. It is the responsibility of development and relief agencies alike and it should be an integral part of the way such organisations do their work, not an add-on or one-off action. DRR is very wide-ranging, therefore. Its scope is much broader and deeper than conventional emergency management. There is potential for DRR initiatives in just about every sector of development and humanitarian work. The most commonly cited definition of DRR is one used by UN agencies such as UNISDR and UNDP: "The conceptual framework of elements considered with the possibilities to minimize vulnerabilities and disaster risks throughout a society, to avoid (prevention) or to limit (mitigation and preparedness) the adverse impacts of hazards, within the broad context of sustainable development." Contents
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This is where this book comes in. it contains 22 chapters in the form of conceptual and empirical case studies from India and other developed countries. The blend of theory, research and policy makes this book eminently worthwhile for anyone interested in disaster vulnerability and mitigation together with monitoring and Forecasting and policy perspectives. It would be useful for students, researchers and Teachers of geography, Environmental studies, disaster management, civil Engineering and policy science.Preface I. introduction and emerging Technology :1. Introduction to Natural Hazards and Disasters : Conceptual Framework, Vulnerability, Spatial Pattern, Impacts and Mitigation Strategy Indian Experience/RB Singh2. Current Situations and Problems in Application of Remote Sensing to Disaster Monitoring/Kaor u Takara3. Estimating Changes in Regional Snow Water Equivalent Using CIS/LE Mattson, D. Rowbotham and P. Callaghan II. tsunamis disaster :4. Nature Itself Does Not Cause a Disaster : The Role of Physical and Socio-economic Variables in the Catastrophic Loss Due to the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 26 December 2004/C. Emdad Hague, N. Nirupama and TS Murty5. Tsunami Disaster in India : Warning, Responses, Impacts and Mitigation/RB Singh III. earthquake disaster :6. Geological-Geom orphic Systems and Geodynamic Hazard/Yermoshi n VV and Tashchi S.M7. Seismic Vulnerability of Delhi/Y. Pandey and PKS Chauhan8. Co-seismic Ground Deformation and Source Parameters of Mani M7.9 Earthquake Inferred from Spaceborne D-Insar Observation Data/Shan Xinjian, MA Jin, Wang Changlin, Liu Jiahang, Song Xiaoyu and Zhang Guifang IV. GLACIER, snow and mountain disasters :9. Spatial Patterns of Snout Fluctuations in Himalayan Region/Sarfaraz Ahm1ad and Syed I. Hasnain10. Water Resources Sustainability in the Context of Increasing Disasters in the Himalaya-Ganget ic Region/RB Singh11. Glaciology, Needs, Potential and Programmes/CP Vohra V. flood disaster :12. Monitoring, Mapping and Mitigation of Flood Disaster in India Using Remote Sensing and Gis : A Case Study/RB Shing and Dilip Kumar13 Economic Value of Floods with Particular Reference to Barotse Flood Plains of Western Zambia/Imasiku A. Nyambe, Peter Chola, and Clement FG Mukosa14 Interdisciplina ry Approach to the Understanding, Forecasting and Management of Floods/Third World Water Furum, Kyoto, Japan15 Flood Hazard Mapping Projects in Asian Countries/Liu Jinping16 Study of Flood Disaster and Prevention Countermeasures of Heilong|iang Province/Zhao Wei Min Vi climate change vulnerability :17 Climate Change and Vulnerability in Indian Agriculture : A Major Hurdle Towards Food Security/Sudip Mitra, Suruchi Bhadwal, Ulka Kelkar and Latha Rangan18 Holocene Sea Level Change and Its Impact Upon the Physical Environment of Digha Sankarpur Coastal Tract, West Bengal/Sudip Dey VII. community participation in disaster mitigation :19. A Perspective Post-mortem of Natural Disaster/Rajkum ar Singh20. Community Participation in Disaster Mitigation in India/Anju Singh and RB Singh21. (Community-base d Disaster Management : Indian Experience/AK Srivastava22. Hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean : A Case Study of Hurricane Katrina/Shouras eni Sen Roy  @ Barnes & Noble Store: Barnes & Noble Price: $92.15 USD • Compare Prices ► Condition: new Since the 1960s there has been a constant evolution in the common understanding of international disaster management. Despite international efforts aimed at reducing the impact of hazards on humankind, very little progress was made. Disaster losses are on the increase. Unsustainable developmental activities could in most instances be blamed for the high level of disaster risk present in communities. This monograph aims to develop a comprehensive multi-sphere disaster reduction framework that is tailor-made for the strategic management arena in South Africa. The research provides the reader with a background study on the international development of the concept of disaster risk reduction and its components. It focuses on disaster risk management and disaster management within the South African context. 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