Disaster Science and Management - Softcover

Bhattacharya, Mr Tushar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1259061302 ISBN 13: 9781259061301

Publisher: Tata McGraw-Hill Education Private Limited, 2012

Synopsis

"Disaster Science and Management has been written based on an extensive library research and with an empirical insight on response to disasters in various cultural and social contexts in India. The book has essentially six components: understanding of disasters and their relationship with human development; the international code of conduct and minimum standard of humanitarian response; the science of disasters; the Government of India’s efforts in minimizing disaster losses; management of disasters; and real life case studies of responses after disasters, including disaster risk reduction by the poor and vulnerable. Disaster Management has become an integral part of the curriculum in Engineering, Management, Social science, Economics and Rural Development Courses in India. The book has several examples of “good and not so good” practices of all stage of the disaster management cycle which comes from the experiential perspective the author has gained through his involvement in managing most types of disasters. Policy makers, executioners and the academia will find this book useful as there is no dichotomy between development and disaster management; both attempt to improve peoples’ abilities to absorb macro and micro shocks."

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About the Author

Tushar Bhattacharya is a Geophysicist from IIT Kharagpur. He has been involved in social development and humanitarian responses in India for over three decades while working with the organizations like Oxfam GB, Action Aid UK and CARE India. During all these years he had responded well in managing various types of disasters in diverse social and cultural contexts across India. He was a member of the Editorial Team of the India Disaster Report published by Oxford University Press in 1999. He was the active member of the “National Cyclone Risk Management Project” of Government of India.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tata McGraw-Hill Education Private Limited
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1259061302
• ISBN 13: 9781259061301
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198