Disaster Management: A Comprehensive Approach

This book 'Disaster Management Hazard and Risk Awareness: A Comprehensive Approach' provides various concepts and knowledge on all the hazards, disasters and the risk associated with them. The book develops the mitigation skill too. All the functions and responsibilities of disaster manager are discussed. Both the types of disasters, natural (such as Earthquake, Tsunami, Volcano, Floods, Cyclone, Heat/Cold Waves, Avalanche, Blizzard, Drought/ Famine and Epidemics) and manmade (like Wars, Terrorism, Violence, Air/ Marine/ Rail/ Road Accidents, Soil Erosion, Pollution. Acid Rains and so forth) are sufficiently from fundamentals to advancements in concepts while narrating the historical records of oldest to latest. It aims at providing an insight into various mitigating, rescuing, rehabilitating and recovering techniques, and awareness on safety and security measures in hazard prone areas as well as the preparedness, resisting, avoiding methods when Disaster is expected to occur.

The special features in this book are

- Coverage of all the topics of disasters and its mitigation and management

- Visualization of concepts through thought provoking Cartoons

- Lucid presentation and simple language

- The self assessment questionnaire at every topic.

- Short Answer type and Long Answer type questions with sufficient number of illustrations

- Interesting O'My Silent Inner Vibes -'O'M SIV', The tales and narratives which could touch your heart

- The case studies, situation analyses and topics mini/major projects

- The latest developments under 'O MY God (OMG)?' and some tips to remember

Smaller chapters with practical examples and comparisons wherever required.

Dr. N.V.S.Raju, is a BE graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana and PG Dip. Industrial Relations and Personal Management also from the same university. He has got two Post Graduate degrees, one from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad in M.Tech. (PE & M) and the second is from Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad in MBA (Marketing). He is an active life member of professional bodies such as ISTE and ORSI. He has been awarded Ph.D. in Mechanical Engg from OU, in the year 2005 for the research in Reliability Centered Maintenance of Heavy Earth Moving Machinery, SCCL Ramagundam, Telangana. He has served in industry for about 10 years and more than 20 years as academician. He is presently serving the student community as Professor of Mechanical Engineering, JNTUH College of Engineering, Jagitial, Nachupally-Kodagattu, Kodimial Mandal, Jagitial dist. Telangana. He is the former Vice Principal of the institute and Head of the Department and now the Coordinator for Entrepreneurship Development Cell. He authored more than 20 books with the titles -Operations Research, Instrumentation, Disaster Management, Optimization Methods for Engineers, Plant Maintenance and Reliability Engineering, Industrial Engineering & Management, Total Quality Management, Quality Management & Six Sigma, Reliability Centered Maintenance Models for Mining Machinery, Statistical Analysis & Inferences in Reliability-Availability-Maintainability. He has more than 100 National and International publications to his credit and 5 Doctorates have been awarded under his supervision. A Project guided by him bagged Silver Medal in the year 1999 by Institute of Engineers (India) and ISTE. He received Gold Medal for his paper, 'Make in India-Issues and Challenges' at 3rd International Conference and 57th Convention of IIIE, India and SVP-NIT, Surat, Gujarat, India. In 2011 he is the recipient of the prestigious awards Shiksha Rattan Puraskar, Bharathjyothi, from IIFS, New Delhi, Glory of India Gold Medal from IISA, Vishishta Seva Puraskar by JNTUH and The Best Citizen of India Award from India Publishing House, New Delhi.