Capacity Building for Disaster Management
Contents: Preface. 1. Techno-financial approaches to risk mitigation in Asia. 2. Role of insurance and reinsurance in managing financial risks due to natural catastrophic events. 3. Capacity building and public awareness. 4. Some capacity building initiatives in India on earthquake risk reduction. 5. Improving preparedness and reducing vulnerability in human settlements. 6. Assessment and monitoring of floods and agricultural drought using remotely sensed data: Indian scenario. 7. Meteorological training sand education: with reference to natural disaster mitigation and management. 8. Disaster management for flood hazard in Bhandara District Using Remote Sensing and GIS. 9. Natural disaster management through thermal remote sensing geographic information system and GPS in reference to coal mine fire hazards: a case study of Jharia, India. 10. Tapping the potential of remote sensing and GIS for drought monitoring. 11. Risk assessment of natural disasters, mitigation and management strategies -- a study. 12. Disaster knowledge network. 13. Disaster prevention by regulating engineering profession--a legislative framework for India. 14. Techno-legal strategies for disaster risk mitigation. 15. Seismic performance examination of RC buildings as per Asian Concrete Model Code (ACMC-2001). 16. Generation of historical vulnerability indices using a Desinventar database. 17. Development of information systems and networking for disaster management -- an overview. 18. Adequacy of existing seismic torsional provisions: a critical review with recommendations. 19. Indian policy, legislation and institutional arrangements for urban risk mitigation: an argument for right based approach. 20. Important elements of disaster management for practitioners. 21. Financing of disaster mitigation -- problems and prospects. 22. Disasters knowledge network: a step towards effective natural disaster management. Bibliography. Index.
“Natural hazards like cyclones, floods, earthquakes and landslides, cause enormous damage and loss to human lives, build environment, property and business. Damages are also being experienced by societies due to hazards like terrorists attacks sand accidental chemical explosions. Many countries in the world have been experiencing disasters due to one or more of these hazards. The size and nature of disaster can be mitigated (i) by making use of information collected from previous events and the environment (ii) by conducting scientific studies to understand the natural hazards and their effects on built environment, and (iii) by developing and adopting suitable methods of efficient management in pre and post disaster operations including issue of warnings, rescue/recovery and rehabilitation. Disaster preparedness and mitigation involves multi-disciplinary effort requiring close coordination among administrators, academics/scientists, technocrats, regulatory authorities and the departments concerned besides the cooperation from the people involved. Disasters can be effectively mitigated by developing and adopting suitable strategies by making use of expertise, knowledge and information available with or collected y the parties concerned. Large scale exchange/sharing of data/information and knowledge will be involved in this process either involving one discipline (or area of work) or that spanning across two or more disciplines. Computer, information and communication technologies can be effectively used to deal with the problem of speedy exchange information/knowledge of different types among the parties, that may be located at different geographic locations. This requires development of suitable strategies and systems to suit the needs of management and users as well.
This book will be of immense help to all those contemplating to acquire an expert knowledge of disaster management and its different facets for bringing efficiency in disaster mitigation systems and services.” (jacket)
