Natural and Anthropogenic Disasters : Vulnerability, Preparedness and Mitigation
Contents: Preface. About the editor. Acknowledgements. Contributors. 1. Natural and anthropogenic disasters: an overview/Madan Kumar Jha. 2. Earthquakes in India: hazards, genesis and mitigation measures/Vineet K. Gahalaut. 3. Impact of 2004 Tsunami on housing, sanitation, water supply and wastes management: the case of Ampara district in Sri Lanka/Leclerc Jean-Pierre and Solidarites Staff. 4. Impact of December 2004 Tsunami on Indian coasts and mitigation measures/Sujata C.H. and Nify Benny. 5. Tsunami impacts and rehabilitation of groundwater supply: lessons learned from Eastern Sri Lanka/Karen G. Villholth, Paramsothy Jeyakumar, Priyanie H. Amerasinghe, A. Sanjeewa, P. Manamperi, Meththika Vithanage, Rohit R. Goswami and Chris R. Panabokke. 6. Tsunami early warning system: an Indian Ocean perspective/Prasad K. Bhaskaran and P.C. Pandey. 7. Flood hazards in India and management strategies/Dhrubajyoti Sen. 8. Modeling for flood control and management/D. Nagesh Kumar, K. Srinivasa Raju and Falguni Baliarsingh. 9. Real-time flood forecasting by a hydrometric data-based technique/Muthiah Perumal and Bhabagrahi Sahoo. 10. Drought hazards and mitigation measures/G. Ravindra Chary, K.P.R. Vittal, B. Venkateswarlu, P.K. Mishra, G.G.S.N. Rao, G. Pratibha, K.V. Rao, K.L. Sharma and G. Rajeshwara Rao. 11. Indicators for assessing drought hazard in arid regions of India/K.P.R. Vittal, Amal Kar and A.S. Rao. 12. Tropical cyclones: trends, forecasting and mitigation/O.P. Singh. 13. Temperature extremes over India and their relationship with El Nino-Southern Oscillation/J.V. Revadekar, H.P. Borgaonkar and D.R. Kothawale. 14. Monitoring physiographic rainfall variation for sustainable management of water bodies in India/N.A. Sontakke, H.N. Singh and Nityanand Singh. 15. Emerging tools and techniques for mine safety and disaster management/Dheeraj Kumar. 16. Management of forest fire disaster: perspectives from Swaziland/Wisdom M.D. Dlamini. 17. Climate change and water resources in India: impact assessment and adaptation strategies/Adlul Islam and Alok K. Sikka. 18. Global climate change vis-a-vis crop productivity/Prabhjyot-Kaur and S.S. Hundal. 19. Adapting smallholder dairy production system to climate change/Smita Sirohi, S.K. Sirohi and Poonam Pandey. 20. Climate change-proof disaster risk reduction: prospects and challenges for developing countries/S.V.R.K. Prabhakar. 21. Potential of geospatial technologies for mitigating land and water related disasters/S. Bandyopadhyay and Madan Kumar Jha. 22. Decision support system: concept and potential for integrated water resources management/P. Tiwary, Madan Kumar Jha and M.V. Venugopalan. 23. Sustainable forest management: Key to disaster preparedness and mitigation/Tajbar S. Rawat, D. Dugaya, B.K. Prasad and Savita Bisht. 24. Participatory information management for sustainable disaster risk reduction/S.V.R.K. Prabhakar and Md. Shahid Parwez. 25. Cyclone emergency preparedness in DAE Coastal installations, India/D.V. Gopinath. 26. Sustainable management of disasters: challenges and prospects/Madan Kumar Jha. Index.
"The major challenges of the 21 century faced by human beings are how to achieve water security, food security, energy security and environmental security. Owing to enhanced natural/anthropogenic disasters worldwide, these challenges become much more complicated and daunting especially for developing countries. Therefore, it is important to highlight the risk of different disasters as well as the modern tools and techniques for minimizing disaster incidence and losses.
Disaster management being highly multidisciplinary in nature, a comprehensive book dealing with different aspects of disaster management, and encompassing important disasters faced by humankind is presently not available. This book is an attempt to fulfill this gap. It provides clear, comprehensive and up-to-date information about different facets of disaster management along with salient case studies. The book highlights the current status of disaster management focusing on developing nations, discusses vital issues such as climate change and sustainable development, modern approaches, and tools/techniques, and the challenges of and future R&D needs for sustainable disaster management.
This book will not only serve as a general guideline for effective disaster management but will also help educate engineers and scientists about the salient natural and anthropogenic disasters as well as the modern approaches and tools/techniques for their efficient management. It will be very useful to teachers, students and researchers of environmental, civil, agricultural, ocean, and land, and water resources engineering fields as well as to the practitioners, planners and decision makers, particularly of developing nations."
