Disaster Risk and Impact Management: Approaches, Tools and Strategies
by Gupta, Anil K.
ISBN: 9789386615671
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Imprint : DAYA
Year : 2018
Price : Rs. 9995.00
Biblio : xii+275p.,figs.,tabls., 25 cm
About The Book
Disaster is any occurrence that causes damage, ecological disruption, loss of human life and deterioration of health and health services on a scale sufficient to warrant an extraordinary response from outside the affected community. A disaster as an occurrence such as hurricane, tornado, storm, flood, high water, wind driven water, tidal wave, earthquake, drought, blizzard, pestilence, famine, fire, explosion, volcanic eruption, building collapse, transportation wreck, or other situation that ca
Table of Contents
"Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
List of Contributors
(Disaster Risks: Overview)
1. Disaster Risk Management for Sustainability
Anil K. Gupta, Sreeja S. Nair and Vinod K. Sharma
2. Climatic Effects of Increasing Concentrations of Atmospheric Methane
R.S. Khoiyangbam and Anil K. Gupta
3. Coastal and Sea Erosion: Risk Profile dand Mitigation Strategies
Sushma Guleria, Sreeja S. Nair and Anil K. Gupta
4. Bioterrorism: A Technological Hazard for Ecology and Mankind
Manish Kumar Verma, Brijesh
