Disaster science and management /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bhattacharya, Tushar (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education, [2012]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
Temas:
Disasters.
Emergency management.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A. Dedication
  • B. Preface
  • C. List of figures
  • D. List of tables
  • E. Auther's profile
  • 1. Global disaster perspective
  • Global natural risk specific profiles
  • 2. The definition of disaster: its relationship with human development
  • Definition
  • Types of disasters
  • Relationship between disaster and human development
  • Disaster management cycle
  • 3. Causes and effects of various types of disasters
  • Water and climate related disasters
  • Geosciences related disasters
  • Industrial, nuclear and chemical disasters
  • Accident-related disasters
  • Biological disasters
  • Disasters caused due to social, ethnic and religious conflicts
  • 4. Engineering and technical aspects of disasters
  • Disasters caused due to engineering and technical failure
  • Earthquake engineering
  • Coastal engineering
  • Technology and disaster management
  • Quantitative risk assessment
  • Pollution control and monitoring
  • 5. Environmental aspects of disasters
  • Introduction
  • A case study of arsenic contamination in west bengal
  • Applied ecology, environmental chemistry
  • toxicology
  • geology
  • remote sensing
  • economics
  • 6. Urban disasters
  • Introduction
  • Selected city specific vulnerability
  • 7. Climate change
  • Introduction
  • Probable impacts of climate change
  • Greenhouse gases
  • Responses to climate change
  • 8. Impact of disasters
  • Introduction
  • Assessment of disaster impacts using modern technologies
  • 9. Human rights in disaster management
  • Sphere standard
  • 10. Disaster and government's response
  • High powered committee on disaster management in india
  • Disaster management act 2005
  • Tsunami warning center
  • National cyclone risk mitigation project
  • The national building code (nbc) in india
  • 11. Responding to disasters
  • Disaster management
  • Response and rehabilitation after disasters
  • 12. Hunger and disaster
  • 13. General observations
  • A. References.

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