Disaster Planning and Governance in India

Experts’ Experiences and Insights

Sunita Reddy, Anil Kumar Sinha (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

437 Seiten

2023 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-9195-0 (ISBN)

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With an increasing need for experts to provide solutions to complex disaster scenarios and related management issues across the globe, universities and governments are finding it highly relevant to introduce courses on disaster management. Disaster management education could help in disaster mitigation and could save several lives, as well as assets. Written in simple language by disaster professionals, most of whom have dedicated their entire careers to disaster management, this book will be an important textbook for graduate and postgraduate research students. It provides the history of disaster management, especially governance issues and scientific and technological development in the areas of disasters including recovery processes, which have drastically reduced the loss of lives. This book not only unfolds the process of evolution of disaster management and challenges faced by experts in the field, but also suggests various ways in which we can build a resilient country.

Sunita Reddy is an Associate Professor at the Center of Social Medicine and Community Health of Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She has published three books and 74 papers in peer-reviewed journals. She is the Founder Chair of the Anthropos India Foundation, and is one of the founding members of the Special Center for Disaster Research at Jawaharlal Nehru University.Anil Kumar Sinha, a veteran of laying the foundations of Disaster Management in India, has expertise in disaster risk reduction, climate change and mainstreaming public policy analysis. He is the founding Vice-Chairman of the Bihar State Disaster Management Authority. As Joint Secretary in the Government of India, he provided leadership and management in response to events such as the Bhuj Earthquake in 2001 and the Orissa Super-Cyclone in 1999. He also founded the National Institute of Disaster Management, and International Recovery Platform (IRP)/UNDP in Kobe, Japan.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.02.2023
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-5275-9195-6 / 1527591956
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-9195-0 / 9781527591950
Zustand	Neuware