Disaster Management in India (Paperback)  | Released: 31 Jul 2020

A comprehensive and contextual text that examines the manifold strategies of managing both natural and manmade disasters in India. Disaster Management in India critically evaluates the various policies, plans, structures, institutions, processes as well as functionaries that work towards managing disasters in the country. It seeks to provoke its readers to not only revisit the entire discourse of disasters and their management, but also develop a sense of disaster resilience in their lives and effectively deal with any unwarranted natural or manmade eventuality. Key Features: - Explores disaster management from an interdisciplinary perspective - Detailed analysis of various theoretical underpinnings necessary to understand the concept of disaster management - Lucid explanation of ideas with tables, maps, flowcharts, appropriate examples and practice assignments