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Globe is prone to many natural and manmade disasters every year and thus possesses a physical and economical crisis for human being. If nothing is prepared it will difficult to deal with the many challenges following a disaster. Disaster management is a multidisciplinary area, covering a wide range of issues such as monitoring, forecasting, evacuation, search and rescue, relief, reconstruction and rehabilitation. The management aspects like activities, awareness and use of state of art technology can play an important role in the minimization of its impact on people and their properties. The foremost aim of writing this book is to empower the students by providing the basic and general knowledge, services to be rendered in a disaster situation. The framework of disaster management at national, state and district level is facilitates their role and responsibilities to be undertaken in disaster situation is described including the policy, planning, organizational, operational, and other matters. The book covers all the task of implementation of the initiative of inculcating the culture of preparedness in the community as they are the first responders in case of a disaster.

The book includes, what, how, when and by whom what should be done before, during and after a disaster takes place. The book highlights the impacts of disasters on life and economy and provides concise information for their management. The monitoring, forecasting of many natural disaster and role of ministry and departments are explained in this text book. How the rescue and rehabilitation to be undertaken to fulfill the day to day need of affected people is also provided. To comprehend the reading more lucid the book has been divided into different chapters. The book will be of interest to students, faculty, community leaders, self-trained disaster managers, social workers, media personnel, bureaucrats and citizen. It will be an asset to any student who are pursuing a degree or appearing for any competitive examination.

1	Basics of disaster Disaster Features of disaster India natural disaster proneness Types of disaster Effect of disaster Hazard Types of hazard Nature of hazard Risk Risk factors Risk characterization Vulnerability Emergency and disaster Disaster cycle Development and disaster	1-20
2	Natural Disaster Severity of natural disaster Earthquake The composition and structure of earth Causes of earthquake Measuring of earthquake Earthquake risk zone of India Major earthquakes Earthquake monitoring Earthquake prediction Tsunami Causes of Tsunami Detection and Monitoring of Tsunami Tsunami warning system Volcano Causes of volcano Major volcano events Cyclone Causes of cyclone Distribution pattern of Indian cyclones Major cyclonic events of India Naming of cyclonic storm Cyclone monitoring and forecasting Storm surge Cloud burst Impact of cloud burst Cloud burst over Indian subcontinent Cloud burst forecasting Landslide Causes of landslide Distribution pattern Avalanches Area prone to avalanches Forecasting of avalanches Type of flooding Causes of flood Flood forecasting Flood prone area of India Major flood events Drought Types of drought Causes of drought Drought prone zone of India Major drought events Drought declaration Drought management	21-73
3	Extreme weather events and climate change Extreme weather events Frequency and distribution Heat wave Cold wave Cold wave injury Climate Climate change Climate variability Global warming Green house gases The green house effect The glass house effect Impact of climate change Ozone and UV-B Climate change mitigation Extreme weather events in Bundelkhand Agroclimatic zone Madhya Pradesh	74-98
4	Manmade disaster Nuclear disaster Nuclear injuries Protection from nuclear injury and attack Chemical disaster Sources of chemical disaster Major chemical accidents in India Biological disaster Bio- terrorism Biological agents Major biological events World biggest epidemic and pandemic Action plan for management Early detection and warning signals Other Manmade disasters Riot Terrorism War	99-115
5	Accidents Fire accident Fire hazard Building fire Coal fire Major coal fire events Forest fire Wildfire Major forest fire events Forest fire proneness in India Indian Forest Fire Response and Assessment System Deforestation Forest and disaster vulnerability Oil fire Effect oil fire Major oil fire events Fire safety Protection and prevention Fire code Fire safety education Road accident Road accident prone zone Causes of road accident Rail accidents Major rail accidents Air accidents Causes of air accident Major air accidents Industrial accident Major industrial accidents	116-133
6	Pollution Air pollution Causes of air pollution Source of air pollution Air pollutants Major air pollution events Control measures of air pollution Water pollution Cause of water pollution Source of water pollution Major pollutants Major water pollution events Control measures of water pollution Impact of water pollution on plants Soil pollution Causes of soil pollution Major soil pollutants Control measure of soil pollution Land pollution Phyto-remediation	134-149
7	Disaster management Disaster and their management Disaster management components Disaster management cycle Disaster mitigation Disaster risk reduction Disaster mitigation plan Disaster mitigation plan at national level Disaster mitigation plan at international level Disaster Contingency Plan Emergency Planning Risk assessment Disaster Management Early warning signal and detection	150-176
8	Disaster Management in India Disaster Management Act National Policy on disaster management National disaster management system Disaster information flow and alerts Different institutional mechanism Committee for disaster management in India National disaster management framework National level crisis management committee State level crisis management committee Role of Other Departments/Agencies Financial Mechanism and Activities Financial arrangement	177-190
9	Role and response Role Disaster Management Structures Role of citizen Role of armed force Role of police force State disaster response force National disaster response force Role of non-governmental organisation Role of media Role of social media Role community knowledge Role of community Role of student Role of technology Disaster responsibility Administrative responsibility Community action plan Disaster preparedness	191-205
10 11	Rescue and rehabilitation Rescue Rescue operations Disasters and rehabilitation Rehabilitation Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill Disaster recovery plan Nature of recovery Disaster Education Government initiatives towards disaster education Capacity development in India Capacity development programme at different level Ministry of Human Resource Development National Disaster Management Authority Capacity gaps in disaster management Benefits from disaster management education National Day for Disaster Reduction in India	206-210 211-218

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