Disaster Management in India

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-93-5388-303-4
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 690 g

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pandey, Rajendra Kumar

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
Part A: Understanding Disasters
Introduction to Disasters
Natural Disasters
Man-made Disasters
Contextualizing Disasters
Part B: Disaster Management: Concept and Context
Conceptualizing Disaster Management
Disaster Management Cycle
Global Thrust for Disaster Management
Evolution of Disaster Management System
Part C: Management of Disasters in India
Disaster Profile of India
Disaster Management Policy
Legal Framework
Disaster Mitigation: Institutional Arrangements
Financial and Federal Dimensions
Good Practices in Disaster Management
Part D: New Horizons of Disaster Management
Role of Science and Technology
Voluntary Action and Multilateral Cooperation
Innovations and Challenges in Managing Disasters
Towards a Disaster-resilient India
Managing a Biological Disaster: The Case of COVID-19 in India
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pandey, Rajendra Kumar
Rajendra Kumar Pandey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. Besides earning his Masters, MPhil and Doctorate degrees from the University of Delhi, he also holds the prestigious Postgraduate Diploma (with summa cum laude: excellent grade) in Federalism, Decentralization and Conflict Resolution from the Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. In the past, Dr Pandey taught graduate students at the Delhi College of Arts and Commerce (1998– 2003),Hindu College (2003–09) (both University of Delhi), and the UGC-Centre for Federal Studies, Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi. Besides publishing research papers in reputed journals, he has co-authored two books—Indian Government and Politics (SAGE, 2008) and Modern Indian Political Thought: Text and Context (SAGE, 2009). He has also made substantial contribution to develop self-learning materials for students of open and distance learning in different areas of political science and public administration. The current focus areas of his academic pursuits are public policy and governance with special reference to the issues of disaster management and human rights.