Disaster management: future challenges and opportunities/

Disaster management: future challenges and opportunities/ edited by Jagbir Singh - New Delhi: I.K. International Pub. House, 2007. - 351 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Section 1: Natural Disaster Management
1. Fire Disaster: Challenges, Opportunities and its Management-
A Case Study of Australia
Joan Schreijaeg-Gilniour
2. Challenges of Flood Disaster Management: A Case Study
Noida
R.B. Singh and Swarnima Singh
3. Global Warming: Challenges for Food Security in India
Mohinder Singh Kadayan
4. Landslide Disasters and its Management
Alpana Parmar and Sheel Kumar
5. Flood Disaster: Its Impact, Challenges and Management in
India
Rajesh Kumar Abhay
6. Earthquake Hazard Management
Sheel Kumar

Section 2: Man Made Disasters
7. Temporal Transport Hazard Dynamics: A Case Study of Delhi
R.B. Singh and Swarnima Singh
8. Solid Waste Management: Post-Disaster
Bharat Jhamnani and S.K. Singh
9. Preliminary Assessment of Impact of Tsunami on the Nutrient
and Sediment Dynamics in the Pichavaram Mangrove
Ecosystem, India
A.L Ramanathan, Rajesh Kumar Ranjan and M. Bala Krishna
Prasad
10. AIDS: Health Disaster, Challenges and its Management in
Delhi
Neetu Malik
11. A Threat of Bio-terrorism in Mega Cities
Anand Shukla
12. Antibacterial Activity of Some Botano-Extracts Against Plant
Pathogenic Bacteria Pseudomonas syringae
S.K. Bhardwaj
13. Technological Hazards: Man-Made Disasters
Surender Singh
14. Climate Change and Vulnerability of Coastal Mega Cities
Shyamoli Sen and Sushmita Goswami
15. Fire Hazard Management In Urban Areas
Ms. Vidhi Saluja & Sheel Kumar

Scction 3: Role of Technology in Disaster Management
16. Future Applications and Challenges of Remote Sensing,
GPS and GIS in Disaster Management in India
Jagbir Singh
17. Fire Disaster and its Possible Management through GIS
Technology in Delhi
Anupma Verma
18. Avalanches Problem in India and the Role of GIS, Remote
Sensing and Information Technology in its Mitigation
Sabina Walia

Section 4: Community Preparedness
19. Vulnerability Analysis and Mitigation: Key to Disaster
Management
R.B. Singh
20. Partnership Development with VBOs in Disaster
Management in Delhi
Biranchi Rout and Vijay Ummidi
21. The Impact of Tsunami on the Groundwater Quality in
Tamilnadu, South East Coast of India
Ramanathan AL, Chidambaram and Senthil Kumar G
22. Role of Tourism Business Firms in Disaster Management
Strategies
P. V. Khalri
23. Impact of Tsunami on Coastal Zones
Senthil Kumar G and S. Chidambaram
24. Challenges and Opportunities to Disaster Management in
India
Swati Thakur

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