India Disasters Report II/ Redefining Disasters Parasuraman,S.

LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES, BOXES, AND MAP ; FOREWORD BY MANMOHAN SINGH ; PREFACE ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; I INTRODUCTION RETHINKING DISASTERS: SEARCHING FOR CLARITY AND RELEVANCE IN DISASTER DISCOURSE (S. PARASURAMAN) ; II VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY AND DISASTERS: AN OVERVIEW OF CONCEPTS AND CHALLENGES (JANKI ANDHARIA) ; III DEVELOPMENT BUILDING 'TEMPLES' ON SHAKY GROUND: DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND DISASTER RISK (CHRISTIAN WOLFF) ; INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS: NOBODY'S CHILDREN (WALTER FERNANDES) ; HUNGRY MILLIONS: RETREATING STATE AND PREDATORY CAPITAL (VIJOO KRISHNAN) ; IV ENVIRONMENT ANGRY EARTH, POURING RAIN: NEXUS BETWEEN BAD ENVIRONMENT AND DISASTERS (MAX MARTIN) ; DROUGHT: THREATENING FOOD SECURITY (RICHARD MAHAPATRA) ; DIPPING WATER LEVELS: LOOMING CRISIS (SHRIPAD DHARMADHIKARY) ; UNSAFE DAMS: TICKING TIME BOMBS (HIMANSHU THAKKAR) ; LINKING RIVERS: CASCADING PROBLEMS (HIMANSHU THAKKAR) ; INDIA'S CITIES: DISASTER ZONES? (KALPANA SHARMA) ; INDUSTRIAL DISASTERS: UNLEARNT LESSONS (NITYANAND JAYARAMAN) ; TOXIC WASTES: GROWING HAZARD (RAVI AGARWAL) ; FORECASTING AND WARNING SYSTEMS IN A WARMING WORLD (M. RAJEEVAN) ; V GENDER GENDER AND DISASTERS (NILANJANA BISWAS) ; SEX-SELECTION: INDIVIDUAL DECISION, COLLECTIVE CALAMITY (LAXMI MURTHY) ; VI HEALTH PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT: CRYING NEED, LIMITED CAPACITY (SURINDER JASWAL AND JACQULEEN JOSEPH) ; VII INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY (ICT) IN DISASTERS STORIES OF THREATENING SEAS (FREDERICK NORONHA) ; VIII REGIONAL CONTEXT (S. PARASURAMAN, CHRISTIAN WOLFF, AND NILANJANA BISWAS) ; IX CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ; ANNEXURE: DISASTERS IN INDIA-AN EXPLORATION THROUGH DATA ; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS.