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Disaster science and management
Title
Disaster science and management [electronic resource] / by Tushar Bhattacharya.
ISBN
9781259007361 (print ISBN)
1259007367 (print ISBN)
9781259061301
1259061302
Published
New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education LLC., c2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 181 p.) : ill., figs., tables.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on cover image and table of contents, viewed on Feb. 20, 2015.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Variant and related titles
McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
Other formats
Also issued in online version.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 30, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
A. Dedication
B. Preface
C. List of figures
D. List of tables
E. Auther's profile
1. Global disaster perspective
Global natural risk specific profiles
2. The definition of disaster: its relationship with human development
Definition
Types of disasters
Relationship between disaster and human development
Disaster management cycle
3. Causes and effects of various types of disasters
Water and climate related disasters
Geosciences related disasters
Industrial, nuclear and chemical disasters
Accident-related disasters
Biological disasters
Disasters caused due to social, ethnic and religious conflicts
4. Engineering and technical aspects of disasters
Disasters caused due to engineering and technical failure
Earthquake engineering
Coastal engineering
Technology and disaster management
Quantitative risk assessment
Pollution control and monitoring
5. Environmental aspects of disasters
Introduction
A case study of arsenic contamination in west bengal
Applied ecology, environmental chemistry
toxicology
geology
remote sensing
economics
6. Urban disasters
Introduction
Selected city specific vulnerability
7. Climate change
Introduction
Probable impacts of climate change
Greenhouse gases
Responses to climate change
8. Impact of disasters
Introduction
Assessment of disaster impacts using modern technologies
9. Human rights in disaster management
Sphere standard
10. Disaster and government's response
High powered committee on disaster management in india
Disaster management act 2005
Tsunami warning center
National cyclone risk mitigation project
The national building code (nbc) in india
11. Responding to disasters
Disaster management
Response and rehabilitation after disasters
12. Hunger and disaster
13. General observations
A. References.
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