About the Book: Disaster Management in India
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