About the Book: Disaster Risk Management: Techniques and Practice
This practical guide helps students, professionals, planners, administrators,
and policymakers to understand and manage disaster risk in a changing world. The
book explains how disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerable communities, weak
systems, unsafe development, and poor preparedness. It covers major risks such
as earthquakes, floods, cyclones, droughts, heatwaves, pandemics and industrial
accidents, with special focus on Indias multi-hazard context. It discusses risk
assessment, mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery, climate resilience,
nature-based solutions and community participation, besides modern tools such as
AI, IoT, GIS, drones, and digital platforms. Rooted in the Sendai Framework,
SDGs, and the Paris Agreement, the book