Disaster Risk and Impact Management: Some Ecohydrological and Strategic Issues

Disaster is any occurrence that causes damage, ecological disruption, loss of human life and deterioration of health and health services on a scale sufficient to warrant an extraordinary response from outside the affected community. A disaster as an occurrence such as hurricane, tornado, storm, flood, high water, wind driven water, tidal wave, earthquake, drought, blizzard, pestilence, famine, fire, explosion, volcanic eruption, building collapse, transportation wreck, or other situation that causes human suffering or creates human needs that the victims cannot alleviate without assistance. The present book Disaster Risk and Impact Management: Approaches, Tools and Strategies comprises of three sections: Disaster Risks: Overview, Case Studies and Strategic Approaches. Experts in the relevant fields have given critical appraisal of the various aspects of disasters risk and its management. The scientists, teachers, scholars, administrators and policy makers dealing with disaster risk and impact management find this book very useful and informative. Dr. Anil Kumar Gupta, Head - Division of Policy Planning, National Institute of Disaster Management, New Delhi, India (Former Reader & Head, Director, Institute of Environment & Development Studies, Bundelkhand University, Uttar Pradesh, India). Dr. Vinod K. Sharma is Senior Professor, Disaster Management at Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi and Executive Vice Chairman, Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority and Vice Chancellor of Devi Ahilya University Indore. Sreeja S. Nair, Consortium Coordinator, Myanmar Consortium for Disaster Risk Reduction Capacity Building, Yangon, Myanmar (Assistant Professor, National Institute of Disaster Management, New Delhi).