Disaster Management and Risk Reduction: Role of Environmental Knowledge - Couverture rigide

Gupta, Anil K.; Nair, Sreeja S.; Bemmerlein-Lux, Florian; Chatterji, Sandhya

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 8184872518 ISBN 13 : 9788184872514

Editeur : Narosa Publishing House, 2013

Synopsis

Disaster management and risk reduction is a fast growing academic discipline of environmental sciences to meet the evident deficit of scientific and professional human resource on disaster management education and its practices.

This book provides case studies on hydro-meteorological disaster forewarning, industrial disasters, coastal protection; context of rural, urban development and agro-systems, hotspot analysis, vulnerability mapping, land-use planning, geo-ICT tools, environmental concerns in emergency relief, critical infrastructure, legal systems and ecosystem approach to disaster reduction and includes case studies on integration of climate-change adaptation with disaster management under the umbrella of regional environmental actions are added advantage.

The book helps practitioners and scholars of disaster management across a range of studies, research and ground implementations related to ecology, natural resources, agriculture, geography, health and engineering.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Anil K. Gupta / Sreeja S. Nair.: National Institute of Disaster Management Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, IIPA Campus, New Delhi Florian Bemmerlein-Lux.: Ifanos Concept and Planning Germany Vor der Cramergasse 11, 90478 Nurnberg, Germany Sandhya Chatterji.: Ifanos Concept and Planning India C9/9405 Vasant Kunj, New Delhi

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Narosa Publishing House
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8184872518
• ISBN 13: 9788184872514
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible