Disaster Management in India - Couverture souple

Pandey, Rajendra Kumar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9353883032 ISBN 13 : 9789353883034

Editeur : SAGE Texts, 2020

Synopsis

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 understand the concept of disaster management

• Lucid explanation of ideas with tables, maps, flowcharts, appropriate examples and practice assignments

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rajendra Kumar Pandey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. Besides earning his Masters, MPhil and Doctorate degrees from the University of Delhi, he also holds the prestigious Postgraduate Diploma (with summa cum laude: excellent grade) in Federalism, Decentralization and Conflict Resolution from the Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. In the past, Dr Pandey taught graduate students at the Delhi College of Arts and Commerce (1998– 2003),Hindu College (2003–09) (both University of Delhi), and the UGC-Centre for Federal Studies, Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi. Besides publishing research papers in reputed journals, he has co-authored two books―Indian Government and Politics (SAGE, 2008) and Modern Indian Political Thought: Text and Context (SAGE, 2009). He has also made substantial contribution to develop self-learning materials for students of open and distance learning in different areas of political science and public administration. The current focus areas of his academic pursuits are public policy and governance with special reference to the issues of disaster management and human rights.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A comprehensive and contextual text that examines the manifold strategies of managing both natural and manmade disasters in India.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Texts
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9353883032
• ISBN 13: 9789353883034
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 319
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible