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Synopsis “Disaster management is an emerging discipline and has applications in frontline areas of disaster preparedness, floods, droughts, landslides, avalanches, cyclones, storms, Tsunamis, el-ninos, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, forest fires and man made disasters like industrial accidents, rail and air accidents, technological disasters, war and its effect on the people and environment. Disaster management has become a frontline applied science and is of vital importance to study new areas of natural as well as man made disasters like Tsunami and el-nino. Comprehensive details have been provided with case studies on selected countries for transferring the technologies for disaster mitigation.

The principal aim of the disaster management programme envisaged in this book is to ensure that India emerges as a key international player in the field of disaster management; enabling a greater access to wealth of information created during the third millennium and the twenty first century era and catalyse the country’s attainment of lead position in the areas of mitigation measures for tackling disasters.”

Contents:
Preface. 1. Emergency preparedness and response to counter bioterrorism. 2. Biological disaster prevention and response. 3. Pediatric terrorism and disaster preparedness. 4. The United Nations response to emergencies. 5. The dynamics of national disaster relief strategy and general preparedness measures. 6. Localizing disaster relief. 7. Military and civil defense assets applications in disaster relief. 8. MCDA and environmental disaster support. 9. Biological warfare mass casualty management. 10. The role of environmental health in disaster management. 11. Who’s response to the threat of the deliberate use of biological and chemical agents. Bibliography. Index.