Development and Disaster Management : A Study of the Northeastern States of India.
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Springer Science and Business Media : Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Editors and Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Part I Disasters, Management and Development; India's Northeast: Disasters, Development and Community Resilience; The Developmental Deficit and the Weakening Community Resilience to Disasters; Managing Fragile Himalayan Ecology; Need for Transdisciplinarity in Planning and Enforcing Disaster Management; Community Resilience Building and Government's Protective Cover to Households; Theme of This Book; Concluding Remarks; References
- Natural Disasters in the North-East: Crucial Role of Academia in Saving LivesThe N-E Region: Major EQs and Tectonic Features; What Makes NER so Vulnerable to Earthquakes (EQs); Geological Past of India's NER; Natural Disasters in NER; Earthquakes; Early Warning of Earthquakes (EWS-EQ); Landslides (LS); Floods; Flood Forecasting and Advance Warning; Cyclonic Disturbances; Riverine Erosion; Legal and Administrative Machinery for Disaster Management; Regional Climate Changes Over Northeast India: Present and Future; Introduction; Materials and Methods; Results and Discussion
- Near-Surface Air TemperaturePrecipitation; Summary and Conclusions; References; Manipur Flood 2015: Preparedness and Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies; Introduction; Objectives and Methodology; Flood History of Northeast India Region; Disasters and Vulnerability in North-East States; Flood Vulnerability in Manipur; Manipur State Flood Disaster 2015; Major Causes of Flood Disaster; Inadequate Carrying Capacity; Defective Structural Design; Unabated Urban Expansion; Excessive and Unabated Deforestation; Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Policy; Flood Disaster Management in Manipur
- Key FindingsConclusion; References; Lessons from Manipur: Managing Earthquake Risk in a Changing Built Environment; Earthquake of 4 January 2016 in Manipur; Damage to Buildings and Infrastructure in the Manipur Earthquake; Recovery Planning; Building Earthquake Safety in Manipur; Changes in the Built Environment of Manipur; Challenges and Opportunities for Earthquake Risk Reduction in Manipur; Conclusions; Varying Disasters-Problems and Challenges for Development in Manipur; Introduction; Forest Fires; Hailstorm; Pest Attack; Drought; Epidemics; Insurgent Conflict Among Armed Groups
- Bandh and BlockadeDisaster Management in Manipur; Training and Capacity Building Programmes Conducted During 2015-2016; Major Shortcomings; Conclusion; References; Manipur's Tryst with Disaster Management Act, 2005; The Challenge of Making DMA 2005 Enforceable; DM Act: A Ten-Year Assessment in Manipur; Congregation of Policy Makers at Manipur; Lessons to Be Learnt; Recommendations; Reviving 'Public Policy' and Triggering 'Good Governance': A Step Towards Sustainability; Introduction; Objectives; Indian Democracy and Diversity; Historical and Sociocultural Roots in India