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Title:Disaster Vulnerabilities & Risks : Trends, Concepts, Classification & Approaches
Author:Prabhas C Sinha
ISBN:8190309862 : 9788190309868
Illustrations:tables
Format:Hardback
Size:145x220mm
Pages:297
Weight: .554 Kg.
Published:SBS Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd - January 2006
List Price: 29.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Social impact of disasters: Environmental impact of industrial disasters: Environmental impact of natural disasters & phenom


Disaster Management aims to reduce suffering and economic losses caused by natural and technological disasters. This book provides the reader with an integrated understanding of the various disasters, hazards and crises and their control, mitigation and prevention with reference to possible management solutions.

Disasters: Definition, Causation Approaches & Typology; Global Disasters: Dimensions, Trends, Statistics & Implications; Disaster Vulnerability: Definition, Nature, Magnitude, Analysis, Assessment & Reduction; Disaster Risk: Definition, Analysis, Assessment & Management.