Disaster Mitigation and Management: Post-Tsunami Perspectives

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Since 26 December 2004, the occurrence of natural calamites in terms of Tsunami and heavy floods has become a regular phenomenon in India. Not only did they affect the people in coastal areas, but also inhabitants in and around inland regions. During the past one year, it is evident that the extent to which a population is affected by a calamity does not purely lie in the physical component of vulnerability, but is contextual also to the prevailing social and economic conditions and its is consequential effect on human activities within a given society. Amid the countless corpse statistics, countable survivors' stories and gigantic relief and rehabilitation operations, many eyebrows have raised about the philosophical question: is there God? It is reflected in a spate of articles and letters in newspapers published by rationalists, religious leaders and theologians, faith-believers, scientists and common people all over the world. Post-Tsunami rescue, relief and rehabilitation experiences by different governments, NGOs and donor agencies have opened up new vistas in disaster mitigation and management strategies.

This special book, Disaster Mitigation and Management: Post-Tsunami Perspectives is to commemorate the decadal service (1996-2006) of Vellore Institute of Development Studies (VIDS).

Additional informative as well as illustrative media reports especially after two-year historic natural disaster have been added to build-up the necessary practical parameters of disaster mitigation and management among the people. Do's and don'ts related to Tsunami, earthquake, floods and heavy rains are catalogued as cautious preventive measures. The book's coverage and contents on disaster management will become a good referral for post-Tsunami disaster plans and programmes.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR P Jegadish Gandhi

P. Jegadish Gandhi (1941), formerly Professor of Economics at Voorhees College, Vellore for over three decades, is now Director of the Vellore Institute of Development Studies. Specialising in Development and Socio-economic issues, Gandhi has more than 200 articles published in leading economic journals and in popular periodicals in India and abroad and 23 books of his credit. His latest book on Dr. Kalam’s PURA Model and Societal Transformation was published in January 2005. he has participated in and presented papers at several national and regional seminars and international conferences. Gandhi jhas the distinction of having been a Visiting Scientist, DST (Government of India) Project, Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (1987-88). He was Vice-President of the International Society for Intercommunication of New Ideas (USA) and Treasurer, Vice-President and President (2000-2001), the Association of Economists of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry. Gandhi has been honoured with the Senior Economist Award of the Association of economists of Tamil Nadu in 2002. He was an Expert Member of the Working Groups on Road Transport Services, Employmetn/Unemployment and Rural Development in the formulation of 9th & 10th Plans, State Planning Commission, Government of Tamil Nadu. Dr. Gandhi is presently an Academic Council Member of Vellore Institute of Technology, Deemed University and Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore. As a social activist, he has been working for the abolition of bonded labour and child labour system among other issues of social concern.

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Title
Disaster Mitigation and Management: Post-Tsunami Perspectives
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8176299758
Length
xxv+250p., 23cm.
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