ABOUT THE BOOK

Disaster Management is the discipline of dealing with and avoiding or reducing the aftermath of an emergency situation. It is a discipline that involves disaster response such as emergency evcuation, quarantine, mass decontamination, etc. and also supporting, and rebuilding society after natural or human-made disasters have occurred. In general, any disaster management is the continuous process by which all individuals, groups, and communities manage hazards in an effort to avoid or ameliorate the impact of disasters resulting from the hazards. Actions taken depend in part on perceptions or risk of those exposed. Effective disaster management relies on thorough integration of emergency plans at all levels of government and non-government involvement. Activities at each level (individual, group, community) affect the other levels. It is common to place the responsibility for governmental emergency management with the institutions for civil defense or within the conventional structure of the disaster services. The nature of management depends on local economic and social conditions. Experts have noted that the cycle of disaster management must include long-term work on infrastructure, public awareness, and even human justice issues. The process of disaster management involves four phases, namely mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. This Manual is an assimilation of a lot of public domain material in a structured format so as to be useful to students as well as practitioners of the science of Disaster Management.

ABOUT Author

Parag Diwan : ``Dr. Parag Diwan is a high technology buff, having worked with organizations like NASA and Semiconductors Complex Ltd. Different facets of high technology from rocket science to microcircuits fascinate him. Currently, apart from his other multifarious interests and responsibilities, he is deeply interested in harnessing the power of ten raised to minus nine(10-9), i.e.the nano-world. He the currently Vice-Chancellor of the University of Petroleum & Energy Studies. Prior to this he was the Dean and Director of the All India Management Association (AIMA). He has also been the CEO of a dot-com venture in the golden days of the Ecommerce revolution. He has authored and edited over 40 books, 200 technical and research papers and many multimedia (CD-ROM) & Video) based learning modules. Dr. Rajeev K. Gupta is assistant Professor of Physics department, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun, Uttrakhand. He obtained his M.Sc. degree from C.C.S. University, Meerut. He has nearly years teaching and research experience. He spent many years as a faculty in the department of Physics at Northern India based Technological Institutes and he has the credit of all initial developments of the laboratory. His area of interest is ion beam irradiation and Polymer metal nanocomposites. Dr. Gupta Guided two Ph.D candidates in the fields of ion beam irradiation. His one of the published article has been included in the ``Energy Citations Database``, an official website of department of Energy (DOE), U.S.A. as bibliographic records of important literature in disciplines of interest to DOE. Dr. Gupta is the coauthor of many books like Electronics Engineering, Solid State Devices & Circuits and Experiments in Electronics an Electrical Engineering. He has published several research papers at international levels. ``