Recovering from earthquakes : response, reconstruction, and impact mitigation in India / editors, Shirish B. Patel, Aromar Revi. [Book]
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi ; Abingdon : Routledge, 2010.Description: xviii, 425 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780415562973 (hb.)
- 23 363.349580954 REC 001953
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Book | Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore | 363.349580954 REC 001953 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 001953 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Earthquakes in India: response, recovery and impact mitigation / Shirish B Patel
Disasters in India: policy overview of vulnerability, risks and human impact / Debarati Guha-Sapir and Philippe Hoyois
The Uttarkashi earthquake: management of relief and rehabilitation / Rajeev Kapoor
Earthquake reconstruction in Maharashtra: impact on assets, income and equity / Krishna S. Vatsa
A decade of lessons from Marthwada: earthquake vulnerability, politics and participatory housing / Alex Salazar and Rohit Jigyasu
Women take the lead: turing a crisis into an opportunity for development / Prema Gopalan
Compounding disasters
first natural, then man-made: failed interventions we can learn from / Sandeep Virmani
Planning the reconstruction of Bhuj / B.R. Balachandran
Participative rehabilitation: a dilemma / M.N. Joglekar
Lessons from the Gujarat experience: disaster mitigation and managment / V. Thiruppugazh and Sudhir Kumar
Disaster managment in India: policy interventions and recent initiative / Anil K. Sinha, Dr Satendra and Shikha Srivastava
Seismic retrofitting of existing non-engineered load-bearing structures / Rajendra Desai
Medical management of earthquake disasters / Brig KJ Singh
Trauma after earthquakes: mitigating the psychosocial and mental effects / R. Srinivasa Murthy
Catastrophe risk assessment and management: developing risk models for the insurance industry / Harash C. Shah and Weimin Dong
Afterword by Aromar Revi.
There are no comments on this title.