Disasters, Strengthening Community Mitigation & Preparedness

摘要

Disasters are both natural and manmade and cause widespread loss to living beings and property. To understand the causes of disasters and how to mitigate such eventualities is need of the hour. Current book with an objective of providing knowledge on disaster management in order to cope up natural and manmade disasters is welcome addition. The book contains 15 chapters including one chapter on introduction, which defines hazard, risk and disaster and presents a brief account of disaster management.