Disaster Management in India

Rajendra K. Pandey is Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, India. His tryst with the subject of disaster management began with his doctorate on 'Disaster Management in India: A Case Study of Flood Control in Delhi', University of Delhi. He has worked on many research projects and publications on its various dimensions of the subject.

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• 1. Introduction to Disaster 2. Natural Disasters 3. Manmade Disasters 4. Contextualising Disasters 5. Conceptualising Disaster Management 6. Disaster Management Cycle 7. Global Thrust for Disaster Management 8. Evolution of Disaster Management System in India 9. Disaster Profile of India 10. Disaster Management Policy 11. Legal Framework 12. Disaster mitigation: Institutional arrangement 13. Financial and federal dimensions 14. Good practices in disaster management 15. Role of science and technology in disaster management 16. Voluntary action and multilateral cooperation 17. Innovations and challenges in disaster management 18. Towards a Disaster Resilient India 19. Managing a biological disaster: the case of Covid-19.