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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298385603321

Autore

Bhandari Rajendra Kumar

Titolo

Disaster education and management : a joyride for students, teachers, and disaster managers / / Rajendra Kumar Bhandari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi : , : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

81-322-1566-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxviii, 349 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

904.5

Soggetti

Disasters

Emergency management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Disaster Education-the Silver Bullet -- Disaster Terminology -- The world of Hazards and Disasters -- From Belief to the Basics of Disasters -- The New Awakening -- Prediction and Forecasting of Natural Disasters -- Lessons in Disaster Management -- Guide to Safety -- Annexure 1: Know about Some Major Disasters -- Annexure 2: References for Popular and Advanced reading -- They lived safely thereafter.

Sommario/riassunto

The book is expressly written for the young minds because they are our best hope for a safer tomorrow. The book is profusely illustrated, as it offers a joyride to the world of the whole range of hazards through simplified teaching-learning process, with less of teaching and more of learning. This is because most readers would love to learn without actually being taught. The book is designed to take advantage of distilled wisdom of centuries to inspire and enlighten the common man to turn them into prime movers of safer societies. Senior citizens, community leaders, self-trained disaster managers, social workers, media personnel, bureaucrats and those averse to the very thought of reading will also find the book useful as it is illustrative and inviting.