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

• Autore: Bhandari Rajendra Kumar
• Pubblicazione: New Delhi : , : Springer, , 2014
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2014.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxviii, 349 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
• Disciplina: 904.5
• Soggetto topico: Disasters; Emergency management
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Disaster education and management
• ISBN: 81-322-1566-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910298385603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II