Disaster Management for GS
‘DISASTER MANAGEMENT’ covers the essentials of the newly introduced section in the syllabus taking into consideration the requirement and background of the students appearing for civil services. It has been designed keeping in view the difficulties a student may face having little or no knowledge of disasters and their mitigation strategies. Moreover, keeping in view the time constraints a Civil Services aspirant encounters, the book has been rendered a synoptic structure to facilitate easy access and relevant importation.
Salient Features of ‘DISASTER MANAGEMENT’
- Exhaustive coverage of the syllabus
- Basic concept at the beginning of each chapter
- Coverage of recent disasters and lessons learnt from them
- Coverage of administrative and community perspectives of disaster management
- Illustration in the form of diagrams and tables
- Review questions and model answers at the and
- Interrelation of topics in a multidisciplinary manner
- Insightful case studies and importations in the form of boxes in each chapter
- Completely updated and applied
The books is complete in every respect for students appearing in various UPSC Mains 2014 Examination as it covers exhaustively the entire of Disaster Management which include:
- Geological Hazards
- Atmospheric Hazards
- Environmental Hazards
- Accident Related Hazards
- Nuclear Hazards
- Disaster Management policies and schemes
- Recent legislations and bodies at centre and state levels for effective disaster mitigation
- Do’s and Don’ts during various hazards in the form of boxes
