Disaster Education and Management A Joyride for Students, Teachers and Disaster Managers /

• Main Author: Bhandari, Rajendra Kumar (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Natural disasters.; Science education.; Popular works.; Earth Sciences.; Natural Hazards.; Science Education.; Popular Science, general.

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 i...

Table of Contents:

• 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.