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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Amita SinghPublisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore Imprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore Edition: 1st ed. 2023 Weight: 5.377kg ISBN: 9789811983870ISBN 10: 9811983879 Pages: 2585 Publication Date: 02 October 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsAccountability in Disaster Law.- Property Rights for Disaster Recovery.- Mainstreaming Gender in Community-based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM).- Man-made disaster – a case of failed governance in a LatAm economy.- Indigenous Knowledge and Early Warning Systems.- Approach for mitigating the effects of natural disasters : A study with special reference to Uttarakhand and Himachal Flash Floods.- Disasters and Health Emergencies.- Inclusive Strategy: Key to Institutional Preparedness Against Disasters.- Building Disaster Resilient Coastal Cities : An Assessment of Coastal Regulation Laws and Judicial Statements in India.- Caring for Pets and Homeless Animals During a Pandemic: An Animal Welfare Lesson for the South Asian Region.- Public Sector Continuity Planning: Preparing the Bureaucracy in the Age of the New Normal.- Welfare Policies, Institutions and Distributive Justice in times of Pandemic: Insights on Inclusive Governance from India.- An Investigation into Sustainable Strategiesfor the Conservation of Water Resources: A Case Study.- Community Resilience and Chronic Flood in Imphal City.- Requisition of Resources and Payment of Compensation under the Indian Disaster Law – A Study of COVID 19 Pandemic.- From Sunderbans to Kolkata: Disaster Displacement, Management and Mitigation.- A Study of Animal Behaviour and Natural Disasters.- Inter-Agency Coordination in Disaster Management.- Disaster Management and Police: Managing Law and Order.- Post-2019 Floods, Epidemic Control in Bihar.- Coastal Resilience and Urbanization Challenges in India.- Ethics, Law and Morality in Disaster Management: A Tale of International Law.- Federalism and Its Impact on Emergency: Transforming Response to Disasters.- Exploring Disaster Mitigation Strategies: E-governance as a Critical Enabler.- Managing the Dead During Disasters.- Building Resilience against Nuclear Disaster.- COVID-19 Combat and Beyond: Challenges for the NDMA.- Covid-19 Pandemic and Women’s Reproductive and Sexual Health.- Disaster Preparedness in the Context of the Mt.Apo Natural Park in the Philippines.- Resilient Cities, Vulnerable Communities: Disaster Governance in the Coastal Cities in Indonesia.- Coastal Settlement Vulnerability on Risk of Abration Disaster.- Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic and Natural Disasters on Businesses in the Pacific: Preparing for unknown future disruptions.- Post-Disaster Dispute Resolution: A New Zealand Case Study.- Business Continuity Planning (BCB) for Critical Infrastructure - Airport’s perspective.- Disability and Disasters.- Land Management and Disasters.- An Integrated Approach Towards Smart and Resilient Cities.- Space Technology and Disaster Medicine NASA/Landsat7 based retrospective Study of Haiti 2010 Cholera Epidemic.- Role of Data Science in Disaster Risk Reduction: Experiences from the Global South.ReviewsAuthor InformationAmita Singh is President of NDRG, an Asia Pacific (NAPSIPAG) Disaster Research Group, a Senior Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi and Senior Distinguished Visiting Professor at the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. She superannuated from the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2020 where she has also been the Founder Chairperson of the Special Centre for Disaster Research. She is member of the International Network for Disaster Studies and serves on the Board of many key international journals on disaster studies. Prof. Singh is trained in Political Science, Public Administration and Law (MA, LLB. PhD). She is widely known for her grassroot transdisciplinary governance research with research collaborations spanning through many universities and government departments in India, South Asia, USA and Australia. Her work on implementation studies and best practices in community initiatives started in 2006 at the Hawke Centre of the University of South Australia, Adelaide. She further collaborated with the Global Innovators Network, at the Kennedy School, Harvard University and IT for Women Initiative at Maryland University Baltimore (2004-2006). She has been awarded the Australia-India Council (2006) and Australian Government-Monash Fellowship(2016). In 2016-2017 she was Visiting Professor at the American University at Washington DC. She has also served as a member of the Jury and Advisory Board of UNESCO-Netexplo International University at Paris and has presented her study of NGO led best practices at the UN General Assembly. She has supervised a large number of PhD students who adorn prestigious positions in academics and in administration. She has authored and edited many books and several national and international research papers besides being the ‘Series Editor’ for Palgrave-Macmillan’s ‘Global South Series on Disaster Management’ with five books in a row. She has authored some important fact finding reports ( Uttarakhand 2013 & Kerala 2018) on her collaborative empirical research related to disasters and administrative preparedness. These reports have served as lighthouses to policy makers and judiciary. As an advocate of animals and environment she has shared her experience in some daily newspapers such as the Deccan Herald, Hindustan Times and The Daily Guardian (Columnist). Her contribution to community research has been duly acknowledged in the awards bestowed upon her ie; Delhi’s ‘Public Service Award’, NALSA’s ‘Social Justice Award’, ‘Millennium Award for Women in Public Services’ and ‘e-Governance Award’. She also received the 2014 Bangladesh's National Award ‘Nawab Bahadur Syed Nawab Ali Chowdhury National Award’ in Dhaka. Prof. Singh is an ardent campaigner for habitat protection and rights of all species to share planet earth justifiably without violence. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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