1st Edition

5th World Congress on Disaster Management: Volume V

Edited By S. Ananda Babu Copyright 2023
576 Pages 100 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

610 Pages
by Routledge

World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM) brings researchers, policy makers and practitioners from around the world in the same platform to discuss various challenging issues of disaster risk management, enhance understanding of risks and advance actions for reducing risks and building resilience to disasters. The fifth WCDM deliberates on three critical issues that pose the most serious... Read more

Part 1: Challenges and Opportunities of Green Infrastructure

1. Challenges and Opportunities of Green Infrastructure in Urban India
Dipanjana Chakraborty

2. Harnessing Geospatial Data to Design Blue-green Infrastructure for Building Regional and Local Scale Disaster Resilience
Atul Kumar, Arjun Satheesh, Mahua Mukherjee, et al.

3. Green Infrastructure for Flood Risk Reduction: An Ecological Planning Framework
Anju John and Anjana Bhagyanathan

4. Landscape Based Mitigation Proposals for Risk Resilience in Cyclone Hit Area of Pudimadaka, Vishakhapatnam
Shreya Singh, Bhagyasri S., Yakshi Dalal, et al.

5. Developing System Dynamics Model for Flood Risk Management Through Green Infrastructure
Anjali Saraswat, Satish Pipralia and Shraddha Bahukhandi

6. Landscape Based Mitigation Proposals for Risk Resilience in Flood Prone Area of Munroe Island, Kollam, Kerala
Hajara Hilal Yusuf, Driya G Hari, Fathima Anz, et al.

7. The Importance of Re-Engineering Geo-Energy Exploitation toward the Green Energy Economy: A Critical Assessment
Mohammad R. Awal and Mohammed Deluwar Hoque

8. Cyclone Risk Resilience and Disaster Management at the Mouth of Devi River, Orissa—A Landscape Design Based Approach
Tanya Kansal, Debleena Nath, Kashish Chandel, et al.

Part 2: Environmental Issues in Disaster Risk Management
9. A Downward Spiral? Deconstructing Livelihood Diversification and Sustainability in Sundarbans Delta Region, India
Sharanya Chattopadhyay

10. Empirical Study of Air Quality w.r.t. RSPM in Air Quality Stations of India using Data Analytics
Disha Gupta and Namrata Agrawal

11. Detection of Shoreline Changes in the Highly Vulnerable Coastal Watersheds of Tamil Nadu Using DSAS
Leo George, Balasubramani K., Abarna R. and Libina R.

12. Techno-Social Approach to Ecological Risk Reduction and Resilience Building Learning from Tribes of Jharkhand
Abhishek Kumar

13. Degradation of Mangroves along Coastline of Andhra Pradesh and Strategies for Conservation
Vijaya Kumari Nunna

14. Epistemology of Coastal Sand Dune Landscape and Disaster
Indhusmathi G.

15. Rejuvenation for the Earth
D. Pramod and D. S. Prateek

16. Massive River Projects: Impact on Human and Aquatic Life (With Special Reference to River Ganges, Varanasi)
Pooja Verma and R. K. Singh

Part 3: Emerging Challenges for Urban Planning

17. Strategies for Integrating Health and Urban Planning
Riddhi Sarda and Sarika Bahadure

18. Pursuing Resilience and Inclusive Approach in Planning: The Urban Aspect of COVID-19
Shraddha Bahukhandi and Anjali Saraswat

19. COVID-19 and Resilient City: Lessons from the Pandemic
Sarika Bahadure

20. An Impact Assessment Framework of Urban Physical Characteristics to Mitigate Urban Heat Island Effects
Silpa A. S. and Lakshmi S. R.

21. Mitigation of Planning Void by Flyovers through Intersection Area Land Use planning
Aminas and Smitha M. V.

22. Disaster Risk Reduction Policies for Public Heritage Building
Moumita Majumdar and Sutapa Das

23. Urban Regeneration of Cultural Core for Building Resilience: Case Study of Nashik
Pranjal Chavanke

Part 4: Making Cities Resilient: Case Studies

24. Integrated Urban Water Management in Chandigarh Smart City
Abby Varghese and Prof. Sulochana Shekhar

25. GAPS and Challenges DRR Initiatives, Navi Mumbai
Rajeev Kumar Jha

26. Household Level Disaster Risk Knowledge in Urban Slums and Rich Community, Dhaka
Muhammad Ferdaus, Sadia Binte Azad Sristy, Sajana Tahmid Sayma et al.

27. Impact of Development on Natural Drainage—A Case of Chennai
Prakhar Rathi

28. Urban Sprawl and Climate Change Resilience in Kolkata Metropolitan Area, India
Paulami De and Anil Kumar Roy

29. Building Resilient Smart Cities: Sustainability and Inclusiveness
Zoya Khan and Parvez Hayat IPS

Part 5: Issues of Health Risk Management

30. Health Strategy During Disaster: An Economic and Pharmaconomic Approach
Usha Saxena

31. Integrating Dentists as Human Resource in Disaster Management
Siddharth Acharya MDS and Peehu Pardeshi PhD

32. Integration of Disaster Management with Public Health: A Capacity-Building Approach
Mr. Shafeeq K. Y., Sanjeev Kumar Manikappa, Sonu P. Raju, et al.

Part 6: Managing Risks of Agricultural Sector

33. A Comprehensive Technique to Agricultural Risk Management for Enhancing Resilience
Tochukwu Benedict Ezeifekwuaba

34. Contribution of Bamboo Cultivation for Disaster Risk Reduction & Livelihood in Coastal Areas of Bangladesh
Md Zahir Ahmed

35. National Flood Insurance for Sustainable Aquaculture: The Case of Minna, Nigeria
Jaiye Dukiya

36. Disaster Risk Assessment of Horticulture Farming Community for Developing Sustainable Human Settlement
Niranjana Haridas and Sangeetha K Prathap

37. Toxic Industrial Chemicals: An Emerging Disaster Threat
Himanshu Ojha and Afreen Jahan Rahman

38. “Risk Transfer as a Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction: A Critical Evaluation of Prime Ministers Crop Insurance Scheme in Karnataka”
I. Maruthi and K. Lenin Babu

Part 7: Hazard, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment: Case Studies

39. Effect of Natural Disasters in North Eastern Region of India—A Review
Dipak Basumatari, Nibir P. Borah, Rajib Das, et al.

40. Disaster Vulnerability Assessment: A Case Study of Puducherry
Riddhi Sarda and Sarika Bahadure

41. Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment of Schools in Lower Himalayas: Haridwar District, Uttarakhand, India
Shivani Chouhan, Aishwarya Narang and Mahua Mukherjee

42. Mainstreaming Risk Reduction in Planning Practices for Vulnerable Hill Settlement: A Case of Uttarakhand
Shraddha Bahukhandi and Anjali Saraswat

43. Multi-Hazard Risk Vulnerability Assessment, Case of Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
Goutham Varaprasad Naik, Neha Jaiswal and Sarika Bahadure

Part 8: Assessing and Mitigating Risks of Landslides

44. Slope Management for Himalayan Landslides
R. K. Panigrahi

45. Climate Change Impacts on Ecosystem and Himalayan Landslides
R. K. Panigrahi

46. Role of Liquefaction for Seismogenic Landslides in Road Network of Himalyan Terrain of India
R. K. Panigrahi, Alok Ranjan and V. K. Kanaujia

47. A Comparison Between Automated Tool (SMR Tool) and Graphical Approach for mode of Failure and Calculation of Slope Mass Rating Index (SMR)
Swagat Kar, Kumari Ankita and Sunil Kumar Pundir

48. Slope Failure and Stabilization of Slope in Transportation Systems in Hilly Areas
Chiranjib Sarkar, Ankit Som and Sibapriya Mukherjee

49. Causes and Mitigation for Risk Resilience in Landslide Prone Area-Kasol, Himachal Pradesh
Sanpreet Kaur Dua, Prabhsharan Singh, Rajshree Sakariya, et al.

Biography

S. Ananda Babu is President of DMICS and Convenor of WCDM