1st Edition
From Hazard to Disaster The Vulnerability of People in South Asia
Chapter 1: Introduction: Natural Hazard and People’s Vulnerability to Disaster in South Asia
Chapter 2: Vulnerability Matters: The Political Economy of the Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal
Chapter 3: Living on the Margins: The Tragedy of Deluges, Development and Human Vulnerability
Chapter 4: Unlocking the Pakistan Earthquake of 2005 through the Lens of Vulnerability
Chapter 5: Super Cyclone and the Dynamics of Evacuation Behaviour in India
Chapter 6: Interrogating the Gendered Vulnerability to Tsunami Disaster in Sri Lanka
Chapter 7: A Study of Mental Health Consequences of Cyclone ‘Thane’, India
Chapter 8: The Structural Vulnerability of Women with Disabilities to Disaster
Chapter 9: Social Capital as Catalyst for Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction
Chapter 10: Conclusion: Strengthening Local Community Resilience in Disaster Risk Reduction
Biography
Pradeep Kumar Parida is Professor of Sociology at Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India. He has contributed extensively to sociology of disasters with publications appearing in various international and national journals. He has been in the field of academics for the last 27 years and developed keen interest in sociology of development and sociology of disasters, importantly in the social dimensions of environmental risks and hazards. He is the editor of the book Natural Disaster and Women: The Gendered Perspective.
