1st Edition
Political Economy of Disaster Risk Financing in India Exploring the Strategic Dimensions
Introduction PART I: DISASTER RISK FINANCING: ANALYSING APPROACHES, POLICIES, AND INSTITUTIONS 1. Exploring the Approaches of Disaster Risk Financing 2. Disaster Risk Financing in India: Analysings of the Policy Framework 3. Finance Commission: Engineering the Disaster Risk Financing Schemes PART II: STRATEGIC DOMAINS OF DISASTER RISK FINANCING 4. Methodology of Disaster Risk Financing in India: A Contested Domain 5. States’ Concerns and Central Responses for Disaster Risk Financing: Mapping the Federal Discourse 6. Local Governance: A Missing Pillar in Disaster Financing 7. Foreign Aid: Mapping India’s Global Outreach PART III: TRANSITIONING TO DISASTER RESILIENCE 8. Disaster Risk Financing in India: Exploring the Alternative Sources of Funding 9. Disaster Resilient Infrastructure: Locating Directions and Resources 10. Insurance and Disaster Risk Financing: Alleviating the Risk
Biography
Sanjay Sharma is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Pondicherry University, India. Presently, he is on deputation as Head of the Research and Innovation Centre at the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM) in Delhi. He has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. He has published high-quality research papers on Disaster Risk Financing in SAGE journals, completed two major projects, and co-authored one book titled Global Politics.
