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This document outlines the course objectives, units, and outcomes for a disaster management course. The objectives are to provide exposure to disasters and approaches to disaster risk reduction. The 5 units cover disaster risk reduction approaches and frameworks, the relationship between disasters and development, and case studies of different disaster types. The course aims to help students differentiate disaster types, assess vulnerability and risk reduction methods, and understand India's hazard and vulnerability profile as well as disaster damage assessment and management. The suggested textbooks provide further information on these topics.

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This document outlines the course objectives, units, and outcomes for a disaster management course. The objectives are to provide exposure to disasters and approaches to disaster risk reduction. The 5 units cover disaster risk reduction approaches and frameworks, the relationship between disasters and development, and case studies of different disaster types. The course aims to help students differentiate disaster types, assess vulnerability and risk reduction methods, and understand India's hazard and vulnerability profile as well as disaster damage assessment and management. The suggested textbooks provide further information on these topics.

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Course Objective:

 To provide students an exposure to disasters, their significance and types.


 To ensure that students begin to understand the relationship between
vulnerability,
 disasters, disaster prevention and risk reduction
 To gain a preliminary understanding of approaches of Disaster Risk Reduction
(DRR)
 To enhance awareness of institutional processes in the country and
 To develop rudimentary ability to respond to their surroundings with potential
 disaster response in areas where they live, with due sensitivity

Unit I

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Unit II

Approaches To Disaster Risk Reduction (Drr)


Disaster cycle – Phases, Culture of safety, prevention, mitigation and preparedness
community based DRR, Structural- nonstructural measures, Roles and responsibilities
of- community, Panchayati Raj
Institutions/Urban Local Bodies (PRIs/ULBs), States, Centre, and other stake-holders-
Institutional Processess and Framework at State and Central Level- State Disaster
Management Authority(SDMA) – Early Warning System – Advisories from Appropriate
Agencies.

Unit III

Inter-Relationship Between Disasters and Development


Factors affecting Vulnerabilities, differential impacts, impact of Development projects
such as dams, embankments, changes in Land-use etc.- Climate Change Adaptation-
IPCC Scenario and Scenarios in the context of India – Relevance of indigenous
knowledge, appropriate technology and local resources.

Unit IV

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Unit V

Disaster Management: Applications and Case Studies and Field Works


Landslide Hazard Zonation: Case Studies, Earthquake Vulnerability Assessment of
Buildings and Infrastructure: Case Studies, Drought Assessment: Case Studies, Coastal
Flooding: Storm Surge Assessment, Floods: Fluvial and Pluvial Flooding: Case Studies;
Forest Fire: Case Studies, Man Made disasters: Case Studies, Space Based Inputs for
Disaster Mitigation and Management and field works related to disaster management.

Course Outcome:

The students will be able to

 Differentiate the types of disasters, causes and their impact on environment and
society
 Assess vulnerability and various methods of risk reduction measures as well as
mitigation.
 Draw the hazard and vulnerability profile of India, Scenarious in the Indian
context, Disaster damage assessment and management.

Text Books:

1. Singhal J.P. Disaster Management, Laxmi Publications, 2010. ISBN-10:


9380386427 ISBN-13: 978-9380386423
2. Tushar Bhattacharya, Disaster Science and Management, McGraw Hill India
Education Pvt. Ltd., 2012. ISBN-10: 1259007367, ISBN-13: 978-1259007361]
3. Gupta Anil K, Sreeja S. Nair. Environmental Knowledge for Disaster Risk
Management, NIDM, New Delhi, 2011
4. Kapur Anu Vulnerable India: A Geographical Study of Disasters, IIAS and Sage
Publishers, New Delhi, 2010.

References:

1. Govt. of India: Disaster Management Act , Government of India, New Delhi, 2005
2. Government of India, National Disaster Management Policy,2009.

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