About the Book: Disaster Science and Management The incidence of disaster is now increasing due to various factors including climate change and associated human, economic, infrastructural, and environmental losses are increasing at an alarming rate. Disasters are the biggest obstacles in achieving the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations and most nations have ratified this. In India, almost every year the total loss due to disasters is approximately 2% of GDP when yearly investment by the Government of India on a very important sector: education is 4.1% of the GDP. Contents Global Disaster Perspective 1.1 GlobalNantural RiskSpecific Profilesflood The Definition of Disaster: Its Relationship with Human Development 2.1 Definitation 2.2 Types of Disasters 2.3 Relationship Between Disaster and Human and Development 2.4 Disaster Management Cycle Details of Types of Disasters 3.1 Water and Climate Related Disasters 3.2 Geosciences Related Disasters 3.3 Industrial, Nuclear and Chemical disasters 3.4 Accident Related Disasters 3.5 Biological Disasters 3.6 Disasters Caused due to Social, Ethnic and Religious Conflicts Engineering And Technical Aspects of Disasters 4.1 Disasters Caused due to Engineering and Technical Failure 4.2 Earthquake Engineering 4.3 Coastal engineering 4.4 Technology and Disaster Management 4.5 Quantative risk Assessment 4.6 Pollution Control and Monitoring Environmental Aspects of Disasters 5.1 Introduction 5.2 A Case Study of Arsenic Contamination in West Bengal5 5.3 Applied Ecology, Environmental- Chemistry Toxicology Geology Remote Urban Disasters 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Selected City Specific Vulnerability (in alphabetic order) Climate Change 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Probable Impacts of Climate Change 7.3 Greenhouse Gases 7.4 Responses to Climate Change Impact of Disasters 8.1 Introduction 8. - from Amzon