5th World Congress on Disaster Management: Volume II
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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 challenges as well as hold the best possible promise of building resilience to disasters. These are Technology, Finance, and Capacity. WCDM has emerged as the largest global conference on disaster management outside the UN system. The fifth WCDM was attended by more than 2500 scientists, professionals, policy makers and practitioners all around the world despite the prevalence of pandemic.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgement
Part 1: Living with Floods—Case Studies in Flood Risk Management
1. Assessing Vulnerability, Coping Mechanism & Adaptive Capacity of Community During Urban Floods:
A Case of Kerala Floods 2018
B. Sneha Singh and Anil Kumar Roy
2. Flooding Problems in Periyar River Basin, Kerala—The Effects of Land Use Land Cover Changes
Kashish Sadhwani, T. I. Eldho and Subhankar Karmakar
3. Attitudinal Capacity and Flood Risk Management of the People of Kerala after the Flood Disaster
M. V. Bindu
4. Kosi Floods in Bihar: A Study from Anthropological Perspective
Rahul Kumar Yaduka
5. Operation Research on Flash Flood in River Dhauli Ganga On 7th February, 2021 at Tapovan—
Raini Village, Joshimath, Chamoli
Aditya Pratap Singh
6. Multi-Stakeholder Planning and Coordination for Flood Risk Reduction in Bihar
Vivek Kumar Singh, Geetanjali Kumari, Amrita Dhiman and Amritanjali Kumari
7. Urban Floods in the Time of Pandemic—Hyderabad 2020
Vijaya Kumari Nunna
8. Himalayan Flash Floods, the Complexities and Challenges in Mitigation: Case Study of Chamoli Disaster
Agraj Upadhyay, S. K. Joshi and P. K. Satyawali
Part 2: Planning and Managing Risks of Floods and River Erosion
9. Cloudburst Induced Flood Assessment in the North-Western Himalayan Region—
A Case Study of Upper Beas Basin
Sachchidanand Singh and Mitthan Lal Kansal
10. PARA-FM: Graphical User Interface for Emergency Flood Planning and Management
Utsav Rai, Durgakant Pushp, Aditya Choudhary, Amit Kumar, Chaitanya B., Rolif Lima, Abhinay N. S.,
Rudrashis Majumder, Shuvrangshu Jana, Kaushik Das and Debasish Ghose
11. Flood Response to Geomorphic Setup and Coastal Land Use Patterns: A Case Study in
Krishna River Delta, Andhra Pradesh, India
M. V. Ramana Murty, K. Mruthyunjaya Reddy and K. V. Swamy
12. Flood Hazard Mapping for Disaster Management: Multisectoral Approach for a Riverine Region
Deeksha Biswas and Anurag Bagade
13. Benefit-Cost Analysis of Flood Management, A Case Study of Jammu and Kashmir
Kowser Ali Jan and R. Balaji
14. Tackling River Erosion: A Post-Disaster Transformative Framework
Siji Chacko and Anil Kumar
15. Flood Inundation Mapping Using C-band Synthetic-aperture Radar and Random Forest Algorithm:
A Methodological Basis
Swapnil Singh Parihar and Shafique Matin
16. Public-Private-People Partnership (4P) Framework for Managing Floods in Raigad [MH]
A. N. Chavan, S. M. Pore and S. R. Bhagat
17. Role of Kerala Fire & Rescue Services Department in Handling Kerala Floods 2018
B. Sandhya IPS, Nousad M. and Abdul Rasheed K.
Part 3: Cyclone Risk Mitigation and Management
18. Impact and Management of Super Cyclone Amphan in Odisha
D. Panda and M. Devi
19. At the Cross-roads in Cyclone-prone Odisha: Titli—The Butterfly’s Duel with Development
Geeta Vaidyanathan and Ramani Sankaranarayanan
20. Resilient Settlements Amid Cyclonic Storm—Empirical Evidence on Factors at Play from
Southwest Coastal Bangladesh
Sumaiyah Binte Mamun and Khandaker Shabbir Ahmed
21. Climate Change Induced Cyclones in Arabian Sea and Mitigating the Emerging Risks for Small
Scale Fishermen Community
Vaishnavi and Katyayini Sood
22. Vulnerability Assessment of a Cyclone Affected Community Kapateswar, Puri Sadar
Chestha Khurana and Meghna Chatterji
23. Evolution of Vulnerability to Cyclones: A Study of Storm Surge Vulnerability in the
Coastal Blocks of South Twenty-four Parganas, West Bengal During 1997–2019
Nandita Singh and Neeti Neeti
24. Study and Impact of Cyclones Over Coastal Regions of India
Aakanksha Darge and S. R. Bhagat
Part 4: Managing Risks of Drought
25. Machine Learning Tools and Techniques for Prediction of Droughts
Rashmi Nitwane, Vaishali D. Bhagile and R. R. Deshmukh
26. Assessment of Rainfall Variability and Drought Features in Bundelkhand Region of
Madhya Pradesh, India
R. V. Galkate, R. P. Pandey and Shalini Yadava
27. Drought Crisis In Rajasthan and Their Management
Harish Samaria
28. Floods as Prequels to Droughts and Lessons for Drought Resilience
I. Kavila, B. V. Hari and Amrutha Sasidharan
29. Reliability, Resilience, and Vulnerability Risk Assessment of Extreme Hydrological Disasters
Using Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) of India
Sachin Bhere and Manne Janga Reddy
30. A Survey of Drought Impact and Mitigation in the State of Telangana
Vijaya Kumari Nunna
Part 5: Climate Change and Disasters—New Dimensions
31. Role of Local Sea-level Rise on Disaster Exposure in Coastal Island
Vinay S., Aishwarya N. and Bharath H. A.
32. Spatial Variability of Climate Extreme Indices Over Mahanadi Basin (India)
R. K. Jaiswal, A. K. Lohani, R. V. Galkate and S. Jain
33. Climate Change—Induced Natural Disaster: A Case Study of 2013 Kedarnath Disaster,
Uttrakhand
Neha Gupta, Josodhir Das and James Xavier Paul
34. Framework for Evaluating the Physical Infrastructure Vulnerability Due to Relative Sea-Level
Rise in Coastal Districts of Kerala—Case of Alappuzha
R. S. Vishnu and Anurup K.
35. Increasing Risk of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) as a Consequence of Climate Change
in the Himalayan Region
Ahmed Faraz Khan
36. Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Modelling
A. K. Lohani, Sanjay K. Jain and R. K. Jaiswal
37. Comparative Analysis of Developed, Developing and Underdeveloped Countries in Regards to
Climate Change and Global Policies
Aanchal Pundir
38. The Most Credible 05 Elements to Tackle Displacement in Nearest 10 Years of Asia
Mahendra Jagath Kuragodage
39. Climate Change and its Interconnectedness with Natural Disasters: A Global Perspective
Areeba Naaz and Parvez Hayat IPS
40. Climate-Induced Displacement and Climate Disaster Law: Challenges and Opportunities
Sunil Kumar Chaudhary
41. Climate Hazards and the Role of Local Authorities: Exploring the Indian Legal Framework
Chandrika Mehta
Part 6: Technological Disasters
42. An Incident of Styrene Monomer Gas Poisoning at Visakhapatnam
Chandrasekhar Krishnamurti, M. D., Saurabh Dalal and Mounika Jonnavittula House Surgeon
43. Chemical Disaster: Leakage of Styrene Gas at L. G. Polymers, Vishakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh)
Anupam Srivastava
44. Managing a Blackout—The Consequences of an Oil Spill at Sea
Malini S. Shankar and K. M. Sivakholundu
45. Baghjan Fire: A Case Study of the ‘2020 Assam Gas and Oil Leak’ at Baghjan Oil Field,
Tinsukia, Assam
Swapnali Gogoi, Bubu Baruah and Annekha Chetia
46. Assessing the Risk of Fire Hazard: A Case Study of Delhi
Kanika Bhatia and Aakash Upadhyay
47. CBRN Management in India
Pankaj Kumar
48. Covid-19 Necessitates Review of Existing Framework for Management of CBRN
Disasters/Emergencies in India
Brigadier Kamal Singh Chauhan
Part 7: Other Disasters
49. Are Strong Aftershocks Always Triggered by a Positive Coulomb Stress Change?:
A Case Study of the 2018 Indonesia (Sulawesi) MW 7.5 Tsunamigenic Earthquake
Nazeel Sabah and Daya Shanker
50. Sedimentation Modeling of 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Towards Early Warning Strategy
Abdullah Ansari, Javed N Malik and Shivam Tripathi
51. Forest Fire Risk Zone Mapping in Parambikulam Tiger Reserve, Western Ghats, Kerala, India
Using Geospatial Techniques and Fire Risk Index (FRI) Method
Shalu George, Kripa K., Anbazhagi S. and Muthukumar Muthuchamy
52. Forest Fire Early Detection System using Wireless Beacon Network and UAV based Object Detection
Amal Sujith, Sagar Sajeev and Vishnu O. V.
53. Patterns and Consequences: Australian Bushfires
Ritu Bir and Meenakshi Singh
54. Global trend of Forest Fire and its Management
Rajesh Thakur
55. Building Disaster Resilience to Cloud Burst Events in Uttrakhand, India
Anjali Saraswat and Satish Pipralia
56. Heat Wave and Outbreak of Encephalitis—A Case Study of Bihar
Sunil Kumar Chaudhary
Editor(s)
Biography
S. Ananda Babu is President of DMICS, and Convenor of WCDM.