Editors:
- Covers all aspects of climate, extreme events & disaster risk management in atmosphere, biosphere & cryosphere
- Elucidates latest evidence based approach in risk and vulnerability analysis
- Suggest sustainability based solutions to adapt and mitigate disaster events
Part of the book series: Disaster Resilience and Green Growth (DRGG)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Overview and Strategies
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Front Matter
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Tools and Techniques
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Front Matter
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Case Studies
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Front Matter
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India
Manish Kumar Goyal
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ECDRM Division, National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi, India
Anil Kumar Gupta
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Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, India
Akhilesh Gupta
About the editors
Prof. Anil Kumar Gupta is a sustainability risk management strategist working in the area of disaster management, environment and climate resilience for more than 25 years with national, sub-national and business administrations. He is currently a full Professor and Head of India’s National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) Division of Environment and Disaster Risk Management. He is Programme Director of the Centre for Excellence on Climate Resilience and implementing projects, viz. CAP-RES (with DST, under National Knowledge Mission on Climate Change), National Agriculture Disaster Management Plan (with Ministry of Agriculture & Farmer’s Welfare). He was a recipient of Excellence Award by the Society of Environmental & Occupational Health, and bestowed with IDRC Canada’s Thank Tank Initiative Senior Fellowship 2011 for policy research.
Dr. Akhilesh Gupta is presently Secretary of the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB). Also, Dr. Gupta currently heads the Policy Coordination and Programme Management Division (PCPM) division and is the overall in charge of 5 National Missions at DST-- National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical System, National Mission on Quantum Technology and Applications, National Super-computing Mission, National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change and National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem. A distinguished atmospheric scientist, Dr Gupta has to his credit over 200 research articles in National & International journals as well as proceedings. He is editor of 5 books and author of over 350 articles and nearly 1000 reports. He is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE), Indian Meteorological Society (FIMS) and Association of Agro-meteorologists (FAAM).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hydro-Meteorological Extremes and Disasters
Editors: Manish Kumar Goyal, Anil Kumar Gupta, Akhilesh Gupta
Series Title: Disaster Resilience and Green Growth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0725-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0724-1Published: 30 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0727-2Published: 31 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-0725-8Published: 29 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-4885
Series E-ISSN: 2662-4893
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 328
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Water, general, Environment, general, Sustainable Development, Waste Management/Waste Technology