Syllabus

Module I: Meaning and types of hazards, disasters, and catastrophes (7 hours)
Disaster Management, Earthquakes: causes and effects, measurements, earthquake zones India, vulnerability and micro zonation, volcanic hazards.

Module II: Landslides, Cyclones, Flooding, and Drought (7 hours)
Causes and effects: Landslide-prone zones in India, Cyclone: Origin and types, effects on land and sea, damage assessment, Flooding: Tsunami, Soil Erosion, Drought Characteristics, Occurrence, Preventive measures.

Module III: Emerging Approaches in Disaster Management (7 hours)
Pre-disaster stage (preparedness), Preparing hazard zonation maps, Predictability/forecasting and warning, Preparing disaster preparedness plan, Land use zoning, Disaster resistant house construction, Population reduction in vulnerable areas, Awareness.

Module IV: Emergency stage (8 hours)
Rescue training for search and operation at national and regional levels, Immediate relief, Assessment surveys, Post Disaster stage, Rehabilitation Political Administrative Aspect, Social Aspect, Economic Aspect, Environmental Aspect, Mitigation, Role of Media, Monitoring Management, Preventive Measures, A regional survey of Land Subsidence, Coastal Disaster, Cyclonic Disaster and Disaster in Hills with particular reference to India, Ecological planning for sustainability and sustainable development in India-Sustainable rural development.

Module V: Soft Solutions for Disaster Management (7 hours)
Case studies: Earthquake, volcano, and landslide, Flood-prone area analysis and management, Risk assessment, Cyclones and floods, Drought and desertification.

To provide students with an understanding of the need to study disaster management.

To understand the various types of disasters and the risk and vulnerability analysis associated with the disasters.

To create awareness about disaster prevention and risk reduction and to establish the relationship between disasters and developments.

To understand Rehabilitation, Reconstruction, and Recovery in the event of a Disaster.

CO1: The students will be able to understand the need to study disaster management.
CO2: The students will learn about the various types of disasters and the risk and vulnerability analysis associated with the disasters.
CO3: The students will be able to learn the various approaches to Disaster Management.
CO4: The students will be able to learn disaster prevention and risk reduction awareness.
CO5: The students will be able to provide solutions to Disaster Management.

National Disaster Management Division, Disaster Management in India - A Status Report, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi

United Nations Disasters Relief Organization, Guidelines for Hazard Evaluation Procedures, United Nations Disasters Relief Organization, Vienna

R. Nagarajan, Landslide Disaster Assessment and Monitoring, Anmol Publications, New Delhi

Mu. Ramkumar, Geological Hazards: Causes, Consequences, and Methods of Containment, New India Publishing Agency