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Contents

Page No.

Preface

v

Acknowledge

viii

List of Contributors

xi

SECTION – 1: LANT DEGRADATION, DIFFORESTATION, WETLANDS AND FOREST FIRES

1

Desertification and its Control
B.S. Jhorar and R.S. Dhillon

1

2

Land use/Cover Change in Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve Using Remote Sensing, GIS and Perception Approaches
Suraj Mal

13

3

Wetlands and their Management
Ashok Kumar Bhattacharya and Santosh Kumar Sakar

27

4

Mangroves – A Bioshield to Tsunami
Santosh Kumar Sarkar, Ashok Kumar Bhattacharya, Mousumi Chatterjee, Bhaskar Deb Bhattacharya and Kamala Kanta Satpathy

51

5

Forest Cover and Forest Fires: General History and Ecology with special Reference to Arunachal Pradesh
Nishamani Kar and Gobinda Palit

63

SECTION 2: DISASTERS AND HUMAN HEALTH

6

Global Warming and Impending Diseases
B R Mirdha, Poonam Kanwal and Nishhat Ahmed

83

7

Potential Disasters: Infectious Viral Diseases
 Kulbhushan Sharma and Sunil K Lal

101

8

Biological Terrorism and the use on Bio-Weapons: A Growing Menace to the Society
B R Mirdha, Poonam Kanwal and Nishat Ahmed

123

SECTION 3: REHABILITATION/SETTLEMENTS, RESPONSE AND RECOVERY

9

Permanent Settlement in Tsunami Affected Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Spatial Planning Approach
 J B Kshirsagar and Pawan Kumar

145

10

The Exergic Theory of Disturbance and Recovery
Colin S. Reynolds

161

SECTION 4: SOCIAL AND GENDER ISSUES

11

Why a Cultural Psychology of Trauma Reaction and Healing : The Case of Kachchh Earthquake
Kumar Ravi Priya

181

12

Women and Disaster : A Gender Perspective
Mahadevi Singh, Shakuntala Singh and Rashmi Reekha Singh

201

13

Disaster and Poverty: Strategies and Programmes for Alleviation
Nihal Singh, Mahadevi Singh and Shakuntala Singh

219

14

Women: Environmental Stewardship and Sustainable Development
Mahadevi Singh Shakuntala Singh, Rashmi Rekha Singh and Sharad Rana

249

Index

293