Author: L. R. ReddyPublisher: APH Publishing
ISBN: 9788176482523
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Account of Gujarat earthquake of January 26, 2001.
The Pain and Horror
Author: L. R. ReddyPublisher: APH Publishing
ISBN: 9788176482523
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Account of Gujarat earthquake of January 26, 2001.
Gujarat Earthquake, 26th January 2001
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This Volume Documents The Devastating Gujarat Earthquake Of 26 January 2001. Contents Cover: Earthquakes-The Broader Perspective - Devastated Gujarat - The Response - Macro-Level Gujarat Profile - Sectoral Issues-Damage Assessment And Rehabilitation/Reconstruction Programme - Rehabilitation Effort District Kutch (End Noveber, 2001) - Overview Of Rehabilitation Effort In The State - Salient Features And The Lessons Learnt. 10 Annexures - 11 Maps - Number Of Colour Illustration. Condition As Good As New.
The Political Biography of an Earthquake
Author: Edward SimpsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781849042871
Category : Disasters
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For those so-minded, the aftermath of an earthquake presents opportunities to intervene. Thus, in Gujarat, following the disaster of 2001, leaders were deposed, proletariats created, religious fundamentalism incubated, the state restructured, and industrial capital- ism expanded exponentially. Rather than gazing in at those struggling in the ruins, as is commonplace in the literature, this book looks out from the affected region at those who came to intervene. Based on extensive research amid the dust and noise of re- construction, the author focuses on the survivors and their interactions with death, history, and with those who came to use the shock of disaster to change the order of things. Edward Simpson takes us deep into the experience of surviving a 'natural' disaster. We see a society in mourning, further alienated by manufactured conditions of uncertainty and absurdity. We witness arguments about the past. What was important? What should be preserved? Was modernisation the cause of the disaster or the antidote? As people were putting things back together, they also knew that future earthquakes were inevitable. How did they learn to live with this terrible truth? How have people in other times and places come to terms with the promise of another earthquake, knowing that things will fall apart again?
The Political Biography of an Earthquake
Author: Edward SimpsonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199359929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For those so-minded, the aftermath of an earthquake presents opportunities to intervene. Thus, in Gujarat, following the disaster of 2001, leaders were deposed, proletariats created, religious fundamentalism incubated, the state restructured, and industrial capital-ism expanded exponentially. Rather than gazing in at those struggling in the ruins, as is commonplace in the literature, this book looks out from the affected region at those who came to intervene. Based on extensive research amid the dust and noise of reconstruction, the author focuses on the survivors and their interactions with death, history, and with those who came to use the shock of disaster to change the order of things. Edward Simpson takes us deep into the experience of surviving a "natural" disaster. We see a society in mourning, further alienated by manufactured conditions of uncertainty and absurdity. We witness arguments about the past. What was important? What should be preserved? Was modernisation the cause of the disaster or the antidote? As people were putting things back together, they also knew that future earthquakes were inevitable. How did they learn to live with this terrible truth? How have people in other times and places come to terms with the promise of another earthquake, knowing that things will fall apart again?
Recovering from Earthquakes
Author: Shirish PatelPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136518088
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Earthquakes come without warming, and often cause massive devastation, resulting not only in the loss of property but also of lives. Many of the survivors suffer from intense and lasting psychological trauma. This book covers the experience of recent earthquakes in India, and what has been learnt (and what we have failed to learn) in the process of managing the aftermath in each case. This includes immediate medical attention, long-term mental health care, and the reconstruction of housing and infrastructure in both rural and urban areas. The experiences of the contributors, many of whom have actively contributed their expertise to disaster management and recovery, help us understand what problems require a swift response and which aspects should be based on detailed analyses keeping in mind local conditions. Reconstruction is seen as offering an opportunity to rebuild society such that all sections of the population are empowered and brought into the community’s decision-making process. It is also an opportunity to develop construction techniques that are suited to local materials and skills but are also more earthquake-resistant than the old. And finally, there is the realisation that the best first responders are local community groups which need to be nurtured, and trained in crisis management and risk mitigation.
Major Quake Likely to Strike Between 2000 and 2030
Author: Earthquake Information Bulletin
Author: 12th June 1897, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India
Author: Richard Dixon OldhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Contains extracts from the 1981 reprint of the 1899 Memoirs. Issued by the Survey in 1997 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Assam earthquake.
City Of Fear: Staying Normal in Abnormal Times
Author: Robin DavidPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9789351160687
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
An extraordinary account of ordinary people in troubled times In 2001, a calamitous earthquake struck Gujarat. A year later came the kind of communal carnage the nation had not seen since the Partition. For Robin David, then an assistant editor with the Times of India, the two events engendered a tectonic shift in his own life. The earthquake left deep cracks in his ancestral home, while the riots undermined all the certainties of life, making it impossible to walk through hitherto familiar neighbourhoods. A decade later, the wounds have not healed. At a time when the memory of the riots has already faded in the minds of many, City of Fear documents the varied forms of fear that people in Gujarat experienced during that period, especially those of the author's own Indian Jewish Bene Israeli family.
The Plan to Coordinate NEHRP Post-earthquake Investigations
Author: Thomas L. HolzerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description