INDEX

Notes for Disaster Mitigation and Management (latest syllabus AY-2021-2022)

Disaster Management & Mitigation - UNIT-I

Disaster Management & Mitigation - UNIT-II

Disaster Management & Mitigation - UNIT-III

Disaster Management & Mitigation - UNIT-IV

Disaster Management & Mitigation - UNIT-V

IMPORTANT ABBREVIATIONS

Types of hydrometeorological disasters and geographical based disasters

Ways in which remote sensing and GIS help in disaster mitigation and management

Bhopal gas tragedy as a chemical industrial disaster

Differences between human induced and human made disasters

Natural Disasters

Crowdsourcing and ICT in disaster management

Instruments used to predict occurrence of natural disasters

Landslides and use of remote sensing to predict their occurrence

APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE SENSING & GIS IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT - 1

List of Indian Remote Sensing Satellites

Disaster Management Information System (DMIS)

Traffic accidents becoming a hazard - An example (Case study)

Effects of a major power breakdown

Risk and Vulnerability in the context of disaster management

Vulnerability of India to disasters

Classification of disasters

Desertification

Drought

Avalanche

Landslides

DRR - Disaster Risk Reduction

Definition of Disaster

International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction - IDNDR

Floods in India

What is disaster management & Disaster Management Cycle

Tsunami

Disaster Management Continuum

National Disaster Management Structure

Avalanche

Cyclones

Natural Disasters - Hydrometeorological based disasters

Introduction to Disaster Management

Geospatial technologies currently used for Disaster Mitigation and Management

The following questions for the course on Disaster management and mitigation have actually appeared on previous final examination question papers!

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT & MANAGEMENT

Important material for disaster management (Overall in brief - few topics in the syllabus might not be covered)

Geo-spatial technologies in disaster management

Major power breakdowns as a disaster

Warning and forecasting methods in disaster management

Vulnerability and Risk in disaster management

GIS in disaster management

What is GIS

What is Remote Sensing

Notes, and website links - REFERENCES

Man-made and Human-Induced disasters in detail

Very useful website (blog)

Disaster Mitigation

Names given to cyclones in different parts of the world

Landslide Vs Avalanche - The difference

Methods to measure an earthquake

Characteristics of natural disasters

Man-made disasters and Human-induced disasters

Natural Disasters - Tsunami: Causes, Effects and response

Warning and forecasting of Earthquakes

Warning and forecasting of Tsunami

Warning and early forecasting of droughts

Forecasting and warning of landslides

Warning & forecasting of floods