[R B Singh]

Introduction to Natural Hazards and Disasters

Conceptual Framework, Vulnerability, Spatial

Pattern, Impacts and Mitigation Strategy: Indian Experience

R. B. Singh





Natural hazards are extreme events and disasters are potential risks to these events. With burgeoning population pressure, urban industrial growth, deforestation and cultivation of

marginal lands the human-induced hazards have also increased. In recent years natural hazards have increased manifolds, lives have been lost and property destruction has taken place. Poverty, population growth and environmental degradation are the main causes of vulnerability in natural disaster. Therefore, understanding concepts of hazards, disasters, vulnerability, risk, and mitigation is essential for disaster management. Disaster management priorities vary between developed and developing countries (Table 1).

Among the top ten countries in terms of average annual loss of lives due to natural disasters, all except Australia are developing countries. India, amongst those nations is the most vulnerable to natural hazards. Due to its geographical position, 


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