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| Introduction | |
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| Disaster Response in India: An Overview | |
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| A Global Profile | |
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| Disasters in South Asia | |
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| Issues of Significance | |
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| Human Rights Issues | |
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| Gender Issues | |
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| Media Reportage, Public Perceptions and Policies: Interview with Mark Tully | |
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| Health Issues | |
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| Traditional Systems of Medicine | |
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| Disability Issues | |
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| Psycho-social Consequences | |
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| Environmental Disasters | |
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| Arsenic in Groundwater | |
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| Large Dams: Disasters of Gigantism | |
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| Ecological Issues | |
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| Cities of Chaos | |
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| Urban Malplanning | |
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| Displacement of the Urban Poor in Delhi | |
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| The Science of Disasters | |
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| Disasters Mapping and Forecasting | |
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| Amateur Radios: Right Frequencies | |
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| The Role of the Internet | |
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| Role of the Government: Responsibilities, and Performance | |
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| Role of the Indian Armed Forces in Disaster Relief | |
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| Andhra Pradesh Government Policy on Disaster Management | |
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| Compensation and Insurance | |
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| Financing Disaster Response | |
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| How the Parliament Debates Disaster Issues: Interviews with Members of Parliament | |
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| NGO-Government Collaboration | |
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| Situation Reports to Resource Mobilisation | |
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| Responding with Faith | |
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| A Profile of Agencies Involved in Disaster Response | |
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| The Oxfam Experience in India | |
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| The European Community Humanitarian Office in India | |
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| Medecins Sans Frontieres in India | |
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| The SPHERE Project's Humanitarian Charter | |
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| Natural Disasters | |
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| Floods: A Small Matter of History | |
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| Bihar: Breaches of Promises | |
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| The Experience in Gudari, Orissa | |
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| Uttar Pradesh: Seeds of the Future | |
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| Lessons from Eastern Uttar Pradesh | |
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| Landslides and Floods: An Update | |
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| Droughts: Reaping Scarcity | |
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| Everybody Loves a Good Drought | |
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| Heat and Cold Waves | |
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| A Hundred Years of Droughts: An Update | |
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| Cyclones: Trapped in a Spin Cycle | |
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| Shelter during Disasters | |
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| Cyclone Mitigation Measures: Interview with A. V. S. Reddy | |
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| Tornados in the East Cost | |
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| The 1999 Super Cyclone in Orissa | |
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| Earthquakes: Reconfiguring Lives and Landscapes | |
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| Community Participation in Latur | |
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| Gender Issues in the Marathwada Earthquake | |
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| Socio-Legal Intervention in Latur | |
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| Maharashtra State Government Disaster Management Plan | |
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| Human Instigated Disasters | |
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| Communal Violence | |
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| Beyond Religion | |
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| Communal Riots: Punishing the Guilty | |
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| Dalits and Caste Conflicts | |
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| Communal Forces in India | |
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| Ethnic Conflicts in the North-East: Few Rights, Many Wronged | |
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| Peace Process in North-East: An Update | |
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| Victims of Internal Colonisation | |
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| Refugees in India | |
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| Strangers in a Strange Land: Interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama | |
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| Refugee Law: Interview with Irene Khan | |
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| Refugees from Partition | |
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| Pawns in the 'Development Game' | |
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| East Pakistan Refugees: Borders of Hope | |
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| Internal Displacement Due to Disaster and Conflicts | |
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| Other Disasters | |
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| Epidemics: Disease as Disasters | |
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| Emerging Infectious Diseases | |
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| Band-Aid Relief?: Interview with Debabar Banerjee | |
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| Fire: Blazing Questions | |
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| Industrial Disasters: Working Towards Oblivion | |
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| Bhopal Gas Tragedy | |
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| Road Accidents | |
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| Air Accidents | |
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| Railway Accidents | |
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| Pilgrimage and Festival Related Disasters | |
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| The Business of Faith | |
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| Country Papers | |
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| Nepal | |
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| Sri Lanka | |
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| Bangladesh | |
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| Conclusions: Towards a Disaster Preparedness and Response Policy | |
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| List of Contributors | |