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Call For Papers National Seminar On "Disaster Management and Law: Issues and Challenges"
Call For Papers National Seminar On "Disaster Management and Law: Issues and Challenges"
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Disaster Management and Law:
Issues and challenges
The disasters either Natural or Man-made result in
enormous loss of life and property, extreme human suffering,
irreparable devastation, displacement of people and impact on
the environment. Asia is more susceptible to disasters and
experienced nearly 60% of the worlds natural disasters. India is
more prone to disasters. India, having its peculiar climatic
conditions, natural geographical position, topographic
characteristics and geological setting is worst affected country in
the Asian region as well as in the world. According to the
statistics of National Disaster Management Division,
Government of India, about 85% of the total geographical area
in India is vulnerable to one or more disasters and about 57% is
in high seismic zone and 25 million people are affected by
disasters every year.
The Latur (Osmanabad, Maharashrra State)
earthquake in September 1993, Gujarat in January 2001, the
deadliest Tsunami in Southern Asia on 26th December 2004 and
the recent earthquake cum atomic disaster in Japan are the best
examples for natural disasters in which thousands people died
and lakhs of people are injured and displaced. The Chernobyl
Nuclear disaster in 1986 and the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984 are
the major examples for Man-made disasters, where in thousands
of innocent people died. Apart from these two categories of
disasters, there is a third kind of disaster which may be more
dangerous with respect to natural environment and human
security. In the name of globalization, liberalization and
developmental activities, the natural environment is being
destroyed by deforestation to accelerate planning of
developmental projects, depletion of ozonelayer in the
atmosphere due to the reckless activities of Industrialists and
also by the issue of global earning. Therefore along with the
natural and man-made disasters, the third category disasters ie,
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Disaster Management and Law:
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