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Introduction: Earthquakes in India: Response, Recovery and Impact Mitigation Shirish Patel 2. Disasters in India: Policy Overview of Vulnerability, Risks and Human Impacts Debarati Guha-Sapir and Philippe Hoyois 3. Uttarkashi Earthquake: Management of Relief & Rehabilitation Rajeev Kapoor 4. Earthquake Reconstruction in Maharashtra, India: Impact on Assets, Income, and Equity Krishna S. Vatsa 5. A Decade of Lessons from Marathwada: Earthquake Vulnerability, Politics and Participatory Housing Alex Salazar and Rohit Jigyasu 6. Women Take the Lead: Turning a Crisis into an Opportunity for Development Prema Gopalan 7. Compounding Disasters: First the Natural, then the Man-made: Failed Interventions We Can Learn From Sandeep Virmani 8. Planning the Reconstruction of Bhuj B.R. Balachandran 9. Participative Rehabilitation: A Dilemma M.N. Joglekar 10. Lessons from the Gujarat Experience: For Disaster Mitigation and Management V. Thiruppugazh and Sudhir Kumar 11. Disaster Management in India: Policy Intervention and Recent Initiatives Anil K Sinha, Dr Satendra and Shikha Srivastava 12. Seismic Retrofitting of Existing Non-engineered Load-bearing Structures Rajendra Desai 13. Medical Management of Earthquake Disasters Brig K.J. Singh 14. Trauma after Earthquakes: Mitigating the Psychosocial and Mental Effects R. Srinivasa Murthy 15. Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Management: Developing Risk Models for the Insurance Industry Haresh C. Shah and Weimin Dong Afterword Aromar Revi

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