Talking about disaster management

In a comprehensive compendium of disasters of various types, three scientists explore the challenges of policymaking when every technology created by man so far has pros and cons over its life cycle

Art and Science of Managing Public Risks

Author: V S Ramamurthy, Dinesh K Srivastava, Shailesh Nayak

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing

Pages: 412

Price: Rs 4,015

The three authors are senior scientists. Shailesh Nayak is a geologist who was also the secretary of the Department of Earth Sciences and has been deeply involved in India’s Antarctic projects. He played a key role in rolling out, in record time, a Tsunami Warning System for the Indian Ocean Region after the 2004 tsunami. V S Ramamurthy, a nuclear scientist, has had a long innings as secretary, Department of Science and Technology and has grappled with the issue of