This book brings to the reader a comprehensive coverage of the issue of disaster management. Compiling an erudite exploration of disaster management, the book starts with an enunciation of the types of disasters, immediate and the risk factors. Also, it gives a compendious amount of information on emergency aid, and long-term plans to benefit victims chapters have also been included to help disaster management professional so gauge potential risk, assess viability, evaluate probabiity and risks and assess damage. Considering the relavance of disaster management today, this book with its all encompassing content should hopefully be highly enightening to the reader.