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Disaster Management is an interdisciplinary subject that draws upon the vital inputs provided by several conventional disciplines, which range from pure sciences to management. However, there is a general tendency in every UPSC coaching class and publication house to present disaster management as a discipline that is intertwined with Geography and Environment. People miss the fact that disaster management is something that has a much deeper relationship with the domain of management and, most importantly, public policy. The public policy approach to disaster management studies the responses that the state evolves when managing disasters. These state responses are important because they have implications on the development strategy that the state would adopt after the disasters have occurred and also how communities would mould their responses in future such occurrences. The book analyses the comprehensive and dedicated public policy-based disaster responses in India and how these strategies have enabled communities and governments to evolve resilient disaster management practices. The public policy perspective traces its origin from geography, uses geographical inputs, and then analyses the geospatial profile of India to examine the vulnerabilities. The book then places the distinct public policy responses to each disaster and articulates the governmental perspective on disaster management through a thorough and deep contextual analysis of the policy frameworks involved.