University Libraries And Community Preparedness For Natural Disasters: A Participatory Based Action Plan
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2018-11
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INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Abstract
In this study, authors aimed to investigate that how far university libraries in India can contribute
for building disaster preparedness. Primarily, the authors have identified three major components of
disaster preparedness which are social, economic and environmental capital, and further tried to
explore how these capitals can be achieved in pre, during and post disaster situation through the
services of university libraries in India. Based on the theoretical conceptualization the study forwarded
a model named as participatory approach based thematic model for the university library,
encouraging more involvements, engagements and active participation from the users and local
community. Further, the authors have made critical analysis and logical understanding to propose
16 action plan son the basis of the model that can be implemented through the services of university
library in three different disaster situations, facilitating adaptive governance in the community for
achieving disaster preparedness.
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11th Convention PLANNER 2018, Tripura University, Agartala, Tripura, November 15-17, 2018
Keywords
Disaster Preparedness, University Libraries-India, Participatory Approach, Action Plans