V. K. Malhotra is presently Member Secretary, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. His research interests include Governance and Economic Development, Corporate Governance and Performance of various industries, Intellectual Property Rights and India’s concerns, Foreign Trade and Investments etc. He is on the Board of Indian Council of World Affairs, and a Visitor’s nominee to the Court of Jawahar Lal Nehru University, Delhi. He is also a Member of the Board of many renowned Social Science Research Institutes of the country and is also part of the Executive of many International Research Bodies/Associations.R. Lalitha S. Fernando serves as a Professor in Public Administration, Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura in Sri Lanka. She was awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Academic (internal) Scholarship to pursue Postgraduate Diploma in Development Studies leading to Masters in Development Administration and Management at the University of Manchester, U.K for the period of 1990 to 1992. She has published a number of papers related to public management and governance in both national and international journals.Nivedita P. Haran, Indian Administrative Service (Rtd.), Former Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Kerala who spearheaded   the first Kerala State Disaster Management Authority. She has more than three decades of rich professional experience with the IAS in India and in the state of Kerala where she served in several senior positions of leadership and decision making. She held crucially important positions as a District Planning Officer, as a Head of Revenue Administration, Land Administration, Land Records Management, Renewable Energy in Public Offices, coping Climate Change Strategies, and post-Tsunami Rehabilitation project. She also held the position of Deputy Secretary in the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances, Ministry of Personnel, Government of India, New Delhi. As the Home Secretary, she brought some meaningful innovations such as the digitization of police records, simplification of procedures, bringing transparency and accountability through the use of new cost-effective technological innovations such as Video Conferencing and other ICT applications. She has also been the Director of The Centre for Innovations in Public Systems at Hyderabad. Her most passionate project with the NAPSIPAG (Network of Asia Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance, JNU) was the creation of NYSAF (Network of Young Scholars and Administrators Forum) by bringing academic research closer to  administrators and enable them to work together for the country’s development.

• Chapter 1: Disaster Management and Sustainable Development in Asia and Pacific: Engendering the Strategies of the SDGs.- Chapter 2: Managing Organic Agriculture: Case of Badulla and Ratnapura Districts in Sri Lanka.- Chapter 3: State Machinery, Flood Control and SDGs: A Case Study of  Srinagar Floods (2014).- Chapter 4: Access to Water for all: A Case of Dhaka City in Bangladesh.- Chapter 5: Sustainable Development Goals and Challenges in setting up National Disaster Mitigation Fund.- Chapter 6: Sustainable Development Goals and Disaster Risk Reduction, Targets and Challenges for India.- Chapter 7: Human Trafficking and Disaster Risk Reduction – A Cross Cutting Link in SDGs.- Chapter 8: IPR and Women Farmers: Legal Threats to Sustainable Development.- Chapter 9: Land-use change and vulnerability to disasters: Question mark to SDGs?.- Chapter 10: Patterns and Determinants of Choosing Avenues for Healthcare Utilization in Sri Lanka: Evidence from Household Survey.- Chapter 11: Disaster and Woman at the grassroots through Local Governance.- Chapter 12: Discourse on non-humans within SDGs and Disaster Management.- Chapter 13: Green Environmental Planning in Apparel Companies in Sri Lanks.- Chapter 14: Intra-state Impact of Disasters: A study of J&K.- Chapter 15: Disaster Governance and Community Resilience: The Law and the Role of SDMAs.- Chapter 16: Disasters and Corruption: a Cross country Analysis.- Chapter 17: Community Understanding of Government Responses on Ensuring Human Security in Rural Sri Lanka.- Chapter 18: Epilogue and the way ahead.

V. K. Malhotra is presently Member Secretary, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. His research interests include Governance and Economic Development, Corporate Governance and Performance of various industries, Intellectual Property Rights and India’s concerns, Foreign Trade and Investments etc. He is on the Board of Indian Council of World Affairs, and a Visitor’s nominee to the Court of Jawahar Lal Nehru University, Delhi. He is also a Member of the Board of many renowned Social Science Research Institutes of the country and is also part of the Executive of many International Research Bodies/Associations.R. Lalitha S. Fernando serves as a Professor in Public Administration, Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura in Sri Lanka. She was awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Academic (internal) Scholarship to pursue Postgraduate Diploma in Development Studies leading to Masters in Development Administration and Management at the University of Manchester, U.K for the period of 1990 to 1992. She has published a number of papers related to public management and governance in both national and international journals.Nivedita P. Haran, Indian Administrative Service (Rtd.), Former Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Kerala who spearheaded   the first Kerala State Disaster Management Authority. She has more than three decades of rich professional experience with the IAS in India and in the state of Kerala where she served in several senior positions of leadership and decision making. She held crucially important positions as a District Planning Officer, as a Head of Revenue Administration, Land Administration, Land Records Management, Renewable Energy in Public Offices, coping Climate Change Strategies, and post-Tsunami Rehabilitation project. She also held the position of Deputy Secretary in the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances, Ministry of Personnel, Government of India, New Delhi. As the Home Secretary, she brought some meaningful innovations such as the digitization of police records, simplification of procedures, bringing transparency and accountability through the use of new cost-effective technological innovations such as Video Conferencing and other ICT applications. She has also been the Director of The Centre for Innovations in Public Systems at Hyderabad. Her most passionate project with the NAPSIPAG (Network of Asia Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance, JNU) was the creation of NYSAF (Network of Young Scholars and Administrators Forum) by bringing academic research closer to  administrators and enable them to work together for the country’s development.

• Chapter 1: Disaster Management and Sustainable Development in Asia and Pacific: Engendering the Strategies of the SDGs.- Chapter 2: Managing Organic Agriculture: Case of Badulla and Ratnapura Districts in Sri Lanka.- Chapter 3: State Machinery, Flood Control and SDGs: A Case Study of  Srinagar Floods (2014).- Chapter 4: Access to Water for all: A Case of Dhaka City in Bangladesh.- Chapter 5: Sustainable Development Goals and Challenges in setting up National Disaster Mitigation Fund.- Chapter 6: Sustainable Development Goals and Disaster Risk Reduction, Targets and Challenges for India.- Chapter 7: Human Trafficking and Disaster Risk Reduction – A Cross Cutting Link in SDGs.- Chapter 8: IPR and Women Farmers: Legal Threats to Sustainable Development.- Chapter 9: Land-use change and vulnerability to disasters: Question mark to SDGs?.- Chapter 10: Patterns and Determinants of Choosing Avenues for Healthcare Utilization in Sri Lanka: Evidence from Household Survey.- Chapter 11: Disaster and Woman at the grassroots through Local Governance.- Chapter 12: Discourse on non-humans within SDGs and Disaster Management.- Chapter 13: Green Environmental Planning in Apparel Companies in Sri Lanks.- Chapter 14: Intra-state Impact of Disasters: A study of J&K.- Chapter 15: Disaster Governance and Community Resilience: The Law and the Role of SDMAs.- Chapter 16: Disasters and Corruption: a Cross country Analysis.- Chapter 17: Community Understanding of Government Responses on Ensuring Human Security in Rural Sri Lanka.- Chapter 18: Epilogue and the way ahead.

V. K. Malhotra is presently Member Secretary, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. His research interests include Governance and Economic Development, Corporate Governance and Performance of various industries, Intellectual Property Rights and India’s concerns, Foreign Trade and Investments etc. He is on the Board of Indian Council of World Affairs, and a Visitor’s nominee to the Court of Jawahar Lal Nehru University, Delhi. He is also a Member of the Board of many renowned Social Science Research Institutes of the country and is also part of the Executive of many International Research Bodies/Associations.R. Lalitha S. Fernando serves as a Professor in Public Administration, Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura in Sri Lanka. She was awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Academic (internal) Scholarship to pursue Postgraduate Diploma in Development Studies leading to Masters in Development Administration and Management at the University of Manchester, U.K for the period of 1990 to 1992. She has published a number of papers related to public management and governance in both national and international journals.Nivedita P. Haran, Indian Administrative Service (Rtd.), Former Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Kerala who spearheaded   the first Kerala State Disaster Management Authority. She has more than three decades of rich professional experience with the IAS in India and in the state of Kerala where she served in several senior positions of leadership and decision making. She held crucially important positions as a District Planning Officer, as a Head of Revenue Administration, Land Administration, Land Records Management, Renewable Energy in Public Offices, coping Climate Change Strategies, and post-Tsunami Rehabilitation project. She also held the position of Deputy Secretary in the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances, Ministry of Personnel, Government of India, New Delhi. As the Home Secretary, she brought some meaningful innovations such as the digitization of police records, simplification of procedures, bringing transparency and accountability through the use of new cost-effective technological innovations such as Video Conferencing and other ICT applications. She has also been the Director of The Centre for Innovations in Public Systems at Hyderabad. Her most passionate project with the NAPSIPAG (Network of Asia Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance, JNU) was the creation of NYSAF (Network of Young Scholars and Administrators Forum) by bringing academic research closer to  administrators and enable them to work together for the country’s development.

• Chapter 1: Disaster Management and Sustainable Development in Asia and Pacific: Engendering the Strategies of the SDGs.- Chapter 2: Managing Organic Agriculture: Case of Badulla and Ratnapura Districts in Sri Lanka.- Chapter 3: State Machinery, Flood Control and SDGs: A Case Study of  Srinagar Floods (2014).- Chapter 4: Access to Water for all: A Case of Dhaka City in Bangladesh.- Chapter 5: Sustainable Development Goals and Challenges in setting up National Disaster Mitigation Fund.- Chapter 6: Sustainable Development Goals and Disaster Risk Reduction, Targets and Challenges for India.- Chapter 7: Human Trafficking and Disaster Risk Reduction – A Cross Cutting Link in SDGs.- Chapter 8: IPR and Women Farmers: Legal Threats to Sustainable Development.- Chapter 9: Land-use change and vulnerability to disasters: Question mark to SDGs?.- Chapter 10: Patterns and Determinants of Choosing Avenues for Healthcare Utilization in Sri Lanka: Evidence from Household Survey.- Chapter 11: Disaster and Woman at the grassroots through Local Governance.- Chapter 12: Discourse on non-humans within SDGs and Disaster Management.- Chapter 13: Green Environmental Planning in Apparel Companies in Sri Lanks.- Chapter 14: Intra-state Impact of Disasters: A study of J&K.- Chapter 15: Disaster Governance and Community Resilience: The Law and the Role of SDMAs.- Chapter 16: Disasters and Corruption: a Cross country Analysis.- Chapter 17: Community Understanding of Government Responses on Ensuring Human Security in Rural Sri Lanka.- Chapter 18: Epilogue and the way ahead.