Floods, cyclones and weather extremes
Whole chapter · 11–17 focused hours
Floods, cyclones and weather extremes
First systematic UPSC preparation after studying the physical causes of hazards in Geography; no professional emergency-response training assumed.
Includes
- Assigned sections and concise recall notes
- Available mapped practice and analysis of mistakes
- One initial closed-book review
Separate time needed
- Later spaced revisions
- Full mock papers
- Professional rescue, medical or engineering certification
- Repeated study of hazard formation already assigned in Geography
- Memorising obsolete agency names or funding allocations from the 2019 plan
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
- Riverine and urban flooding
- Cyclone preparedness
- Drought management
- Heat and cold stress
- Short-duration weather hazards
- Dam emergency planning
- Dam failure mechanisms
Whole chapter reading
- National Disaster Management Plan, 2019 ↗
Sections 7.2–7.3; risk understanding and structural/non-structural measures
- National Disaster Management Plan, 2019 ↗
Sections 7.1.1–7.1.5
- National Disaster Management Plan, 2019 ↗
Sections 7.7.1–7.7.5
- National Disaster Management Plan, 2019 ↗
Sections 7.8 and 7.12; risk and preparedness measures
- National Disaster Management Plan, 2019 ↗
Sections 7.9–7.10; selected monitoring and public-safety measures
- Emergency Action Planning for Dams: CWC overview ↗
PDF pages 1–2: responsibilities, EAP contents and five-step response
- Dam Awareness: Dam Failure Modes ↗
Table 5, Dam Failure Modes, PDF page 8; physical mechanisms only, excluding US legal and agency material