We can not leave everything to God: children and crowd management in schools

Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 107, March 2014:

This issue explores the important theme of crowd management which is an extremely important concept for a country like India that routinely witnesses stampedes. This issue provides vital information on Crowd management policies, practices and procedures repleted with views of experts from the field.

The content includes: (i) We Can Not Leave Everything to God; (ii) Assam Jatiya Vidyalaya: A Case of Crowd Management at Schools; (iii) Need for Stampede Management at School Level; (iv) Major Stampedes of India (v) Proactive Approach to Disaster Response In India: Adoption of Incident Response System; (vi) Crowd Management at Heritage Sites (vii) Role of Switzerland in Making World Safer from Disasters; (viii) School Safety Assessment of Cyclone Thane - Affected Schools; (ix) The EU's Disaster Risk Reduction Work in India; (x) Children in the Uttarakhand Disaster; (xi) School Safety and Crowd Management.