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Environmental and hydro-ecological interface in science-policy-practice offers multifarious opportunities addressing not only the hazards but also the underlying causes of disaster vulnerability. This offers systemic prospects of disaster risk reduction. Policy environment for integrated approach comprising efficient governance and planning, along ecological, social and engineering solutions, under a holistic framework is, therefore, called in the recent international frameworks, viz. Sendai Framework of Disaster Risk Reduction, Paris Climate Accord, and Sustainable Development Goals, for 2015-30. The book "Disaster Risk and Impact Management" embodies 17 chapters by authors from developing and developed countries, organized under 3 sections, viz. doverview, case studies and strategic issues, in disaster management practice.