Book excerpt: Many books were written in the history, economy, geography, polity, agriclure, horticulture, touism and other field of Himachal Pradesh. But no book was written on disasters in Himachal Pradesh. So the author is writen a book on Disasters in Himachal Pradesh first time. Disasters whether natural or man-made an causing a great loss to all-human beings, animals plants and resources- buildings infrastructures and above all cause psychological problems. Disates are incressing with the more to material civilization, urbanization, industrialization and greed. With this new cult, even natural disasters are occurring because of the distrurbances in natural equilibrium caused by the grred and lost of human being to explot natural resources to get rich quickly. This book on Disasters in Himachal Pradesh deals with natural and man-made disasters which are occouring in the past years of Himachal Pradesh. These include earthquake, floods, flashfloods, cloud buest, landslides, Avalanches , drought, fire, forest fire and Accidents. Contents include Introduction, Disaters, Disastres,, Prevention,, Mitigation , Risk Reduction, Policy Framework , Organization Disaster Management, Conclusions and Suggestions. This book will be helpful to Administration, NGOs, CBOs, VOs, arm force, Police, Media and other concerned departments with disaster management for making effectively disaster action plan, disaster policy , framework , good warning system, proper communication system, proper coordination system, proper information system, rescue operation, education and awareness related to disaster management. In addition, this book will prove most useful and informative to teachers, researchers, professional, practioners and students from the different courses of Disaster Maagement, science, commerce and Social Sciences.