Dr. Nirupama Agarwal

Director

Dr. Nirupama Agrawal (formerly NiruNirupama) is with the Disaster & Emergency Management Program since 2005. She has taught in many Canadian universities and has been actively teaching and researching areas that include disaster risk management, physical dynamics of natural hazards, flood management using GIS and remote sensing techniques, and multi-criteria decision making using the fuzzy logic concept. She is a certified (DRI Canada) Associate Business Continuity Professional.Dr. Nirupama received her Dr Eng Water Resources Engineering, from Kyoto University, Japan. She received Master of Hydrology from Indian Institute of Technology and MSc from Indian Institute of Technology, India.

Dr. Nirupama Agrawal (formerly NiruNirupama) is one of the founder faculty members of the Disaster & Emergency Management Program of York University since 2005. Before that, she was a faculty member with the Applied Disaster & Emergency Studies program at Brandon University. She has taught in many Canadian universities and travelled extensively to present her work at conferences and meetings. Dr. Agrawal has supervised and served as an examiner on over 60 graduate students. She has over 50 refereed publications and nearly 20 book chapters to her credit. She has recently authored a book on “Natural Disasters and Risk Management in Canada: An Introduction” published by Springer. She has co-edited a book on the “Indian Ocean tsunami” published by Taylor & Francis in 2006. She is the lead author of “Tsunami Travel Time Atlas for the Atlantic Ocean,” which is first of its kind publication for the Atlantic Ocean. The Tsunami Travel Time Atlas provides charts of tsunami travel times to 118 locations around the Atlantic Ocean, encompassing about 44 countries. Her broad research interests include natural hazards, disaster risk and vulnerability assessment and management, multi-criteria decision making using fuzzy concept, flood damage analysis including socio-economic impacts, GIS and remote sensing techniques, business continuity planning, and natural disasters in Canada.