The importance of timely disaster warning in mitigating negative impacts can never be underestimated. Although damage to property cannot be avoided, some of the developed countries have been...
According to the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR), there are several key parties that play major roles in the disaster management process. These include communities,...
The Disaster Management Act, 2005 has been enacted as the central Act to deal with the management of disasters. This act envisaged a three tier Disaster Management structure...
United Nations had declared 1990s as Decade of Natural Disaster Reduction. It called upon nations to formulate national disaster-mitigation programmes, as well as economic, land use and insurance...
The traditional approach to the disaster management was mainly based on the premise that disasters are sudden occurrences and man has no role to play in its process....
Indian sub-continent has unique geo-climatic and socio-political conditions that make it vulnerable to both the natural as well as manmade disasters. Around 6% of the population of India...
The objective of disaster response is to provide immediate assistance to maintain life, improve health, and to support the morale of the victim population. Such assistance may range...
Disaster preparedness is defined as a continuous and integrated process involving a wide range of activities and multi-sectoral resources. Preparedness pays when done well. In order that disaster...
Mitigation refers to all actions taken before a disaster to reduce its impacts. Mitigation activities fall broadly into two categories viz. Structural Mitigation and Non-structural mitigation. Structural mitigation...
Disasters are serious disruptions of functioning of a community causing widespread human, material, or environmental losses which exceed the ability of the affected community to cope using its...
