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...
Vulnerability is the extent to which a community, structure, services or geographic area is likely to be damaged or disrupted by the impact of particular hazard. Tangible and...
A Hazard is a threat and future source of danger and has potential to cause harm to man, human activities, properties and environment in future. The earthquakes, volcanic...
Water Footprint is a scientific term which means total amount of freshwater used directly and indirectly by an individual, community or a country over a period of time....
In August 2014, the NDA Government had set up a high-level committee to review the six environment laws in India and recommend specific amendments to bring them in...
Bioterrorism is Intentional & deliberate release of biological agents (bacteria, viruses, or toxins) to cause mass illness or death of people, animals, or plants. It is said that if the...
