Page-5 of GS-III: Environment & Disaster Management
J C Pant committee On Disaster Management
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...Yakohama Strategy for Disaster Reduction, Hyogo Framework of Actions and Total Disaster Risk Management (TDRM) Approach
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....Disaster Management: India’s Vulnerability and Hazard Profile
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...Disaster Response, Recovery & Reconstruction in Disaster Management
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
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 in Disaster Management: Meaning, Examples and Tools
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...Disaster Management: Pre-disaster and Post-disaster Phases
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 and Risk in Disaster Management
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...Understanding Hazard in Disaster Management
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...
