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Disaster Management: Response & Recovery

This document discusses disaster management and its key components. Disaster management includes preparedness, response, recovery, and prevention. Preparedness involves making communities capable of coping with disasters through education, warning systems, and practice drills. Response involves minimizing effects during and after a disaster by implementing plans, setting up medical camps, and search and rescue. Recovery supports affected areas through counseling, restoring services, financial support, and rebuilding damaged structures. Prevention aims to eliminate or reduce disasters by prohibiting habitation in risk zones and building disaster resistant structures.

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Disaster Management: Response & Recovery

This document discusses disaster management and its key components. Disaster management includes preparedness, response, recovery, and prevention. Preparedness involves making communities capable of coping with disasters through education, warning systems, and practice drills. Response involves minimizing effects during and after a disaster by implementing plans, setting up medical camps, and search and rescue. Recovery supports affected areas through counseling, restoring services, financial support, and rebuilding damaged structures. Prevention aims to eliminate or reduce disasters by prohibiting habitation in risk zones and building disaster resistant structures.

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Disaster Management

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[Link] Nilesh Akela




What is a DISASTER ?
A disaster is a natural or manmade event
which results in widespread human loss, loss
of livelihood, property and life.

Components of Disaster
Management
1. Preparedness
2. Response
3. Recovery
4. Prevention
Disaster Preparedness
It involves measures to ensure that
communities and services are
capable of coping with the effect of
disaster.
EXAMPLE FOR DISASTER
PREPAREDNESS

1. Community awareness and
education
2. Proper warning system
3. Mutual aid arrangement
4. Mock drill, training practice


Disaster Response
It involves measures taken in
anticipation of, during and
immediately after a disaster
to ensure that the effects are
minimized.
EXAMPLE FOR DISASTER
RESPONSE

1. Implementing the disaster
management plan
2. Setting up medical camps
and mobilizing resources
3. Providing adequate shelter
and sanitary facilities
4. Development of search
and rescue team

Disaster Recovery
It involves measures, which support emergency
affected areas in reconstruction of the physical
infrastructure and restoration of economic and
emotional well being.
EXAMPLE FOR DISASTER
RECOVERY

1. Counseling programme
for those who lost the
near ones

2. Restoring services like
roads, communication link

3. Providing financial
support employment

4. Reconstructing damaged
buildings

Prevention and Mitigation
It involves measures to eliminate or reduce
the incidence of severity of disasters.

EXAMPLE FOR PREVENTION
AND MITIGATION

1. Preventing
habitation in risk
zones
2. Disaster resistant
buildings

PRINCIPLES OF DISASTER
MANAGEMENT

Minimize casualties
Prevent further casualties
Rescue the victims
First aid
Evacuate
Medical care
Reconstruction


THANK YOU

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