what is disaster management? how is it helpful?

Answer 1

Emergency management (or disaster management) is the discipline dealing with and avoiding risks.[1] It is a discipline that involves preparing, supporting, and rebuilding society when natural or human-made disasters occur.

The nature of emergency management is highly dependent on economic and social conditions local to the emergency, or disaster. This is true to the extent that some disaster relief experts such as Fred Cuny have noted that in a sense the only real disasters are economic. [2] For example, in developing nations often funding is not available for public works projects, populations are not sufficiently literate for learning about prevention methods, and many are so poor that they are willing to take personal/familial risks even over the warnings and laws of their society in order to survive or moderately increase comfort levels. A sad example is that of the Union Carbide Bhopal disaster, which also illustrates the nature of most disasters as being multi-level failures, often with human issues such as greed in the mix, even though the precipitating event is technical or natural (e.g. equipment failure, hurricane, etc.).

Experts such as Cuny have long noted that in developing nations especially, the cycle of emergency management must include long-term work on infrastructure, public awareness, and even human justice issues. Failure to recognize these needs can result in "recovery" that does little more than "**** the gun again" for the next precipitating event.

In general globally, any Emergency management is the continuous process by which all individuals, groups, and communities manage hazards in an effort to avoid or ameliorate the impact of disasters resulting from the hazards. Actions taken depend in part on perceptions of risk of those exposed.[3] Effective emergency management relies on thorough integration of emergency plans at all levels of government and non-government involvement. Activities at each level (individual, group, community) affect the other levels. It is common to place the responsibility for governmental emergency management with the institutions for civil defense or within the conventional structure of the emergency services. In the private sector, emergency management is commonly referred to as business continuity management.

Answer 2

Disaster Management is a special subject by itself. It is more relevent in India as Indians face too many disasters, both natural and man made disasters. Unfortunately It is not receiving the attention it deserves. Recent example of a disaster is "the fire in he Samjouta express in Panipat".
We are very poor in Management of anything. We have a dirty habit of accepting things with 'Chaltahai' attitude. If the security Management were to be better in Delhi Railway Station, this accident would not have happenned. Still we dont learn. This kind of accidents are periodically regular.

Answer 3

Disaster Management or DM in short, is an emerging discipline in India. This is because India is one of the world's most disaster prone areas. Except for volcanoes all kinds of disaster can occur here. However, in developed countries like Japan or the US this is quite advanced. DM covers all the pre and post-disaster efforts at managing the consequences of a disaster - natural or man-made. It includes emergency response like rescue and relief (just after a disaster has struck), rehabilitation (when affected people require to rebuild their homes, jobs and lives) and prevention or mitigation (for being prepared in advance for a possible threath so that the impacts can be minimized). DM includes techniques and methods at emergency response including managing resources, viz. managing man-power, equipments, materials etc. during calamities and after; special skills viz. search and rescue from collapsed buildings; and planning for being better prepared for disaster viz. prepaing and undertaking drills for a community based disaster preparedness plan as well as other related services (providing legal help etc. ).Also the principles of DM can be applied elsewhere. For example the principles of Incident Command System or ICS (a management system used to organize emergency response and offer a scalable response to incidents of any magnitude) can be used for controlling large gatherings like that in the Ardh Kumbh or for mob-control. There are now various learning institutions that offer courses on DM. For example, Indira Gandhi Open University offers a diploma course on DM.

Answer 4

As the name states DM is a branch of Science dealing with the steps , procedures, and precautions to manage a foreseen/ expected disaster.
It is helpful in saving many lives as a disaster can cause huge losses of life and property.

DM is generally done for Floods, Tornados, Volcanic Activity, storms, spreading diseases like birdflue, plague, etc.

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