Methods and Techniques of Disaster Management

Contents Preface 1 Natural disaster 2 Manmade disaster 3 Disaster management training 4 Women in disaster management 5 ICT and disaster management 6 Psychological impact of disaster 7 Protecting persons affected by natural disasters 8 Sustainable disaster relief and reconstruction 9 Community based disaster management 10 Disaster education 11 Financing disaster risk management 12 Impact of disaster 13 National vs regional disaster preparedness plan 14 Objectives of disaster management policy 15 Disaster management policy Disaster is defined as a crisis situation causing wide spread damage which far exceeds our ability to recover Thus by definition there cannot be a perfect ideal system that prevents damage because then it would not be a disaster It has to suffocate our ability to recover Only then it can be called as disasterDisasters are not totally discrete events Their possibility of occurrence time place and severity of the strike can be reasonably and in some cases accurately predicted by technological and scientific advances It has been established there is definite pattern in their occurrences and hence we can to some extent reduce the impact of damage itself This demands the study of disaster management in methodical and orderly approach 643 pp.…