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7/23/2019 Disaster Management Perspectives and Issues
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Disaster management perspectives and issues
The webster’s dictionary defnes as “a grave occurrence having ruinous results.”
The world health organisation (wto) defnes disaster as “ any event concentrated
in time and space in which a society, or a relatively sel !su"ecient sub!division o a society, undergoes severe danger and incurs such losses to its members andphysical appurtenabces, that the social structrure is disrupted and the ulflmento all or some o the essential unctions o the society is prevented.”
Disaster can be classifed into two groups! manmade disasters and naturaldisasters#
(a) $anmade Disater include vehicles related accidents, orest fres, wars andcivil disturbances, ecological disasters due to de orestation, air, wayterand soil pollution, industrial accidents such as gas lea%s and fres, etc.
(b) &atural disasters which include#'ind related suchb as storms, cyclones, tsunami, hurricanes, tidal waves,etc.'ater related such as oods and droughts.
and related*earth+ua%es, avalanches, landslides, volacanic eruptions,etc.
haracteristics o disasters# -enerally , the ollowing are the characteristics o most o the disasters#
. /orderless# certain natural disasters are not bound by border o anation or states. The disasters a0ect humans and other living beingsacross the globe. 1or instance, earth+ua%es, cyclones, oods, droughts,etc., can ta%es place in any country irrespective o social and economicdevelopment. 2t times, a single sisater may a0ect several coun triesat time. The Tsunami o 34 th December 3556 devasted the shores oindia, 7ndonesia, sri lan%a, Thailand and other countries.
3. oss# certain disasters results in death o several people. 1or instance,the -u8arat earth+ua%e in 355 resu9lted in deaths o over 3555people. The :rissa cyclone in ;;; %illed 5555 people. The tsunami
disaster in 3556 too% away live o 3.< la%h people across 6 countries(/angladesh, /urma, 7ndia, 7ndonesia, =enya, $adagascar, $alaysia ,$aldives, the >eychelles, >omalia. >outh 2 rica, Tan?ania and
Thailand). 2part rom loss o himan lives, the disaster results in loss olivestoc%, destruction o houses, o"ces, actories, and other valuablesassest.
<. @nusual Avent# Disaters, by their nature, are distinct rom emergenciesbecause they do not happen all the time. @nusual, but notuneBpected.