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Encyclopedia > Disaster management

Disaster management means a continuous and integrated multi-sectoral, multi-disciplinary process of planning and implementation of measures aimed at prevention and mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery in relation to natural and man-made disasters. Disaster management therefore refers to programs and measures designed to prevent, mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from the effects of disasters. Emergency operations or Emergency preparedness is a set of doctrines to prepare civil society to cope with natural or man-made disasters. ... Emergency operations or Emergency preparedness is a set of doctrines to prepare civil society to cope with natural or man-made disasters. ... The UK organisation for the provision of Disaster Response by Radio amateurs is called RAYNET. More information on RAYNET and the services it provides can be found at http://www. ... Disaster recovery in information technology is the ability of an infrastructure to restart operations after a disaster. ... A natural disaster is a catastrophe that occurs when a hazardous physical event (such as a volcanic eruption, earthquake, landslide, hurricane, or any of the other natural phenomena listed below) precipitates extensive damage to property, a large number of casualties, or both. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...


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Emergency management is the function of organizations concerned with ensuring that their organization can continue to function during and after a crisis or natural disaster. ...

External links

  • Modelling Society’s Capacity to Manage Extraordinary Events From the Swedish Morphological Society

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Disaster management (671 words)
Various disasters like earthquake, landslides, volcanic eruptions, fires, flood and cyclones are natural hazards that kill thousands of people and destroy billions of dollars of habitat and property each year.
These natural disasters are of (i) geophysical origin such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, land slides and (ii) climatic origin such as drought, flood, cyclone, locust, forest fire.
Disaster reduction is a systematic work which involves with different regions, different professions and different scientific fields, and has become an important measure for human, society and nature sustainable development.
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