The Indian subcontinent is among the globe's most calamity prone regions because of its colossal population and unique geophysical characteristics. Natural as well as anthropogenic hazards such as landslides, earthquakes, floods, cyclones, droughts, wildlife fires and industrial disasters occur in different parts of the country in varying intensities. Almost 85% of India’s area is exposed to one or multiple of these hazards. The condition in which people live, affect how much people are affected by the disaster. In order to protect the environment and ourselves from the harmful effects of a disaster, we have to prepare ourselves in advance to face them.
Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is a methodical approach towards recognizing, evaluating
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In a resilient community, strong community institutions (CI) that have the ability to engage with local governments, NGOs and other key actors exist. Also, community institutions represent diverse members of community and their priorities, which is very important in a diverse country like India. If we talk about awareness, knowledge and education, there should be adequate awareness and knowledge about DRR at a local level. For this vulnerability reduction learning and practice must be built on traditional knowledge systems. CIs ought to know of emerging risks, options for vulnerability reduction, developing their skills and capacity and should engage in invulnerable …show more content…
While it is cliché to say that young people are the future, it is actually true that our decisions affect humankind’s future, so we must be aware about the hazards threatening our existence and should be able to make sagacious decisions for the benefit of the planet. To create this awareness, disaster management programs should be organized, emergency exit plans should be prepared, regular mock drills ought to be planned and necessary equipment should be installed to reduce the risk of disasters in schools. Local schools prioritise DRR education as children can act as change influencing agents in the society.This will not only help the youth to save their lives, but to save other lives as well. Disaster risk reduction is therefore important to generate sustainable development, and should be executed on all
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Explain how the concept of whole community is used at the local level of government to mitigate against risk.
Due to the change in climate, natural disasters take place taking away lives of the people. For example, The Nepal earthquake which took place on 25th April, 2015 which killed over 8000 people and injured more than 21000 people.
Emergency management is a career about managing risk that are both technological and naturally occurring. Though these two terms are synonymous with each other in-terms of modern conceptualization of disasters; this has not always been the case. In the developmental history of emergency management these two sources of disaster; were often seen as two completely independent sources of danger, and as a result the emergency management community encountered steep and costly learning curve in managing the hazards associated with these sources risk.
Pre impact conditions mixed with event specific conditions combined with one another during a disaster produce physical and social impacts to a community. The impact from each disaster can be reduced by interventions through emergency management. By assessing these pre impact conditions, an emergency manager can produce social risks and vulnerabilities within their community. Integrating these social risks and vulnerabilities emergency mangers can use the four most important phases in emergency management: preparedness, planning, response, and recovery to benefit their community as a whole.
A systemic crisis is a crisis in which the breadth of impact reaches many individuals within the system; for example, schools, businesses, entire communities, regions, or it may be worldwide. The individuals involved in a systemic crisis can become overwhelmed with the enormity of the situation and need physical and/or psychological assistance to regain control. Systemic crisis interventions require a combination of strategies working cooperatively together across multiple agencies to effectively address all potential needs of the victims. However, not all systemic crises are the same and require interventions that are specific to the systemic crisis category. The following paragraphs will give a brief description of a natural disaster
No communities or states are immune from disasters. A natural or man-made disaster can happen at any time and the impact can be devastating and overwhelming. It can affect citizen’s livelihoods and environment in a matter of second. The government has implemented various types of hazard reduction programs over the past several years to reduce or minimize the loss of life, injuries and property losses caused by the destruction of these disasters.
As we all know, the economic development, the proportion of pollution, ecological imbalance, war, and terrorism is rising up, so disaster can happen wherever, by people or nature. These disasters can wreck millions of lives. In order to save the lives of these people the Red Cross is taking action. This can be seen in many ways, like International Services. This means that the Red Cross provides assistance to those in need globally. The American Red Cross will work together with local Red Cross chapters to help and give the best support to as many people as they can. Also the Red Cross, “[invests] in disaster preparedness [which] makes communities less vulnerable.” For example, they help prevent measles by vaccinating children against the virus. The Red Cross also educates people on matters of international humanitarian law. They also “are reconnecting families separated by international war and disaster.” This shows the humanitarian spirit and it is a good way to heal the souls of those affected by the
Even though humans are building constructions to prevent natural disasters, Mother Nature overpowers them by provoking natural disasters. Some of which is when a tornado hit Queens, New York in 2012; the tornado exceeded the sea shore of the beach, hit benches, and carried and threw away garbage cans (Williams, 2012). Two years before, an earthquake struck Youngstown, and this natural disaster was caused by Youngstown's people (Choi, 2013).In 2008, a devastating flood wet most of New Orleans due to the built up dams. The Hirakud dam was also built to prevent dams and improve irrigation in Orissa, India, but a flood destroyed the town instead; Orissa is small town ad whatever catastrophes happen to it endangers the whole demographic. This incident led to sixty-eight deaths and four and an half million people undergoing hunger hardships, and 2,999km road was ruined too. (Panda, 2008) Therefore, people should realize defying Mother Nature and constructions preventing natural disasters might actually worsen their society's current situation.
Natural Disasters can occur anywhere at anytime. Some are more predictable than others, but they all bring hardship to everyone’s life. Examples of natural disasters are Earthquakes (Haiti 2010), Tornadoes, Tsunami, Hurricanes, Wild Fires, Winter Storms, Heat waves, Mudslides and Floods. Regardless of what kind of disaster occurs, bottom line, everyone needs to be prepared mentally and physically to deal with the aftermath. Education is the first step to prepare you to deal with any major disaster. Three of the major disasters that can potentially disrupt normal day to day operations in our lives, are Hurricanes, Tsunamis and Tornadoes.
Environmental hazards are an unavoidable aspect of contemporary life. Whether they peturb a region, nation or continent, their effects are nonetheless devastating to those involved. Environmental hazards lie at “the interface between the natural events system and the human use system.” (Burton et al, 1978:25), interacting with global change and sustainable development. Disrupting social, economic and political organisations, these hazards are phenomena that damage and strain human infrastructures. Differentiating between ‘natural’ (geologic, atmospheric, hydrologic, epidemic and biologic) and ‘technological’ (industrial, infrastructural and engineering) hazards, Smith (2013) provides a framework through which hazards can be categorised, emphasising their multifarious nature. This essay will argue that humanity must learn to live with environmental hazards, developing methods of prediction and mitigation in order to reduce their effects. Focussing on three key case studies, this essay will analyse Myanmar’s Cyclone Nargis, Japan’s Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, and India’s Gujarat Hepatitis Epidemic of 2009. These diverse examples demonstrate the extent to which the impacts of hazards vary across different spatial scales, and manifest themselves at differing levels of economic and political development.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss potential disasters that could affect a community and cause mass casualties. Further discussion will include who is responsible for the management preparedness, what barriers must be considered and finally this paper will discuss the health care facilities role in emergency supplies and care of the patient in a disaster situation. The Community Communities throughout the country and the world are susceptible to disasters. The environment and location of a community often predisposes a greater susceptibility to the type of disaster. For example, Central Pennsylvania would not be susceptible to an avalanche, however, communities in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado would have increased vulnerability.
In the end I would like to say that disasters are inevitable so the authorities should be prepare beforehand and when the disaster actually occurs the response should be fast and effective. There after the recovery from the loss occurred should be well planned and future planning should be done so that much better protection steps can prevent larger damage.
The increase in unpredictable natural disasters events for a decade has led to put the disaster preparedness as a central issue in disaster management. Disaster preparedness reduces the risk of loss lives and injuries and increases a capacity for coping when hazard occurs. Considering the value of the preparatory behavior, governments, local, national and international institutions and non-government organizations made some efforts in promoting disaster preparedness. However, although a number of resources have been expended in an effort to promote behavioural preparedness, a common finding in research on natural disaster is that people fail to take preparation for such disaster events (Paton, 2005; Shaw 2004; Spittal, et.al, 2005; Tierney, 1993; Kenny, 2009; Kapucu, 2008; Coppola and Maloney, 2009). For example, the fact that nearly 91% of Americans live in a moderate to high risk of natural disasters, only 16% take a preparation for natural disaster (Ripley, 2006).
Of the four phases of emergency management, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery, perhaps the place that individuals can make the biggest difference in their own state of resiliency and survival of a disaster is in the preparedness phase. Being prepared before a disaster strikes makes sense yet many people fail to take even simple, precautionary steps to reduce the consequences of destruction and mayhem produced by natural events such as earthquakes, volcanos and tornados (see Paton et al, 2001, Mileti and Peek, 2002; Tierney, 1993, Tierney et al, 2001).