What is Disaster Management?
                     What is Disaster Management?
Definition:
• Disaster Management is an essential preparation and 
strategy that is controlled and utilized to safeguard 
basic frameworks (otherwise called "critical assets") 
from extreme harm when regular or human-made 
disasters and horrendous even happen. 
• In the United States, Executive Order 13407 is laid out 
as a strategy for the United States to have a successful, 
dependable, incorporated, adaptable, and far-reaching 
framework to alarm and caution the overall population, 
which is designated "Coordinated Public Alert and 
Warning System
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Types:
• Natural disasters: These disasters include floods, hurricanes, 
earthquakes and volcano eruptions that can have immediate 
impacts on human health,
• Environmental emergencies: These emergencies include 
technological or industrial accidents, usually involving hazardous 
material, and occur where these materials are produced, used or 
transported.
• Complex emergencies: These emergencies involve a break-down of 
authority, looting and attacks on strategic installations. 
• Pandemic emergencies: These emergencies involve a sudden onset 
of a contagious disease that affects health but also disrupts 
services and businesses, bringing economic and social costs.
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Activities:
Activities during a disaster should include:
• Save lives and reduce human suffering
• Protect and restore livelihoods
• Reduce the risks faced by communities affected by 
disaster and conflict.
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Activity: Early Warning:
Disaster Management teams screen signs and marks of both 
normal and man-conveyed intimidations. 
This data cautions of arising occasions, like tropical storms, 
flooding, the forerunners of starvation, and stirrings of 
contention, so we can expect and lessen the effect of a 
humanitarian emergency.
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Disaster Risk Reduction:
• Reduce vulnerabilities – including physical, social, 
economic and environmental factors that increase 
susceptibility.
• Lessen the impacts of natural and man-made 
conditions that have the potential to adversely impact 
the lives and livelihoods of communities.
• Develop and enhance the capacity of individuals, 
communities and institutions to reduce risk and build 
up resilience. The better the capacity the more 
resilient to risk. 
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Preparedness:
Items include:
• Tarpaulins
• Household kits
• Water carriers
• Reliable access to emergency food supplies
• Water purification tablets
• Shelter materials
• Cooking utensils
• Blankets
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Resilience and Prevention:
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 
and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) 
have flexibility and avoidance endeavors, drives, and 
projects as a component of Emergency Management.
Flexibility characterizes the objective of alleviation, 
readiness, reaction, and recuperation; which is the ability 
to recuperate from disaster or adversity. 
Anticipation is thoroughly staying away from risk or unsafe 
occasions.
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International Organizations:
The International Association of Emergency Managers 
(IAEM) is the primary professional and academic 
organization of Emergency and Disaster Professionals 
worldwide.  The main goals of this organization are to 
protect human lives, assets, and the environment during 
disasters. 
In addition, the organization's principles are to providing 
information, networking, education, professional 
opportunities, and to advance the emergency 
management profession (IAEM, 2011).
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Response and Recovery:
During and immediately after an emergency, disaster 
management focuses on delivering help and interventions 
that can save lives, safeguard health, and protect 
buildings, animals, and community property. 
Following an initial response, efforts shift toward 
supporting communities as they rebuild emotionally, 
economically, and physically.
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Disaster Relief:
Examples of disaster relief are:
Setting up temporary shelters that provide a safe place to 
sleep, food, and emotional support from trained personnel
Delivering meals and water
Distributing emergency supplies and necessities, such as 
toiletries for hygiene and tarps, shovels, trash bags for 
cleanup efforts
Providing emergency health services, such as first aid for 
injuries and prescription medication replacements
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Rebuilding
Emergency management helps communities rebuild their 
lives after trauma. This involves longer-term efforts to 
restore:
• Housing
• Economies
• Infrastructure systems
• Individual and community health
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