Learn What Is Disaster Management

Disaster management can be defined as organizing and managing resources and responsibilities to deal with the humanitarian aspects of emergencies through preparing, responding and recovering to ensure minimum loss through different multi-casualty incidents.

There can be different types of disasters and every country faces some kind of it at some time. However, the vulnerability of the disasters can vary. Some of the disasters are:

• Natural disasters- includes floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcano, etc.
• Environmental disasters- any sort of technical or industrial accidents fall in this category. Most of the time, it includes some hazardous materials.
• Complex emergencies- include breakdown of some higher authorities, looting, conflicting situations and war.
• Pandemic disasters-sudden spread of contagious disease affecting health which affects social as well as economic costs.

Any sort of disaster often causes interruption in any essential services which include electricity, water, sewage, health care, transportation, communications, etc. Often such interruptions cause loss of life and wealth and leaves a long lasting negative impact. Therefore, it becomes important to manage such multi casualty incident with proper planning and management.

For any kind of disaster management, there are organizations and authorities at local, regional, national and international levels. They all have a disaster management plan which mainly covers services, prevention, preparedness, relief and recovery.