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“Disaster management
–
a communal approach”
A Paper for
National Seminar
On
“Emerging Facts of Management: Issues and Challenges”
At
Shri Atmanand Jain Institute of Management & Technology
Ambala City (Haryana)
Author
Atul Goyal
Member, All India Management Association
Lecturer, Department of Business Administration
Jind Institute of Engineering & Technology
Email: - atulg.22@gmail.com
Key Words * Introduction * types of disasters * disaster management * Community Participation and Team work * conclusion * references
Introduction
‘Disaster is a crisis situation that far exceeds the capabilities’. - Quarentelly, 1985.
‘Disaster’ is defined as a crisis situation causing wide spread damage which far exceeds our ability to recover. Thus, by definition, there cannot be a perfect ideal system that prevents damage, because then it would not be a disaster. It has to suffocate our ability to recover. Only then it can be called as ‘disaster’.
Disasters are not totally discrete events. Their possibility of occurrence, time, place and severity of the strike can be reasonably and in some cases accurately predicted by technological and scientific advances. It has been established there is a definite pattern in their occurrences and hence we can to some extent reduce the impact of damage though we cannot reduce the extent of damage itself. This demands the study of disaster management in methodical and orderly approach.
Millions of people breathe their last just because of unawareness about disasters, their mitigations and their cautions when a disaster strikes their zone. Have they taken several steps of safety, they would have been breathing. A disaster whether natural or human-induced, is an event which results in widespread
–
a communal approach”
A Paper for
National Seminar
On
“Emerging Facts of Management: Issues and Challenges”
At
Shri Atmanand Jain Institute of Management & Technology
Ambala City (Haryana)
Author
Atul Goyal
Member, All India Management Association
Lecturer, Department of Business Administration
Jind Institute of Engineering & Technology
Email: - atulg.22@gmail.com
Key Words * Introduction * types of disasters * disaster management * Community Participation and Team work * conclusion * references
Introduction
‘Disaster is a crisis situation that far exceeds the capabilities’. - Quarentelly, 1985.
‘Disaster’ is defined as a crisis situation causing wide spread damage which far exceeds our ability to recover. Thus, by definition, there cannot be a perfect ideal system that prevents damage, because then it would not be a disaster. It has to suffocate our ability to recover. Only then it can be called as ‘disaster’.
Disasters are not totally discrete events. Their possibility of occurrence, time, place and severity of the strike can be reasonably and in some cases accurately predicted by technological and scientific advances. It has been established there is a definite pattern in their occurrences and hence we can to some extent reduce the impact of damage though we cannot reduce the extent of damage itself. This demands the study of disaster management in methodical and orderly approach.
Millions of people breathe their last just because of unawareness about disasters, their mitigations and their cautions when a disaster strikes their zone. Have they taken several steps of safety, they would have been breathing. A disaster whether natural or human-induced, is an event which results in widespread
References: 1. Yojana (June 2009), a monthly Magazine of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. 2. National Disaster Management Agency Report. 3. Environmental health in emergencies and disasters: A practical guide. WHO, 2002. 4. Governance in Disaster Management & Response by Rajesh Kishore, convener, Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority, Gandhinagar 5. http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/dmf/risk_managemnt.htm 6. http://www.cred.be/centre/publi/155e