Isbn: 9788182744387 - a manual on disaster management (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. xviii + 294 Illus.

Contents Preface 1 Introduction to Disaster Management 2 Concepts and Terms in Disaster management 3 Introduction to disaster preparedness 4 Prerequisites for preparedness planning 5 General Preparedness Plan 6 Introduction to Natural disaster response 7 Disaster Response Planning 8 Disaster Response roles and responsibilities 9 The Tools and methods of disaster management 10 Technologies of disaster management 11 Initial Emergency Operations 12 What is effective disaster communication 13 Methodology for disaster communication 14 How does media look at a disaster 15 Benefits of planning for good disaster communication 16 Disaster communication cases 17 Relief work after a disaster 18 Managing disaster aftermath 19 Epidemiologic factors that determine the potential of communicable disease transmission 20 Post-disaster potential of communicable disease epidemics 21 Disaster response history in India IndexDisaster management is the discipline of dealing with and avoiding or reducing the aftermath of an emergency situation It is a discipline that involves disaster response such as emergency evacuation quarantine mass decontamination etc and also supporting and rebuilding society after natural or human-made disasters have occurred In general any disaster management is the continuous process by which all individuals groups and communities manage hazards in an effort to avoid or ameliorate the impact of disasters resulting from the hazards Actions taken depend in part on perceptions of risk of those exposedEffective disaster management relies on thorough integration of emergency plans at all levels of government and non-government involvement Activities at each level individual group community affect the other levels It is common to place the responsibility for governmental emergency management with the institutions for civil defense or within the conventional structure of the disaster servicesThe nature of management depends on local economic and social conditions experts have noted that the cycle of disaster management must include long-term work on infrastructure public awareness and even human justice issues The process of disaster management involves for phases namely mitigation preparedness response and recoveryThis manual is an assimilation of a lot of public domain material in a structured format so as to be useful to students as well as practitioners of the science of disaster management Jacket 294 pp.…