Question

Educational programmes on disaster risk reduction are the _____.

• A. Structural measures of mitigation
• B. Non-structural measures of mitigation
• C. Early warning system
• D. None of these

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

Non-structural measures of mitigation

A sudden accident or a natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life and property is called a disaster. It can be natural like earth quakes, tsunami, floods etc and artificial disasters like terrorist attack etc. The impact of disaster depends on the precautions we take to save our lives and our environment. The important aspects of disaster risk reduction are mitigation which is to reduce the effect of disaster, early warning system establishment, disaster preparedness, recovery etc. Educational programmes on disaster risk reduction are the examples of Non-structural measures of mitigation.