Question

What are the aims of disaster management?

Answer 1

Instructions:

• Define disaster management
• Aims of disaster management
  • Reduce and avoid any potential losses from hazards
  • Assistance to victims
  • Rapid and effective recovery

Solution:
Disaster management:
The organisation and management of resources and responsibilities and conservation of lives and property during natural or human-made disasters.

Aims of Disaster management:

1. Reduce and avoid any potential losses from hazards
   • By collecting disaster data of several years, hazard prone areas can be mapped.
   • Spreading awareness among people living in hazard-prone regions, taking precautionary and safety measures will discourage hazards to convert into disasters.
2. Assistance to victims
   • Even after taking precautions and spreading awareness, a few disasters are beyond our control and these disasters will cause some damage to the community.
   • In such cases, providing support to the victims on different grounds becomes an essential step.
   • It includes first aid, arranging for temporary shelters, food, drinking water, monetary support, etc.
3. Rapid and effective recovery
   • Recovery plays an important role in reducing the overall effect of any disasters.
   • The faster the people recover, the lesser is the impact of the disaster.
   • Arranging for funds to make people financially independent again, releasing grants, making effective policies around the education and rehabilitation can be a few ways in which a community can come back to normal after a disaster.