Disaster management cycle
Also called: Stages of disaster management · Topic: Natural Hazards and Disaster Management in India · NCERT: Class 11, Ch 6 "Natural Hazards and Disasters: Causes, Consequences and Management"
Meaning
The disaster management cycle shows how we deal with disasters in three stages. Pre-disaster: collect data, make vulnerability maps (maps of who and what is most at risk), raise awareness, plan and prepare. During disaster: rescue people, move them to safety, and provide shelters, food, water and medical aid. Post-disaster: rehabilitation (helping people resettle), recovery, and capacity building so the next disaster does less harm. It is called a cycle because lessons from one disaster go into preparing for the next.
Example
In 1999 the Odisha super cyclone killed about 10,000 people. Before Cyclone Phailin hit Odisha in 2013, good pre-disaster warnings allowed about a million people to be evacuated, and few died.
Don't confuse with
- Disaster mitigation: mitigation is only one part of the pre-disaster stage. It means steps that reduce a disaster's impact. The cycle covers everything before, during and after.
Related concepts
- Disaster mitigation
- Disaster Management Act 2005
- National Disaster Management Authority
- National Disaster Response Force
- National Institute of Disaster Management
- National and State Disaster Response Funds
- Notified disasters
- Common Alerting Protocol