Key Terms and Concepts Used in Disaster Management: Puleh Steven Sean Dep't of Health Sciences
Key Terms and Concepts Used in Disaster Management: Puleh Steven Sean Dep't of Health Sciences
Key Terms and Concepts Used in Disaster Management: Puleh Steven Sean Dep't of Health Sciences
Disaster management
& EMERGENCIES
DEFINITIONS
DISASTER :
A disaster is an occurrence disrupting the
normal conditions of existence and causing a
level of suffering that exceeds the capacity of
adjustment of the affected community.
DISASTER
Response
Preparedness
Rehabilitation
Prevention
Reconstruction
HEAT WAVE
SUDDEN
OCCURRENCE
FREEZE
MONOCAUSAL
EARTHQUAKE
BY NATURAL
CAUSES VOLCANIC ERUPTION
INSUFFICIENT
CAPACITY OF
RESPONSE
LANDSLIDE
DROUGHT
PROGRESSIVE
OCCURRENCE FLOOD
MULTICAUSAL
EPIDEMIC
PEST
DISASTER
FIRE
EXPLOSION
SUDDEN
OCCURRENCE COLLISION
MONOCAUSAL
SHIPWRECK
Trigger event
Poverty Lack of Fragile physical
Limited access to - local institutions environment
- power structures - education - dangerous locations
Earthquake
- resources - training - dangerous buildings, High winds, storm
Ideologies - appropriate skills etc. Floods
Landslide
Economic systems - local investments Vulnerability
Age - local markets Fragile local economy Volcanic eruption
Sex - services - low levels of income + Hazard Drought
Illness and disabilities - press freedom - livelihoods at risk War, civil strife
=DISASTER
Economic crisis
Macro-forces Public actions
Technological accident
- population expansion
- urbanization
- environment de gradation
VULNERABILITY
the predisposition to suffer damage due to
external events
SUSCEPTIBILITY exposure to danger
RESILIENCE
• Poverty,
• population growth
• and urbanization force
• living in unsafe areas
Site after pressures from population growth and urbanization
Disaster Management and
Emergency Management
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Preparedness Response/Relief
Rehabilitation
Mitigation/
Prevention
Reconstruction
Pre-disaster: risk reduction
Post-disaster: recovery
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
DEVELOPMENT RELIEF
AIMS OF DISASTER
MANAGEMENT
reducing VULNERABILITY
“Secondary” Mitigation:
( Preparedness )
PREPAREDNESS
effective relief
RESPONSE