Disaster Management

The foremost aim of our effort is to empower the students, the younger generation on the preventive aspects, the types of services to be rendered in a disaster situation. We do not boast of originality with regard to content of the book but we collected the matter from various sources. We are hopeful and fully confident that this book, in its present form, will be very helpful to the students. Disaster risk management is a comparatively new area of social concern and practice. However, it is a very relevant concern for development cooperation given that natural disasters have devastated an increasing number of regions, destroyed investments and set back progress in development. Natural disasters have been visiting every part of the globe at one time or the other. The world is becoming increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters. From earthquakes to floods and famines, mankind is even more threatened by the forces of nature. Nearly three million people worldwide may have been killed in past 20 years due to natural disasters such as landslides, earthquakes, floods, snow avalanches, cyclones etc. Often, countries victim to the large-scale impacts of natural disasters are barely able to respond, and recovering can take years or decades.