Globalization involves the integration of economic, political, and cultural aspects of many countries and large enterprises around the world. Disaster studies examines how sudden events like natural hazards or conflicts impact communities by disrupting life and infrastructure, analyzing risks and vulnerabilities. The field has shifted from seeing disasters as acts of God to focusing on prevention and mitigation of impacts. While globalization allows faster sharing of ideas and technology for disaster response, it has also increased climate change and land degradation, raising disaster rates and vulnerabilities. International cooperation on disaster risk reduction through frameworks like the Hyogo Protocol are needed to effectively address global disasters.

1. GLOBALIZATION
&
DISASTER STUDIES
Presentation by: Amit Singh Manhas
MA(Disaster Management) sem1
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2. GLOBALIZATION
 Globalization is comprised of an array (series of thing)
mutually constituted, economic, social and ecological
flows of energy, information, material and people
interacting densely at various points and less densely at
others around the globe.
 Globalization involves many countries and majority of
huge enterprises.

3. CONTINUED…..
 Globalization is a process of economic, political and
cultural integration and unification.
 Globalization involves many countries and majority of
huge enterprises.

4. DISASTER STUDIES
 It address the social and behavioral aspects of sudden
onset of collective stress situations typically referred to as
mass emergencies or disasters
 These situation can be created by natural hazards,
technological accidents, violent intergroup conflicts,
shortages of natural resources and other major hazards to
life, health, property, well being, and everyday routines.
 All aspects of the life history of such events, both actual
and threatened, are examined in terms of risk conduct
hazard and vulnerability analysis as well as plan and
implement mitigation, preparedness, response, and
recovery actions.

5. PARADIGM SHIFT IN
DISASTER STUDIES
 In ancient times, disasters were seen as wrath of god.
 Around 100 years ago, the focus was shifted to find out
the causes of disasters.
 And, around 1990s the paradigm shifted to plan and
implement measures to mitigate the effects of a disasters.

6. HISTORY OF GLOBAL DISASTERS
 The terms global disasters have been a recurrent and
integral part of Earth history.
 Extinction of dinosaurs.
 Destruction of Indus valley civilization.
 Earthquake in Syria and upper Egypt.
 First and second world wars.
 2004 Indian ocean tsunami.

7. IMPACTS OF GLOBALIZATION ON
DISASTER STUSIES
 Positive Impact
 Local issues become global issues.
 New term came forward that is vast channels of
development.
 Interchanging of ideas, technology, information giving
birth to new inventions in different fields.
 Disaster Management became a international issue.

8.  Negative Impact
 Climate Change
 Land use & Land Cover Change
 Deforestation and Land Degradation
 Biological Invasion
 Biodiversity Depletion
 Rate of Disaster increased
 Increase in Vulnerability

9. CONCLUSION
 Globalization and mitigation of disasters
 More concerted effort and substantial reallocation
of resources.
 The United Nations has rightly understood that the root
of the problem is political and diplomatic.

10.  Thus the Hyogo Protocol, formulated at the 2005 World
Conference on Disaster Reduction in Japan, emphasizes
the need to draw disaster risk reduction into the
mainstream of policy formulation and implementation.
 Although it is presently unclear as to what sort of
event will provoke radical change in the
international community's attitude to disasters .

11. ARIGATO