Disaster management

1. INTRODUCTION
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8. • The causes of man made disasters are:
1. ignorance
2. unawareness
3. illiteracy
4. carelessly handling of dangerous
chemicals,weapons,etc.

11. • Every year in a country like India, natural disasters
like floods and cyclones are fairly frequent.
Earthquakes also occur time and again. The
occurrences of such disasters, their intensity, the
area/region of their occurrences and their impact
has to be assessed, so as to have information/data
about the damages caused by them to the
area/population specific or probable damages or
impact likely to be caused. Proper mapping will be
helpful not only for pre-disaster preparedness but
also in rescue and relief operations with greater
accuracy and speed.

15. • Emergency management is the generic
name of an interdisciplinary field
dealing with the strategic
organizational management processes
used to protect critical assets of an
organization from hazard risks that can
cause disasters or catastrophes, and to
ensure the continuance of the
organization within their planned
lifetime. Assets are categorized as
either living things, non-living

16. ACKNOWLEDGEMEN
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• I want to acknowledge all those
who helped me . Firstly I want to
thank KAVITA TYAGI Ma’am who
assisted me this project.
• I have taken information from
wikipedia and pictures from
different websites.