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Disaster overview
The document discusses disaster management and preparedness for cyclones. It outlines key elements at risk from cyclones like housing, crops, and infrastructure. Effective preparedness requires assessing vulnerabilities, planning response mechanisms, and educating the public. Response activities during a cyclone include evacuation, search and rescue, emergency relief, and expediting post-disaster rehabilitation and reconstruction. Preparedness aims to minimize losses by taking precautionary actions and ensuring timely emergency response.
Disaster overview
- 1. DISASTER MANAGEMENT AN OVERVIEW
- 2. Damage CYCLONE Potential Poorer than Society before Elements at Risk Disruption of Huge Losses/ Normal life & Damages Development Suffers
- 3. Damage HAZARD Potential Awareness- Effect on Elements Quicker Society Recovery Elements at Risk Action Communities Plans More Huge Losses/ Resilient Damages Reduced More Stable Society Losses
- 4. Damage HAZARD Potential Elements at Risk Societal Elements Natural Features People & Live-stock River/Stream Banks Huts & Semi-permanent Houses Low-lying Areas Weak Buildings Sea & Sea-coast Agri. & Horticultural crops Slopes of hills Livelihood tools / Equipment Unsecured personal assets Public Infrastructure
- 5. Scale of Disaster IsDependent on : • Lead Time Available. • Intensity of Hazard. • Duration. • Spatial Extent. • Density of Population & Assets. • Time of Occurrence. • Vulnerabilities existing in the Elements at Risk. • Hazard X Vulnerability = Disaster
- 6. ELEMENTS AT RISK •People • Livestock • Rural Housing Stock • Houses Vulnerable • Crops, Trees,Telephone, Electric poles • Boats, Looms, Working Implements • Personal Property • Electricity, Water and Food Supplies • Infrastructure Support
- 7. AIMS OF DISASTERMANAGEMENT • Reduce (Avoid, if possible) the potential losses from hazards. • Assure prompt and appropriate assistance to victims when necessary. • Achieve rapid and durable recovery.
- 8. DISASTER MANAGEMENT CYCLE PRE-DISASTER DURING DISASTER POST- DISASTER
- 9. Stages of Disaster Cyclone BEFORE DURING AFTER Jan - Apr MAY June- Oct Well Before Weeks-Months Just Before - Actual Time Hours Period Rescue Relief Rehabilitation Reconstruction
- 10. Role Players inDisasters • People : Individuals, House -Holds, Volunteers • Gram Panchayat : Sarpanch, Panchayati Secretary, Panchayati Members • Village Elders : Caste/Community/Religious Leaders, Teachers, Doctors, Engineers, Retired Army & Police Personnel • Govt. Deptl. Officers : Agriculture, Medical, Engineers (Housing, Roads & Buildings, Irrigation) Revenue Department, Public Health, Police etc. NGOs
- 11. DEFINITIONS OF “VULNERABILITY” • “The extent to which a community, structure, service or geographic area is likely to be damaged or disrupted by the impact of particular disaster hazard…” • “Vulnerability is the propensity of things to be damaged by a hazard”.
- 12. DISASTER PREPAREDNESS • Disaster preparedness aims at minimizing the adverse effects of a hazard - • Through effective precautionary actions • Ensure timely, appropriate and efficient organisation and delivery of emergency response following the impact of a disaster.
- 13. PREPAREDNESS • Vulnerability Analysisand Mapping to include Resources. • Assess strengthening requirements and execute. • Funding for preparedness must be arranged. • Peoples’ cooperation through Political leaders, elders, Volunteers and NGOs • Create lead time by interpreting Warnings • Plan to include movement of resources with time frame. • Aim to reduce the destructive potential of cyclones, timely & appropriate relief to victims and quick & durable recovery
- 14. Disaster Preparedness Framework COMPONENTS OF PREPAREDNESS Vulnerability Planning Institutional Assessment Framework Information Resource Warning System Base Systems Response Public Rehearsals Mechanisms Education and Training
- 15. Disaster Response Activities • Warning • Evacuation/Mitigation • Search and Rescue • Assessment • Emergency Relief • Logistics and Supply • Communication and information Management • Survivor Response and coping • Security • EOC & coordination • Expedite rehabilitation and reconstruction.
- 16. Floods and WaterHazards Elements at Risk Main Mitigation • Everything in the Strategies. flood plain. • Land use control • Earthen or soluble • Engineering of strictures structures • Elevation of structures • Buried services • Flood control and utilities structures • Food stores • Reforestation projects • Crops and (watershed management) livestock
- 17. Strong Winds Main Mitigation Elements at Risk Strategies. • Lightweight structures. • Elevated utilities • Structural (Power and engineering communication lines) measures. • Fishing boats and • Planting of other maritime industries. windbreaks.
Editor's Notes
- #3 If you look at the right half of the slide you will find that the damage potential in the hazard causes the damages to the society Life comes to a halt and the poorer sections of the society can never recover to the pre-disaster causes serious disruption to life of the society But with awareness and preparation through action plans the society suffers less damages and is thus a more stable society.to recover faster.
- #4 If you look at the right half of the slide you will find that the damage potential in the hazard causes the damages to the society Life comes to a halt and the poorer sections of the society can never recover to the pre-disaster causes serious disruption to life of the society But with awareness and preparation through action plans the society suffers less damages and is thus a more stable society.to recover faster.
- #5 If you look at the right half of the slide you will find that the damage potential in the hazard causes the damages to the society Life comes to a halt and the poorer sections of the society can never recover to the pre-disaster causes serious disruption to life of the society But with awareness and preparation through action plans the society suffers less damages and is thus a more stable society.to recover faster.