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Disaster Management (DM)

Disaster Management (DM). Singha Raj Uprety, Director : NASC. Learning Objectives. At the end of this session we will be able to: explain the conceptual underpinnings of disasters understand the types, causes and scale of disasters; and demonstrate basic skills to manage disasters.

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Disaster Management (DM)

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  1. Disaster Management (DM) Singha Raj Uprety, Director: NASC

  2. Learning Objectives At the end of this session we will be able to: • explain the conceptual underpinnings of disasters • understand the types, causes and scale of disasters; and • demonstrate basic skills to manage disasters. sruprety

  3. Disaster? • Loss or suffering caused either by a progressive or sudden calamity or misdeed which lead to the following situation: • total or partial loss of life or properties • disruptions to normal pattern of lives sruprety

  4. Understanding disaster Basic elements required to call a disaster situation HAZARD (Cause) OCCURENCE VULNERABILITY (effect) = DISASTER sruprety

  5. Example I Until the tree falls causing losses of life property, it is just likelihood of occurring disaster Hazard DISASTER Vulnerable objects

  6. Example III Hazards • Corrupt • Politicians • Planners • Policy makers Vulnerable sruprety

  7. Understanding disaster • Hazards may be: Natural Fire, air, land and water related • Faulty plans, policies and infrast. • Misuse of scientific innovations • Abuse of natural resources • Ethical dishonesty • ……….. Human-induced • Complex Poverty, environmental degradation, terrorism, social crimes, ……. sruprety

  8. The human side of disaster sruprety

  9. Vulnerability may be: Understanding disaster Financial Physical Political Social Economic Psychological • Vulnerability is hazard dependent ! sruprety

  10. Understanding disaster Disaster should not be taken for only the tragic situation brought about by certain incidents like naturalflood, fire break, earthquake, storm etc. There are disasters prompted by human misdeeds in all sectors and in every walk of our life. (For instance, disasters are in construction field, urban settlements, consumption items, education, health, administration, religion, business, politics……) sruprety

  11. New dimensions of disasters • Climate change • Terrorism • Market pollution (in quality and quantity of goods and services) • Conflicts for • (land, water, forest, political ideology, • social prestige, sensual enjoyment…..) sruprety

  12. Level Global National Community Individual Ultimate Secondary Primary Understanding disaster Disaster levels and impacts Impacts sruprety

  13. An automobile as it rolls out of the factory is a technological success. But when it is used as a means of transport this will pollute the biosphere thus to cause disasters. Likewise, human miseries brought about by atomic energy, war weaponries so on are glaring examples in producing mega-disasters. sruprety

  14. Dilemma of asserting the most pernicious disaster Complexity in assessing the extent of loss or damage Incidences Disaster situation Hypothetical Losses Destruction or damage of lives and properties Loss of 1000 people plus the loss of Rs. 20 million worth. Earthquake or Flooding Hazardous constructions, unsafe drinking water and sewage system, garbage pilings, traffic jams…… Loss from land, air, water and sound pollution, loss of beatitude, loss from uneconomic public utility services. Unplanned Settlement Which one is bigger loss ? Untold sufferings of people from the deprivation of their homes, livelihoods, dignity, justice, human rights, democracy, mental peace etc. Conflict, insurgency, killings, kidnapping, rapping, robbery, Political Instability sruprety

  15. We can calculate the direct losses caused by a firebreak, landslide, earthquake etc. But we cannot calculate the losses brought about by the morbidity, environmental degradation, misuse of harmful technology, absence of justice for human rights, denial of democracy, unproductive educational system and so on. Therefore, in many instances the losses propelled by human induced disasters prove far greater and vulnerable per se than the losses caused by natural disasters. All this necessarily demands a fresh definition of the term Disaster. sruprety

  16. Understanding disaster Have you any question about understanding the concept of Disaster ? sruprety

  17. Disaster management • Disaster Management ? • Disaster management is a continuous process of assessing the occurrences of different types of disasters in a given location and managing such disasters by way of formulating the following alternative plans: • Preparedness Plan • Mitigation Plan • Prevention Plan sruprety

  18. Disaster management is possible Either by Controlling hazards Or by Controlling vulnerability • Thru • Technical measures • Administrative measures sruprety

  19. Disaster management Why DM? • avoid or minimize the probable losses of life and properties • follow the right path of development process. sruprety

  20. Disaster management Disaster Response • Rescue and relief • PDNA (post disaster need assessment • Sphere Standard Formulate either DM Cycle • Preparedness or • Mitigation or • Prevention Plan Recovery Reconstruction Resettlement rehabilitation Select dvmt. projects Conduct DIA sruprety

  21. Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) At the World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan, in 2005, the international community signed up to a 10-year DRR strategy. • DRR is a systematic approach to identifying, assessing and reducing the risks of disasters. • It aims to reduce socio-economic vulnerabilities to disaster through multi-pronged approach. • It is generally means the application of policies, strategies and practices to minimize disaster risks and vulnerabilities throughout society for development. sruprety

  22. ICT in DRM Information communication technology (ICT) is a means to inform vulnerable people in a quickest possible time in order to avoid or minimize the risk of their life and property. Application of ICT could be in: • pre-disaster stage • during disaster stage • post disaster stage All this will be further dealt in the upcoming sessions sruprety

  23. Disaster management Remember that you are the disaster manager first of all of yourself then of your family, your community and of your nation. sruprety

  24. My publications. • Guidelines for Improving Your Skills in Project Proposal Writing with LFA, Report Writing and Report PresentationFifth and Enlarged Edition 2008, • Aaojana prastav Lekhan 2nd Edition, 2009 • Daibi Prokop Tatha Prokop Vayvasthapan,2nd edition2066B.S.(Disaster and Disaster Management: General Concept and Nepalese Context,in Nepali). • Fundamentals of Monitoring and Evaluation,2nd Edition 2008 • People's Participation: Lesson for Better Planningpublished in 1999 by NASC. upretysr

  25. Thanks for listening ! Untouched by ITC

  26. Wish you all the best sruprety

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