Description
Five Year Plan documents have, historically, not included consideration of issues relating to the management and mitigation of natural disasters. The traditional perception has been limited to the idea of "calamity relief", which is seen essentially as a non-plan item of expenditure...
Description
Disasters disrupt progress and destroy the hard-earned fruits of painstaking developmental efforts, often pushing nations, in quest for progress, back by several decades. Thus, efficient management of disasters, rather than mere response to their occurrence has, in recent times...
Description
India has been traditionally vulnerable to natural disasters on account of its unique geo-climatic conditions. Floods, droughts, cyclones, earthquakes and landslides have been a recurrent phenomena.
Government of India
Ministry of Home Affairs
DISASTER MANAGEMENT IN INDIA
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Description
Natural processes or phenomenon that may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, property damage, loss of livelihoods and services, social and economic disruption, or environmental damage.
GOVERNMENT OF KENYA
MINISTRY OF STATE FOR SPECIAL PROGRAMMES
OFFICE OF THE...
REPORT
ON
A REVIEW OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT
LEGISLATION AND POLICY IN QUEENSLAND
Jim O'Sullivan, AC, APM,
and
The Consultancy Bureau Pty Ltd
August 2009
Report on Review of Disaster Management
Legislation and Policy in Queensland
09-051 Report FINAL
Table of Contents
Executive...
Description
Manitoba Health, through its programs and its Disaster Management Branch, aims to develop safer communities that suffer fewer deaths, physical injuries and psycho-social trauma as a result of disasters.
DISASTER MANAGEMENT MODEL
FOR THE HEALTH SECTOR
Guideline for Program...
Description
The Queensland Government is committed to safer, and more secure and resilient communities in Queensland through world-class disaster management arrangements.
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