4. Answer the following questions.
(a) What is meant by 'disasters'?
(b) What are the types of disasters?
(c) What is meant by 'disaster
management?
(d) Which are the main components of
disaster management?
Answers
Answer:
a)
A disaster is a sudden, calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material, and economic or environmental losses that exceed the community's or society's ability to cope using its own resources. Though often caused by nature, disasters can have human origins.
b)Types of Disasters
Agricultural diseases & pests.
Damaging Winds.
Drought and water shortage.
Earthquakes.
Emergency diseases (pandemic influenza)
Extreme heat.
Floods and flash floods.
Hail.
c)Disaster Management can be defined as the organization and management of resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies, in particular preparedness, response and recovery in order to lessen the impact of disasters.
d) The components of disaster management are as follows:
Preparedness.
Disastrous Impact.
Response.
Recovery.
Development.
Mitigation.
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Answer:
what do you understand by disaster