All about the Earth's natural environment, features, and processes, focusing on landforms, climate, soils, water, and ecosystems.
Financial Management of Disaster Impacts is a strategic framework focused on ensuring that governments, businesses, and individuals have the immediate liquidity and long-term funding necessary to respond to, recover from,…
Long-Term Effects of Hazards and Disasters Disasters are an increasingly phenomena that we all clearly perceive and know that may have a direct impact on the welfare of regions where…
Sudden Impacts of Disasters 01. Physical Impacts of Disasters Disasters have physical effects like loss of life, injury, disability and other health problems, and impacts psychologically as well. Disasters inflict…
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in April 1986 was caused by a faulty Soviet reactor design andcritical errors made by the plant‘s operators.This incident was directly linked to the…
On December 3, 1984, over 500,000 people in the vicinity of the “Union Carbide India Limited” (a pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India) were exposed to the highly toxic…
Earth, from the day of its coming into existence, has been experiencing hundreds of types of disasters. Some of these disasters have led to many mass extinctions and drastic consequences…
Types of Disasters Disasters can be categorised based on their causes. Some disasters are merely caused by natural hazards and are known as “Natural Disasters”, while others are triggered by…
Characteristics of a Disaster In order to be able to identify that a situation is a disaster, the following characteristics must be eminent and must seem to resonate with the…
COMMON TERMINOLOGIES Disaster Management: The body of policy and administrative decisions and operational activities which pertain to the various stages of a disaster at all levels. Risk: The…
Introduction to Disasters Disaster is an extremely fundamental phenomenon in human history. Disaster is a sudden, calamitous, and horrific event that causes great damage and destruction and poses a risk…
Akram Jan Jaffar