Disaster Management

DM Course Plan :

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Unit : 01

Introduction :

Concepts and definitions: disaster, hazard, vulnerability, risk, capacity, impact, prevention, mitigation

Disasters classification: Natural disasters (floods, drought, cyclones, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunami, landslides, coastal erosion, soil erosion, forest fires etc.); man-made disasters (industrial pollution, artificial flooding in urban areas, nuclear radiation, chemical spills etc); hazard and vulnerability profile of India, mountain and coastal areas, ecological fragility.

Unit : 02

Disaster Impacts :

Disaster Impacts (environmental, physical, social, ecological, economic, political, etc.); health, psycho-social issues; demographic aspects (gender, age, special needs); hazard locations; global and national disaster trends; climate-change and urban disasters. Disaster Risk Reduction.

Unit : 03

Disaster management cycle:

Phases; prevention, mitigation, preparedness, relief and recovery;

structural and non-structural measures; risk analysis, vulnerability and capacity assessment; early warning systems, Post-disaster environmental response (water, sanitation ,food safety, waste management, disease control)

Roles and responsibilities of government, community, local institutions, NGOs and Other stake holders; Policies and legislation for disaster risk reduction, DRR programmes in India and the activities of National Disaster Management Authority.

Unit : 04

Applications of Science and Technology for Disaster Management and Mitigation Geo-informatics in Disaster Management (RS, GIS and GPS), Disaster Communication System(Early Warning and Its Dissemination).

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