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This document discusses disaster and crisis management. It defines key terms like problem, crisis, disaster and catastrophe. It explains that disaster management seeks to improve prevention, mitigation, preparedness, emergency response and recovery through systematic analysis of disasters. The definition of disaster is important for policy, organization, planning and legislation. It presents the disaster management cycle as a continuum of interlinked activities rather than separate events. Traditional natural disasters like earthquakes, cyclones and floods persist as threats.

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Lecture 1

This document discusses disaster and crisis management. It defines key terms like problem, crisis, disaster and catastrophe. It explains that disaster management seeks to improve prevention, mitigation, preparedness, emergency response and recovery through systematic analysis of disasters. The definition of disaster is important for policy, organization, planning and legislation. It presents the disaster management cycle as a continuum of interlinked activities rather than separate events. Traditional natural disasters like earthquakes, cyclones and floods persist as threats.

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‫ النظريت والتطبيق‬- ‫إدارة األزماث والكوارث‬

Disaster and Crisis Management


Theory and Practice
MMCD6302-3566

Prof Mohammad R Al-Agha


IUG
1st semester 2022- 2023
Purpose

• The purpose of this lecture is to remind the


significance of disaster in today’s life.
• This is in order that individual disaster
management officials may assess this
significance in relation to their own
circumstances.
Terminology
• Problem
• Crisis
• Disaster
• Catastrophe
Problem

• Something that has to be solved or


• an unpleasant or undesirable condition that
needs to be corrected.

• A situation, matter, or person that is hard to


deal with or understand
Problem
• A personal matter that causes one difficulty
or needs to be dealt with

• A puzzling circumstance.
The significance of Disaster
• The significance of disaster in today’s
environment sometimes comes under
question.

• Why do we need to bother so much ?


Disaster
• An event, natural or man-made, sudden or
progressive, which impacts with such severity
that the affected community has to respond
by taking exceptional measures.
Disaster management :

• An applied science which seeks, by the


systematic observation and analysis of
disasters, to improve measures relating to
prevention, mitigation, preparedness,
emergency response and recovery.
Practical Application of Disaster
Definition
• There is an important practical application of
the definition of disaster in disaster
management.
• Such definition helps provide a common
concept and theme throughout disaster
management activities. Thus, the chosen
definition is valuable for purposes of policy,
organization, planning, and legislation.
The Disaster Management Cycle
• A standard cycle of disaster events has been
used throughout the handbook. It is illustrated
below:
The Disaster Management Cycle
• The cycle can be, and often is portrayed in
other forms. Moreover, alternative
terminology may be used. The important
factor is that the format should indicate that
disaster and its management is a continuum
of interlinked activities; it is not a series of
events which start and stop with each disaster
occurrence.
The Traditional Disaster Threat
• Natural Phenomena Such As:
• Earthquakes,
• Cyclones,
• Volcanic Eruptions,
• Tsunamis,
• Wildfires,
• Floods,
• Landslides, And
• Drought Still Persist

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