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    The document discusses disaster preparedness and management in information services. It defines hazards as potentially damaging events that can lead to disasters when affecting vulnerable populations. The key aspects of disaster management are mitigation, response, and recovery. Mitigation involves structural and non-structural measures to limit hazard impacts. Response provides emergency services during or after disasters. Recovery aims to restore pre-disaster conditions while reducing future risks. Disaster risk management systematically uses policies and resources to lessen hazard impacts through the disaster risk management cycle of pre-disaster, response, and post-disaster phases.

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    The document discusses disaster preparedness and management in information services. It defines hazards as potentially damaging events that can lead to disasters when affecting vulnerable populations. The key aspects of disaster management are mitigation, response, and recovery. Mitigation involves structural and non-structural measures to limit hazard impacts. Response provides emergency services during or after disasters. Recovery aims to restore pre-disaster conditions while reducing future risks. Disaster risk management systematically uses policies and resources to lessen hazard impacts through the disaster risk management cycle of pre-disaster, response, and post-disaster phases.

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    BLIS 4806: Disaster Preparedness and

    Management in Information Services


    Sellina Kapondera, PhD.
    Disaster preparedness
    Hazard
    • Malawi faces a number of hazards or risks that can potentially develop into disasters of some kind
    • A hazard is a potentially damaging physical event which may harm people, their economic assets,
    infrastructure and environment.
    • It is characterized by duration, magnitude. Area affected, speed of onset and frequency.
    • Examples of hazards include:
    • floods., droughts
    • Strong winds
    • Hail storms
    • Electrical storms
    • Climate change
    • Fire
    • Earthquakes
    • Diseases
    Disaster preparedness
    • A hazard develops into a disaster when it affects a vulnerable population
    • Miller (2010) defines a disaster as unexpected occurrence with seriously destructive consequences
    • Miller’s definition could be misleading a bit as it recognizes a disaster as an unexpected
    occurrence because as we have seen a disaster often results from a hazard which exists hence it
    can be expected and measures could be taken either to mitigate its impact or manage it
    Disaster preparedness

    Mitigation
    • Refers to structural and non-structural measures undertaken to limit the impact of
    hazards in related to distasters
    • Takes place before, during or after disaster
    • An example of mitigation of disasters in a library setting could be installation of
    fire extinguishers.

    Response
    • Provision of emergency services and public assistance during or immediately after
    a disaster in order to save lives and ensure public safety
    Disaster preparedness

    Recovery
    • Refers to the decisions and actions taken after a disaster with the view to restoring or improving
    the pre-disaster living conditions of the stricken community while encouraging and facilitating
    necessary adjustments to reduce disaster risks.
    • It includes rehabilitation and reconstruction of infrastructure and restoration of livelihoods

    Disaster prevention
    • Refers to activities or measures that provide outright avoidance of adverse impact of hazards and
    related disasters.
    • Examples
    • Dams to prevent floods
    Disaster Risk Management

    • Refers to the systematic process of using administrative decisions and


    organization’s operational skills and capacities to implement policies, strategies
    and coping capacities of the society and communities to lessen the impact of
    natural hazards and related environmental and technological disasters.
    •
    Disaster Risk Management Cycle

    • It is a set of actions that are undertaken by various players before and after the
    occurrence of a disaster.
    • These actions are categorized into three.
    • Pre-disaster
    • Response
    • Post disaster
    Disaster Risk Management Cycle
    Pre disaster
    • Risk-Assessment
    • Mitigation/prevention
    • Preparedness
    Disaster Risk Management Cycle

    Response
    • Warning/evaluation
    • Saving people/information resources
    • Providing immediate assistance
    • Assessing damage
    Disaster Risk Management Cycle

    Post disaster
    • Ongoing assistance
    • Restoration of infrastructural services
    • Reconstruction
    • Resettlement
    • Relocation
    • Economic and social recovery
    • Ongoing developmental activities
    • Risk assessment/mitigation/prevention

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