Survey of Emergency and Disaster Mgt (Disaster Preparedness & Response )

Running Head : DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Survey of Emergency and Disaster Management : Disaster Preparedness and Response

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Survey of Emergency and Disaster Management : Disaster Preparedness and Response

Introduction

There are a number of security related challenges which are always related to the manner in which various organizational and disasters , urgencies , and other issues are managed . Fire , plane crashes , hurricanes , floods , earthquakes , accidents , and road accidents are some of the common disasters that could be suffered either by individual persons or by both large and small scale

organizations (Alexander 2002 . The four phases of disaster management implementation include the mitigation phase , response phase , preparedness and the recovery phases

Survey of Emergency and Disaster Management

Different kinds of disaster and emergencies are best controlled by different phases of disaster management and control mechanisms . The mitigation phase , for instance , is normally put in to usage ones a given disaster has already occurred . This could best be used in cases where a hurricane wind has taken place . Wisner , Blaikie , Cannon , Davis (2004 argues that in such circumstances , there is always the dire need to ensure that the harm caused by the already existing disaster is minimized . This phase could therefore entail taking people from the hurricane prone zones to fairly same regions . Technological solutions could be employed in cases where the migration of the hurricane disaster needs technological communication to talk to the concerned people and inform them of the existing safe regions among offering other rescue measures

On the other hand...