Disasters and Their Management
Disaster Management
Regional Disaster Analysis
Both natural and human caused disasters have been an issue in the safety of human beings all over the world. Fortunately, there are international agencies that are created for the purpose of mitigation purposes and assist in the prevention of disaster effects that would be more adverse. State governments also have the obligation of adopting the right preventive and counter actions to assist in cushioning citizens from the effects of disasters. This paper, therefore, analyzes the types of disasters in Africa, and the theoretical approaches in the management of the disasters. Under management of disasters, different factors are discussed including response, preparedness and recovery and mitigation practices. There is also a review of both the International Agencies and Local Governments, relating to their preparedness in responding to disasters. Finally, there is an analysis on the partnership relationships between public and private agencies to create a stronger defensive force against the adversity of disasters.
Disaster Management
Introduction
For many years now, the globe has experienced a continuous and successive era of disasters, which have had a negative impact on the lives of many, causing diseases and going to extremes of causing deaths. The most common disasters include earthquakes, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, landslides, floods and dreadful diseases (Christopher & Tatham, 2011). Currently, most of the disasters have been triggered by human activity. These human activities include inappropriate control of the environment, poor land use planning and lack of legislative and institutional arrangements to curb disasters. The effects of these disasters remain to be a threat to human development.
Disasters in Africa
Across all the continents in the world, Africa is the only continent that has experienced an increase in disasters in the past decade. By the end of 2007, estimated 33 million individuals were infected with HIV AIDS. A large percentage of this population was in Africa. In the developing countries, most of the deaths are caused by AIDS as the fifth major killer. The case in...
Disaster and Internation Agencies Countries face increased risk from a full range of known to unknown crisis. Disaster consequences have greater severe effects on populations and environments. The governments try their level best to take action to prepare for and mitigate the effects of this natural, technological and intentional hazard. Although efforts have been invested in curbing the occurrences of this hazard it still becomes difficult, not only to local response
This fact has made recovery and preparation for the next disaster all the more difficult. The critical infrastructures in the world, and in the U.S. In particular, have become increasingly dependent on one another. Disasters that singly affect one critical infrastructure will have cascading negative effects for all of the other interdependent infrastructures. In those cases in which energy infrastructures are damaged from the outset, the impacts on the rest
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