Natural Calamity - Disaster Management
A hazard is a potential threat; exposure and vulnerability turn that threat into risk, while a disaster is the damaging event that overwhelms lives, property or normal activity.
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Natural Calamity and Disaster Management: Hazard, Risk and Disaster
A hazard is a potential threat; exposure and vulnerability turn that threat into risk, while a disaster is the damaging event that overwhelms lives, property or normal activity.
Open article →Natural Calamity and Disaster Management: The Management Cycle
Disaster management is a continuous sequence linking prevention and mitigation with preparedness, emergency response, rehabilitation, reconstruction and recovery.
Open article →Natural Calamity and Disaster Management: Preparedness and Responders
Prepared communities use warnings, plans, training and emergency supplies, while police, firefighters, medical teams, hospitals and local people provide the first life-saving response.
Open article →Natural Calamity and Disaster Management: Earthquakes and Tsunamis
Plate movement produces earthquakes with a focus and epicentre; submarine displacement can generate fast tsunami waves, so immediate cover or movement to high ground saves lives.
Open article →Natural Calamity Management in Tamil Nadu: Landslides, Floods and Cyclones
Nilgiris slopes face water-triggered landslides, coastal districts face northeast-monsoon floods, and Bay of Bengal cyclones demand warnings, evacuation and safe recovery.
Open article →Natural Calamity and Disaster Management: Wildfire Risk Reduction
Hot dry vegetation supplies fuel, wind accelerates wildfire spread, and safer homes depend on defensible space, evacuation planning, verified warnings and cautious return.
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