IEMSD

INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

COURSES

Diploma in crisis and disaster Management

Foundation Course in Disaster Management

Foundation Course in Disaster Management
Disasters pose serious threat to the normal life as well as to the process of development. These strikes with sudden violence. tearing bodies. destroying lives. families and structures apart. Natural disasters are both sudden and powerful. Human vulnerability to them is an age-old phenomenon. The Foundation Course in Disaster Management. among other aspects. stands to familiarise the learners with the meaning. factors, significance, causes and effects of disasters. Besides providing the regional and seasonal profile of naurual disasters in India, the course also presents a global view of the disasters. In keeping with the peculiarities of various disasters, the Course deals with the vulnerability, impacts and effects, nature of damage, predictability, forecasting, etc., of various disasters namely Earthquake, Flood. Cyclone, Drought and Famine, Landslide and Snow Avalanche, Fire and Forest Fire, Industrial and Technological disasters, and Epidemics. In order to create and sustain awareness of disasters among the community and to upgrade the information, knowledge and skills of the Governmental and Non-governmental Organisations personnel dealing with disaster mitigation and management, the Course lays emphasis on disaster preparedness. To this effect. we shall be dealing specifically with essentials of disaster preparedness viz. planning, communication, leadership and co-ordination, and warehousing and stock piling. To strengthen the resilience and self-confidence of local communities and to enable them to develop Community Action Plans to deal with pre and post disasters situations, the course focuses on human behavior and response, techniques for effective community participation, effective dissemination of such information. It is a known fact that various agencies play different and significant roles in dealing with situations of disasters. Thus, we shall describe the roles of District Administration Organisations, International Agencies and Media.

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