Disaster Recovery Management Introduction
11th APAN @ Xi’an China on27th August 2007
By Sagarika Wickramasekera
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Content
• What is Disaster Management
• Phenomenon of Natural Disaster in Asia Pacific Region
• Why we need Disaster Management
• Disaster Mitigation methods
• Application of Information Technology in Disaster Management
• Role Of Sahana in Disaster Management
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What is Disaster Management
• Discipline dealing with and avoiding risks • Involves preparing, supporting, and
rebuilding society when natural or man made disasters occur
• Continuous process by which all individuals, groups, and communities manage hazards in an effort to avoid or ameliorate the impact of disasters resulting from the hazards
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Why We Need Disaster Management
• For Early Warning
• To foreseeing future disasters
• To Take prevention methods on reliable information
• To prohibit Natural disaster occurrence sources.
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Phenomenon of Natural Disasters
• Many Developing and Developed countries of Asia Pacific Region are situated in the hazard belts if the world and are subject to – Floods– Landslides– Earthquakes– Cyclones– Droughts– Volcanic eruptions – Tsunami– Epdemics
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Occurrence of Disasters
• Cyclones– Philippines – 38 % of world total – 30 per year– Bangladesh– Vietnam– Fiji– Tonga– Solomon Islands– Samova
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Occurrence of Disasters Contd.
Floods – – India
• Annual floods inundate 40 million hectares
– Bangladesh • One of the most flood prone countries in the region
– Sri Lanka • Seasonal floods
– China• Annual summer floods
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Occurrence of Disasters Contd.
• Droughts– Afghanistan – Iran– Myanmar– Pakistan – India– Sri Lanka– Nepal
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Occurrence of Disasters
contd.• Earthquakes
– 70% of the earthquakes are reported from this zone• Japan – Once in every 10 years• China- 28th July 1976 caused 240,000 deaths• Philippines- Average 5 earthquakes per day• India – Pacific ocean seismic zone or Indian ocean
seismic Zone.• Nepal, • Afghanistan, • Iran • Pacific Islands
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• Tsunami– 1883 disastrous Krakatowa volcanic eruption caused
36,000 deaths – 17th August 1976, Moro gulf in Philippines caused
8000 deaths (ESCAP,1995)– 26th December, 2004 more than 2 million deaths– Japan, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Maldives, Sri
Lanka , Thailand etc.. are the some of the badly affected countries in the Asia pacific Region
Occurrence of Disasterscontd.
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Disaster Mitigation Methods
• Education
• Training
• Development of expertise
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Applications of Information Technology in Disaster
Management
• GIS
• Remote Sensing
• Early Warning Systems
• Internet (Victims and missing persons tracking through the internet)
• National data bases
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Role of ‘Sahana’ in
Disaster Management
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