Concept of Emergency Management

The concept of Emergency management can be understood in the following terms:

Prevention

This refers to the events and policies preceding to a Emergency which has the capacity to the reduce the impact of Emergency are called prevention. The construction of sponge-based infrastructures which can absorb the shocking effect of an earthquake can be considered a prevention strategy.

Preparedness

This deals with the level of severity and provides its effective management such that the impact can be reduced to a certain level. Building a family Emergency plan and keeping an Emergency kit are the measures which can help in mitigating the impact aftermath an Emergency.

Response/Relief

During an Emergency, the measures taken to the effect of reducing the vulnerability of the populace, such as mitigating to a safer place, providing food supply, etc. are the relief measures. A proper management and citizen-centric approach has the ability to reduce the impact of an Emergency to a greater extent.

Recovery

Post-Emergency, the strategy to build back better the economy and the society which involves government support and people participation completes the cycle of Emergency management.

Emergency being an overarching phenomenon has the ability to impact the lives and livelihoods of the greater population. It involves disruption in the normal functioning of an economy which can be caused as a result of improper Emergency management policies and neglect of Emergency risk reduction strategies. It can, though having a region-specific occurrence, sometimes affect a particular section of the group, thus making it sector-specific.

This article deals with such specifications where the sector and its impacts can be clearly visible.