What is Emergency Management?
It is an attempt to enquire into the process of hazard turning into the Emergency, to identify the causes of the same, analyze the impact of it and reducing the said impact through people-centric policies and programs.
Administrative factors such as poor land use planning in flood prone areas, poor implementation of laws that lead to Emergency such as Bhopal Gas leak, general low risk perception, etc. create conditions that lead to inherent hazards turning into Emergency. Hence, sustainable development is closely interlinked with Emergency management as most Emergency are caused by human factors.
Usually, Emergency Management is interpreted as eliminating Emergency but it is always important to remember that it may or may not completely eliminate the threats. However, to Build Back Better the world and its population, it focuses on the preparedness and mitigation strategy so that the impacts can be greatly reduced.
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.
Table of Content
- What is an Emergency?
- Types of Emergency
- What is Emergency Management?
- Concept of Emergency Management
- What is Emergency Risk?
- Conclusion
- FAQ’s – Emergency Management