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Disaster Risk Management
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Disaster Risk Management

by Dr. Huong Ha, Dr. R. S. Fernando, Sanjeev Kumar Mahajan
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
220 pages
5h 36m
English
Business Expert Press
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CHAPTER 2

The Process of Disaster Management

Practices from Disaster—Affected Countries

Md Nurul Momen

Department of Public Administration, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

 

Introduction

Natural disasters have profound reoccurring effects on the future direction of human life on the planet. Having reviewed the contemporary literature on natural disaster, itis found that the impact of recent disasters is very much different compared to the disasters that occurred in prehistoric times. Even after knowing the dangers of unplanned development, many states still allow some projects to operate in the disaster-prone areas, which threatens the environment and social livelihoods. For example, every year on the Indian subcontinent cyclones ...

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ISBN: 9781949443073