The Need To Address Disaster Management In Canada

Posted by ermcglobal on December 18th, 2013

Disaster management can be defined as the organization and management of resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies, in particular preparedness, response and recovery in order to lessen the impact of disasters. You will not find any country that is completely immune from disaster, though it is considerable that vulnerability to disaster varies. There are multiple types of crisis that need to be dealt on an urgent basis. But there are mainly four types of crisis.

· Natural disasters include floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and volcano eruptions that can have instantaneous impacts on human health, in addition to secondary effects such as causing further death and suffering from floods, may cause landslides, earthquakes which further result in fires, tsunamis may occur causing widespread flooding and typhoons that impact sinking ferries.

· Environmental emergencies are wide spread cause of crisis which include technological or industrial accidents, mostly they involve utility of hazardous material, and these incidents occur while producing, transporting or using these materials. Devastating forest fires are included in environmental crisis as they are caused due to human negligence.

· More complex types of crisis include break-down of authority, looting and attacks on strategic installations, conflict situations and war probabilities.

· Pandemic crisis involve a sudden onset of a contagious disease that affects health in addition to disrupting the basic services and businesses, bringing economic and social predicament.

Emergency response plans are prepared to tackle any catastrophes which interrupt essential services, such as the provision of health care, electricity, water, sewage/garbage removal, transportation and communications. These types of interruption can critically influence the health, social and economic networks of local communities in Canada. Calamities have life altering, long lasting and major impacts on people long after the urgent effect has been mitigated. In case of poor planning of relief activities they have more significant negative impacts not only on the victims but also on benefactor and relief offering agencies.

Disaster preparedness planning is undertaken by local, regional, national and international organizations and all are highly involved in increasing a humanitarian response to crisis. Such plans cover aspects of prevention, preparedness, relief and recovery.

Many crisis situations can be prevented by undertaking designed to provide permanent protection from crisis. Though not all crisis situations can be prevented specifically natural crisis but the risk of loss of life and injury can be mitigated with good evacuation and environmental planning and design standards.

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