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The paper presents Executive Order No. 10 regarding Forced Evacuation in the municipality of Banate, outlining definitions of key terms like disaster, imminent danger, and forced evacuation. It emphasizes community preparedness and mitigation strategies, including training residents on disaster risks and coordination among local officials and agencies for effective response during emergencies.
Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center), 2001
2016
Despite the fact that there is a difference between the terms disaster, crisis and emergency, they are closely interconnected, interdependent and overlap significantly. With a blurred line between the definitions of these terms, the mainstream literature uses the terms disaster, crisis and emergency interchangeably and in combination such as 'disaster crisis management' and 'crisis and emergency management'. The aim of this article is to systematically and critically review the arguments and counterarguments about the definitions of disaster, crisis, and emergency to date. A comprehensive literature review in the relevant field has been conducted in order to improve understanding of these phenomena. A qualitative conceptual content analysis has been carried out to establish the differences and similarities between disaster, crisis and emergency. The analysis reveals that the sudden nature of the event and the damage caused are the common features of all three terms, though emergency is not always of a sudden nature. Further, many common features have been identified between disaster and crisis, so that they can be used interchangeably up to a certain extent. The term emergency does not share many common features with the other two terms and has some contradictory features. Also, the authors conclude that both crisis and emergency would lead to disaster if the event were neglected or mismanaged.
2015
There is a need to harmonise the definitions for disaster terms from a wide range of glossaries and other sources, to build a more unitary foundation for further research, policy and practice. As a first step in a wider programme of research, we present an analysis of the term disaster. Definitions for disaster were obtained from glossaries found in books, reports and internet sites. One of these sources was the National Library of Medicine (NLM), USA which contained 62 disaster related glossaries. A total of 110 glossaries were found containing disaster terminology however, only 52 identified contained definitions for the word disaster. Leximancer software was used to analyse consensus between the different definitions identified, by mapping the connectivity of words and associated concepts. 128 different disaster definitions were identified and included in the analysis, which detected main themes of: disruption; ability; widespread; event; outside; damage; property; and overwhelm. Hence the most consistent definition for disaster appeared to be 'the widespread disruption and damage to a community that exceeds its ability to cope and overwhelms its resources'. This paper reports on only one term, namely disaster, for which there seems to be little consensus throughout the research and wider community. A number of other limitations are outlined, which are being considered for the ongoing analysis of over 100 disaster-related terms.
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2008
Defining the concept of disaster is a tough challenge. The Merriam Webster dictionary defines a disaster as “a sudden calamitous event bringing great damage, loss or destruction”, but such a definition is not useful to describe the variety of events which can be described as a disaster. More specific definitions are the ones given by the 30th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent as “a serious disruption of the functioning of society, which poses a significant, widespread threat to human life, health, property or the environment, whether arising from accident, nature or human activity, whether developing suddenly or as the result of long-term processes, but excluding armed conflict” or the one by the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) in Belgium: “A disaster is a situation or event which overwhelms local capacity, necessitating a request to a national or international level for external assistance”. David E. Alexander identifies a natural disaster as “some rapid, instantaneous or profound impact of the natural environment upon the socio- economic system”, and in 1976 Turner defined natural disaster as “an event, concentrated in time and space, which threatens a society or a relatively self-sufficient subdivision of a society with major unwanted consequences as a result of the collapse of precautions which had hitherto been culturally accepted as adequate”. According to literature, disasters are commonly divided into two families, natural or man-made: natural ones are those related to severe weather conditions, like blizzards, tornados, cyclones, draughts and floods, or to geological matters, like volcano eruptions or earthquakes. On the other hand, man-made disasters, related to man’s activities, like the Cernobyl nuclear accident or the Seveso dioxin release, or non-industrial disasters like forest fires initiated by man, have been cause of great concern. Disaster is a complex concept, which is strictly related to the basics of human beings, as it attempts to havoc lives, properties and has a severe psychosocial impact on affected communities. This kind of events has always been threatening man throughout history; what has changed through the generations is the way disasters are considered, from a punishment sent on Earth by the Gods, to overpowering and unpredictable calamities due to ungovernable nature laws, to events somehow related to human activities, and the way crisis are man- aged. In the last years, disaster risk reduction has been to be considered the first priority, and a lot of job has been done about it (e.g. UN’s Disaster Risk Decade, Hyogo Framework). The aim of this paper is to analyze the legal environment related to international disaster response, discuss its lacunas and stress the crucial role of international law in humanitar- ian assistance operations.
SpringerBriefs in Space Development, 2014
Disasters are a fact of life, and this will always be the case. There are a wide variety of both natural and manmade disasters that occur around the world daily, and their impact can be both devastating and long-lasting. Natural disasters result from processes such as earthquakes, floods and cyclones, volcanoes, and even extreme solar storms and the impact of asteroids, while human-caused disasters result from societal or even individual actions. These can include epidemics, intentionally set forest fires, riots, toxic spills, and chemical, nuclear, and biological accidents or terrorist attacks. Some incidents are a combination of the two, such as the intentional sabotage of a dam that floods a large area. Some of these incidents occur with some amount of warning, such as tropical cyclones, but many, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and tornados, occur suddenly, and can impact large areas with little or no prior warning.
The multitude of terms used to refer to or describe a "Disaster" often varies with the individual understanding of the author about the event at hand. A few salient examples of terms used commonly in the print and electronic media include innumerable and diverse renderings. From the archaic-bale, mishanter; to the more commonly used-accident, catastrophe, emergency, mishap, flood, calamity, cataclysm, tragedy, holocaust, accident, mishap, misadventure, mischance, setback, reversal, reverse of fortune, contretemps, stroke of ill luck and act of God etc. With so many variations and semantics affecting the word itself, the authors were set thinking about what the understanding of the word "Disaster" is and what it means globally-to various people, organisations and countries. Disasters are the constant companions of mankind. Mostly, any talk of disasters center's only around natural disasters with anthropogenically caused disasters not being given adequate credence. The paper elaborates on the term of CBRN-an acronym for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (National Disaster Management Authority, 2008) and discusses them in light of the fact that these types of weapons have the ability to create both mass casualties as well as mass disruption of society. Emergency responders must be able to recognize and mitigate attacks from such weapons. It is equally important for the public to be aware of these types of weapons and how best to respond in the event of an attack; chances of survival are significantly increased. An attempt to understand the connotation with which the word "disaster" is used by various major organisations and countries, around the world and if at all they refer to the term or encompass the subject of CBRN warfare in general-to their understanding of the term "disaster", has been deliberated upon in the paper. A typology of disasters is propounded to enable a better understanding of the term "disaster", as also recommendations have been put forward to improve the definitions which deal with the term under discussion.
isara solutions, 2022
The history of disasters is much older than the history of mankind. Even before emergence of human life on earth, there were frequent disasters destroying existing infrastructure of an area or flora or fauna. But being no human life at all, these disasters had no meaning. This was because there was no concept of value or price or property. Thus even if some natural disaster devastated any natural system or topographic shape, that did not carry any meaning in absence of human being. With the emergence of human life on earth the term disasters started gaining some meaning or importance. Frequently struck by disasters, man started thinking about their cause and cures. The same thinking is still continuing. The only difference is that now their causes and cures are systematically thought upon and scientifically analysed, as contrary to ancient days, when people found their causes and cures in some divine power. With the rise of scientific temper along with rising importance of matters pertaining to disaster, the subject of disaster became so important that it developed into a full fledged discipline, which is now known as a subject or discipline of namely 'Disaster Management'. Concept and Definition of Disasters The term 'disaster' has been derived from two French words 'des' and 'aster'. Here 'des' means 'fall' and 'aster' mean 'asteroid'. Thus disaster of des-aster mean 'fall of asteroid'. Thus as regard the origin or anatomy of this word i.e. disaster is concerned; the term 'disaster' is identified with fall of asteroid. In ancient times, like in many other countries (including India) when people saw the rays or light of falling asteroid, they took it as a bad omen. Taking it as a bad presage they believed that some calamity was going to fall. The word 'disaster' has been originated or coined resulting out of this very belief or idea. This is very difficult to say the way and how this idea caught the roots and was so much popularized over the time that the same thought had a wide spread-effect over different parts of the world. This flew through generations to generations and believed even now in some parts of world (so in India as well). Even today some people do beleine that if some asteroid falls then some casualties are bound to come. But the most popular and most rational view is that during an early period of formation of earth or origin of mankind , the frequency of asteroid-fall was very high and they always brought about great devastation of lives and resources. People took it as manifestation of divine anger and by the by started to associate or identify them with disasters. The same meaning still continues to prevail and the word disaster is identified with wide and large scale destruction of lives, livelihood, property, infrastructure, means of logistics, civil amenities etc.
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