Natural disaster management in India with focus on floods and cyclones

International Conference on Civil Engineering and Infrastructural Issues in Emerging Economies 2017

土木建筑工程;经济学

Thattai, Deeptha V.^1 ; Sathyanathan, R.^1 ; Dinesh, R.^1 ; Harshit Kumar, L.^1

Department of Civil Engineering, SRM University, Chennai

603203, India^1

关键词: Chemical spill;    Disaster management;    High population density;    Major natural disasters;    Man-made disasters;    Natural disasters;    Paper analysis;    Relative degrees;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/80/1/012054/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/80/1/012054

学科分类：土木及结构工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Disasters are of two major kinds, natural and manmade, and affect the community. Natural disasters are caused by natural earth processes like floods, droughts, cyclones, tsunamis, earthquakes and epidemics. Manmade disasters occur due to chemical spills, accidents, terrorism activities etc. India is prone to almost all the major natural disasters. The high population density combined with poor preparedness, planning and management, and rescue and relief measures inevitably lead to huge losses of lives and property every year in the country. This paper analyses the disaster management policy of India and its implementation using two recent case studies - one where a relative degree of success has been achieved (cyclones) and the other where we are still struggling to have even a basic preparedness system in place (floods).