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Title: Disaster management in India : need for an integrated approach
Authors: Sriram, Divi 
Dorasamy, Nirmala
Vipul, Nakum 
Keywords: Disaster Management;Hazard;Climate change;COVID-19;Institutional mechanism
Issue Date: 22-Jul-2022
Publisher: Disaster Advances
Source: Sriram, D., Dorasamy, N. and Vipul, N. 2022. Disaster management in India: need for an integrated approach. Disaster Advances. 15(8): 60-68 (8).
Journal: Disaster Advances; Vol. 15, Issue 8 
Abstract: 
It is now widely known that the hazards can be natural, but most disasters are ‘human-made’. The failure to
properly implement developmental policies and practices with due consideration to disaster risk
management is the leading cause of turning a hazard into a disaster.25 This, in return, negatively affects
sustainable development which ultimately affects the weakest and the poorest sections of society. Disaster
impacts have been felt on a wide range of sectors and sections of the population. They are curbing progress
made toward achieving the Sendai Framework targets, and SDGs. Climate and human-induced disaster events
have exposed several underlying facets of risks' systemic and cascading nature. There is an urgent need
to identify, analyse and better understand the multihazard, systemic and cascading nature of the disaster
and climate risks, their inter-linkages, and interplay.
A holistic understanding of risk is crucial for furthering the priorities of action laid under the Sendai
Framework and the envisioned SDGs and ensuring a better, greener, resilient and sustainable society. We
have tried to study the disaster management frameworks, plans and policies of 10 countries including India to understand the institutional mechanisms and integration of critical aspects of dual/multi disaster scenarios. When the traditional disasters hit the community following the COVID-19 pandemic, the need arises to have an integrated model that can assisting in the preparation and response to the dual situation simultaneously. Efforts are made to put the experiences into a framework for an integrated approach preparing for dual/multi-disaster scenarios.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10321/4168
ISSN: 0974-262X
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