Disaster Recovery Management Introduction

11th APAN @ Xi’an China on27th August 2007

By Sagarika Wickramasekera

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Content

• What is Disaster Management

• Phenomenon of Natural Disaster in Asia Pacific Region

• Why we need Disaster Management

• Disaster Mitigation methods

• Application of Information Technology in Disaster Management

• Role Of Sahana in Disaster Management

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What is Disaster Management

• Discipline dealing with and avoiding risks • Involves preparing, supporting, and

rebuilding society when natural or man made disasters occur

• Continuous process by which all individuals, groups, and communities manage hazards in an effort to avoid or ameliorate the impact of disasters resulting from the hazards

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Why We Need Disaster Management

• For Early Warning

• To foreseeing future disasters

• To Take prevention methods on reliable information

• To prohibit Natural disaster occurrence sources.

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Phenomenon of Natural Disasters

• Many Developing and Developed countries of Asia Pacific Region are situated in the hazard belts if the world and are subject to – Floods– Landslides– Earthquakes– Cyclones– Droughts– Volcanic eruptions – Tsunami– Epdemics

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Occurrence of Disasters

• Cyclones– Philippines – 38 % of world total – 30 per year– Bangladesh– Vietnam– Fiji– Tonga– Solomon Islands– Samova

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Occurrence of Disasters Contd.

Floods – – India

• Annual floods inundate 40 million hectares

– Bangladesh • One of the most flood prone countries in the region

– Sri Lanka • Seasonal floods

– China• Annual summer floods

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Occurrence of Disasters Contd.

• Droughts– Afghanistan – Iran– Myanmar– Pakistan – India– Sri Lanka– Nepal

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Occurrence of Disasters

contd.• Earthquakes

– 70% of the earthquakes are reported from this zone• Japan – Once in every 10 years• China- 28th July 1976 caused 240,000 deaths• Philippines- Average 5 earthquakes per day• India – Pacific ocean seismic zone or Indian ocean

seismic Zone.• Nepal, • Afghanistan, • Iran • Pacific Islands

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• Tsunami– 1883 disastrous Krakatowa volcanic eruption caused

36,000 deaths – 17th August 1976, Moro gulf in Philippines caused

8000 deaths (ESCAP,1995)– 26th December, 2004 more than 2 million deaths– Japan, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Maldives, Sri

Lanka , Thailand etc.. are the some of the badly affected countries in the Asia pacific Region

Occurrence of Disasterscontd.

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Disaster Mitigation Methods

• Education

• Training

• Development of expertise

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Applications of Information Technology in Disaster

Management

• GIS

• Remote Sensing

• Early Warning Systems

• Internet (Victims and missing persons tracking through the internet)

• National data bases

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Role of ‘Sahana’ in

Disaster Management