Disaster Management: Managing The Risk Of Environmentalcalamity

Abstract

country in the world to suffer very often from various natural disasters, namely drought, flood, cyclone, earth... 

quake, landslide, forest fire, hail storm, locust, volcanic eruption, etc. Which strike causing a devastatingimpact on human life, economy and environment? Various disasters like earthquake, landslides, volcanicKeywords: …. 

eruptions, fires, flood and cyclones are natural hazards that kill thousands of people and destroy billions of dollars of habitat and property each year. The rapid growth of the world's population and its increasedconcentration often in hazardous environment has escalated both the frequency and severity of natural disasters. With the tropical climate and unstable land forms, coupled with deforestation, unplanned growthproliferation non-engineered constructions which make the disaster-prone areas mere vulnerable, tardycommunication, poor or no budgetary allocation for disaster prevention, developing countries suffer more or less chronically by natural disasters. Asia tops the list of casualties due to natural disaster. Among variousnatural hazards, earthquakes, landslides, floods and cyclones are the major disasters adversely affectingverylarge areas and population in the Indian sub-continent. The perception about disaster and its management hasundergone a change following the enactment of the Disaster Management Act, 2005.