Tag: man made disaster

Recovery is an integral component of fire management and involves wildlife rescue, rehabilitation and restoration of areas damaged during fire suppression operations, restoration of park infrastructure or personal property damaged by fire and recovery of the local community when a fire has had an impact on the economic or social wellbeing of the community (e.g. effect on power or water supply, access, stock or income).

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN's global development network with its headquarters in New York City, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP works in five main areas: democratic governance, poverty reduction, crisis prevention and recovery, environment and energy, and HIV/AIDS.

Disaster risk reduction includes disciplines like disaster management, disaster mitigation and disaster preparedness, but DRR is also part of sustainable development. In order for development activities to be sustainable they must also reduce disaster risk. On the other hand, unsound development policies will increase disaster risk - and disaster losses. Thus, DRR involves every part of society, every part of government, and every part of the professional and private sector

Mitigation is also used to assess structural and non-structural measures undertaken to reduce possible damage at a level which does not harm people and property, according to codes or "accepted practice" based, among other issues, on a known probability of hazard.