Faculty: Jaya Krishna Krishna Behera

Course Name : Disaster Management

Code(Credit) : under basket II

Course Objectives

• To provide students an exposure to disasters, their significance, types & Comprehensive understanding on the concurrence of Disasters and its management.
• To ensure that students begin to understand the relationship between vulnerability, disasters, disaster prevention, risk reduction and the basic understanding of the research methodology for risk reduction measures.
• Equipped with knowledge, concepts, and principles, skills pertaining to Planning, Organizing, Decision-making and Problem solving methods for Disaster Management.
• Structural and nonstructural elements of risk reduction and climate change adaptation.

Learning Outcomes

• Students having acquired on the basic knowledge and information on DRR and CC are well prepared to respond to such hazards.
• Students disseminate the acquired knowledge, skills and techniques with the people living in and around them.
• Better safeguard their lives structural and nonstructural elements at risk in pre, during and post disasters situation with the knowledge acquired.

Course Syllabus

Introduction to Disaster Management

India vulnerable to multiple natural hazards

Concepts and Definitions

Hazard, Risk, Vulnerability, Capacity, Disaster & Equations of Disaster Management

Factors responsible for disasters like flood, cyclone and Earthquake

Causes of disasters

Types & Classification of Disasters

Hydrological and Meterological related disasters, Geological related disaster, accident related disaster, Biological related disaster

Global warming and  Climate Change

Causes, effect, consequences and how to say no to global warming.

Disaster Verses Development

Phases of Development

Disaster Risk Reduction and Planning Management

Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR)

CMDRR and its process of achieving it

Hazard, Vulnerability, Capacity mapping and tools used for mapping

Community Contingency Plan

Rapid Need Assessment and its importance

Role and responsibilities of various stakeholders, PRI, Task Force, ODRAF, NDRF, SDMA, NDMA

Disaster Management Cycle

Phases of Disasters

Prevention, Mitigation Preparedness, Warning, Response, Rehabilitation, Reconstructio

Stress Management

First Aid  - support to life

Water Sanitation and Hygiene

Minimum Standard

Health in Emergency

Fire safety and risk reduction measures

Introduction on fire safety and Chemistry and Physics of Fire

The three elements of a fire are

Types Of Fires & Importance Of Fire Safety

Types Of Fire Extinguishers & Fire Extinguisher Components

Development vs Sustainable Development

Disaster Resilient Development

Climate Change and Development

Sustainable Development Goal

Urban Disasters and its permanent measures

Role of Social Capital for DRR

Session Plan

Session 1

Session 2

Case Studies

Case Studies