Disaster Management and Sustainable Development

Abstract

Communities will always face natural hazards, but today’s disasters are often generated by, human activities. There frequency also increased. At the most dramatic level, human activities are changing the natural balance of the earth, interfering as never before with the atmosphere, the oceans, the polar ice caps, the forest cover and the natural pillars that make our world a livable home. There is a close correlation between increased demographic pressure, especially in developing countries growing environmental degradation, increased human vulnerability and the intensity of the impact of disasters. The escalation of severe disaster events triggered by natural hazards and related technological and environmental disasters is increasingly threatening sustainable development. But the only way is to mitigate the effect of disasters to concentrate on the importance of Sustainable Development.

Disaster  Management is a strategic planning and procedure that is administered and employed to protect critical infrastructures from severe damages when natural or human made calamities and catastrophic even occur. Disaster management is linked with sustainable development, particularly in relation to vulnerable people such as those with disabilities, elderly people, children and other marginalized groups. As Sustainable Development is the urgent need to reduce the risk of disasters. Sustainable Development has been defined as balancing the fulfillment of human needs with the protection of the environment. And protection and conserve environment is helpful to disaster management. This paper examines the effectiveness of sustainable development to reduce the risk of disasters and hazard prevention. And also promote community-based disaster management planning by local Authorities, including through training activities and raising public awareness