Tuesday 17 September 2013

Human/Man-Made Disasters



Human or Man-Made Disasters.
     Human or man made disasters are caused by identifiers that are attributed to man. They are situations where communities suffer through loss of life; property, services and inability to self sustain
them selves like in conflict, and legislation that affect their lives adversely.

With this we move to the second type of disasters.
Speed of onset.
                    The first is slow onset where adverse event are slow to develop, the event or situation develops and then evolves into an emergency and then a disaster. Case in point, Syria.
                    Secondly we have sudden onset. This situation has no warming or very little. This obviously means no time to prepare or very little. The example is in volcanic activity, tsunami etc.

Naturally being prepared helps in mitigating the effects of disasters and understanding the hazards of your region is powerful in mitigation and remedial action planning and execution. This involves knowing implications of disasters to your region. It could be loss of life, power disruption, disruption of living, etc.
I apologize for the delay and short posts, things will normalize soon.


Benson Mutahi
Disaster Management Enthusiast

Situations we are watching

No comments:

Post a Comment