Disaster Management: Crisis, Hazard, Vulnerability, Risk and the Management Cycle

A lesson defining crisis, emergency, emergency preparedness, hazard, vulnerability, capacity and risk, and putting them together as hazard times vulnerability over capacity equals disaster risk. It runs through risk assessment, management and reduction, the characteristics and phases of a disaster, the difference between an emergency and a disaster, the cycle of mitigation, preparedness, response, relief, recovery, rehabilitation, reconstruction and development, and the management of mass accidents with the roles of the responding agencies from the emergency number and police to the ambulance service, NGOs, emergency room and hospital.