Here is your short paragraph on vulnerability! Hazards and disasters are unevenly distributed with respect to time and space. The terms like ‘earthquake prone’, ‘drought prone’ or ‘flood prone’ areas are used to describe the distributional effect of the concerned hazards. People living in such areas are vulnerable to hazards and disasters of varied types. Thus vulnerability is the extent [...]
Here is your short paragraph on damages done by natural hazards and disasters in India! Because of its sub-continental dimensions, geographical situation and behaviour of the monsoon, India is exposed to various natural hazards and disasters like drought, flood, cyclone, earthquake, etc. year after year. While all the States and Union Territories in the country are likely to face one [...]
Here is your short paragraph on disaster! Extreme form of hazard leads to disaster. Disaster (French des meaning ‘bad’ and aster meaning ‘star’) is a manmade or natural event which results in widespread loss of life and property. Thus disaster is defined as “A serious disruption of the functioning of a society, causing widespread human, material or environmental losses which [...]