Emergency management (or disaster management) is the discipline of dealing with and avoiding risks. It is a discipline that involves preparing for disaster before it occurs, disaster response (e.g., emergency evacuation, quarantine, mass decontamination, etc.), and supporting, and rebuilding society after natural or human-made disasters have occurred. In general, any Emergency management is the continuous process by which all individuals, groups, and communities manage hazards in an effort to avoid or ameliorate the impact of disasters resulting from the hazards. Actions taken depend in part on perceptions of risk of those exposed. Effective emergency management relies on thorough integration of emergency plans at all levels of government and non-government involvement. Activities at each level
Emergency Management is one of a number of terms which, since the end of the Cold War, have largely replaced Civil defense, whose original focus was protecting civilians from military attack. The thinking today focuses on a more general intent to protect the civilian population in times of peace as well as in times of calamity.
What do think are we well prepared for the disasters to come now or in future and what we do? should we be faced by a situation like what happened in Haiti or in Chile? When they were struck by the earth-quakes? Are our governments prepared with the trained personnel and resources should such a disaster occur? And how stable are our new building that are mushroom everywhere everyday?
