A REVIEW ON DIFFERENT LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF SOUTH INDIAN STATES

R Sowmya; H Nagaraj

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DOI: 10.53989/bu.ge.v9i2.4

Year: 2020, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 20-25

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A REVIEW ON DIFFERENT LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF SOUTH INDIAN STATES

R Sowmya¹, H Nagaraj²

¹UGC Senior Research Fellow, DOS in Geography, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysuru, 570006, Karnataka, India
²Professor, DOS in Geography, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysuru, 570006, Karnataka, India

Received Date:22 July 2020, Accepted Date:16 October 2020

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

Disaster management is a systematic response to a disaster. The main approach of the management is assessing disaster risk and taking preventive measures has also become a part of disaster management. In present day’s disaster management has been an important to frequent natural disaster ranging from earthquake, floods, droughts and other disaster management worth wile to be considered. The major types of disaster such as geological, water and climate, biological, nuclear, and industrial disasters etc…

Keywords: Vulnerable; Droughts; Disaster Management; Chemical; Biological; Radiological

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