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

Original Article

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

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

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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Copyright

© 2020 Sowmya & Nagaraj. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Published By Bangalore University, Bengaluru, Karnataka

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