Risk and Crisis Management

**3**

**Chapter 1**

**Abstract**

through the fictional tale of Tucci1

remember. Well, almost anyone…

*of work. Tomorrow will be the disaster."*

disaster training

**1. Introduction**

*Sunday:*

*I learned in kindergarten). JB*

Disaster Management:

A State-of-the-Art Review

*Jared Bly, Louis Hugo Francescutti and Danielle Weiss*

Disaster management involves the pillars of emergency management: planning

, a coastal city in the worst flood anyone can

and preparation, mitigation, response, and recovery. Emergencies are serious events that threaten health, life, and property and can be managed within the capabilities of the affected organization. Disasters, on the other hand, are hypercomplex emergencies, requiring resources not immediately available. Disaster management follows the principles of emergency management, and emphasizes flexibility, collaboration, and teamwork. Lack of resources will challenge people and organizations both in effects of disasters and the ability to manage them. Poverty, climate change, governance, and education are foundations to improve capacity. Hospitals play an important role in disaster response and can prepare accordingly. Plans, to be effective, must be implemented through appropriatelytargeted exercises. Building on an all-hazards approach, to more hazard-specific considerations can improve disaster preparedness as well as day-to-day efficiency. Disaster management is complex and crucial. These principles are explored

**Keywords:** natural disasters, emergency management, disaster management,

*"Well, this is a disaster" said Jojo, the 19 year old apprentice to his mentor, Raj. They were pulling in the fishing nets near the usually beautiful seaside village of Tucci, now dull and grey and partly under water. The nets were heavy with debris from the churning sea. Raj grunted a mirthless laugh. "No. This is just a hard day* 

<sup>1</sup> *I went with a fictional disaster to demonstrate the principles of disaster management for a number of reasons. 1. Any current disaster would soon be overshadowed by one more recent. 2. There are many people that would have a much greater understanding than me of any historical event. 3. Any real event risks being 'foreign' to people in other places. The story of Tucci belongs to no one, and so applies to anyone. I agree with Robert Fulghum who wrote*" *…myth is more potent than history" (The storyteller's creed in All I needed to know* 
