Disaster Management

Disaster management is a process of effectively preparing for and responding to disasters. It involves strategically organizing resources to lessen the harm that disasters cause. It also involves a systematic approach to managing the responsibilities of disaster prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery.

Monitoring to keep up-to-date on how those risks and vulnerabilities change over time.

Response capability to reduce risk once trends are spotted and announced — this may be through pre-season mitigation activities, evacuation or duck-and-cover reflexes, depending on the lead-time of a warning.

Warning communication to package the monitoring information into actionable messages understood by those that need, and are prepared, to hear them.