Any incident which can cause damage to life, property and environment may be termed as disaster. The disaster may be natural as well as man-made. The disaster management is related to reduce the level of damage caused by disaster.
The natural disaster cannot be stopped by man. These disasters come in the form of flood, cyclone, earthquakes, volcano eruption, etc. though we can make efforts to reduce the harm because of natural calamity. The governments of common wealth nations emphasized on the four facts about the management related to disaster. These four measures are pre-preparation, action plan and reestablishment and control plan. The preplanned preparation includes the awareness of natural call and mental preparations to bear damage and rescue schemes. The community should step forward to face the damage. Action plan must be accomplished by the steps which should be taken before, same time and after the incident. The third and the most necessary measure is establishment of the victims of the incident as soon as possible. The efforts to save them, to cure them, to reside them mist be collective, effective and fast. The fourth step includes the control or check on natural calamity. Hundred percent checks on natural incidents are not possible. In this regard there is need to study the causes of natural actions seriously. Most of them are influenced little or more by human activities. For example, deforestation leads the flood in rivers. The loss of lives and property because of earthquake is directly related to the number of stories build up and type of construction. Thus to check on floods in rivers deforestation should be banned.
The disasters caused by human activities are not of less harm. These disasters are the outcomes of human carelessness, human evils, greediness or in other words the fall of human values. Being human, we should maintain the human face and high human values or the whole society.
Thus we can conclude that the disaster management is the call of the day to save our lives and sustainable economic, social and environmental growth.