Environment and Security

Emergency Management and Recovery

As the number of natural disasters is increasing, it is crucial to have emergency management and recovery SOPs (Standard Operating procedures) to tackle such situations. Problems caused by environmental calamities can be mitigated with a proactive approach, in-action planning, and after-effects support can lead to saving the lives of a lot of people. Proper monitoring of the earth’s geography and climatic changes to tackle disasters like cyclones and earthquakes can help us in being prepared. For such situations, efficient protocols need to be formed along with proper dissemination of information.

Flood Risk Mapping and Management

Flood risk plans are the easiest way to lower the impact of such high-risk adversity. Maps help in projecting a clear picture of which areas are high, medium, or lightly prone. Hence, management can be done accordingly. From alleviation to risk-reduction to recovery from the damage, through flood risk mapping a fuller approach can be formed. Studies on the behavior of the oceans and rivers after climatic impacts and incoming rainfall along with extrapolation of earlier such incidents can help us in coming up with better ideas and innovation for the management of flood damage.

Natural Resources Damage Assessment

This assessment deals with the evaluation of all the aspects of restoration that need to be done after hazardous activities have happened near ecological areas, for example, oil spills in the ocean that can affect the marine habitat.
To recover from such situations is done in a three-step process:

• Assessment: The site at which the incident has happened is examined by scientists for the collection of data and samples for predicting its effects.
• Planning: How the effects will be minimized in an organized manner and   tools to be used for that purpose are laid down here.
• Restoration: The plan is put into action here.

Hazard Identification and Mapping

This is one of the most decisive aspects of forming policies that envelope emergency policy formation and other procedures relating to it. By formulating a detailed hazard profile and then mapping it for its impacts and after-effects provides a vivid picture to the researchers and policy builders for developing a more accurate and assertive strategy. Potential threats that get mapped can be categorized according to their risk intensity. Every now and then this map should be referred to for checking whether the resources that were allotted for such situations are being handled properly or not.

Disaster Mitigation Designing and Planning

According to the World Bank: “Mainstreaming disaster risk management into development planning can reverse the current trend of rising disaster impact. Furthermore, when countries rebuild stronger, faster, and more inclusively after disasters, they can reduce the impact on people’s livelihoods and well-being by as much as 31%, potentially cutting global average losses.” With the help of disaster mitigation designing and planning a proactive approach can be followed for such catastrophes. They help in developing frameworks and build cities that are more resilient to such accidents. Through the strengthening of warning systems and fabricating proficient preparedness with mitigation designing we can create a safer future.