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(2) Mitigation activities minimise or eliminate the likelihood of disasters occurring, as well as
the consequences of unavoidable disasters. Building codes, risk analyses amendments,
zoning and land use management, building use laws and protection codes, preventive
health care, and public education are all examples of mitigation steps.
(3) Governments, organisations, and individuals create strategies to save lives, mitigate disaster
damage, and improve disaster response operations during the preparedness process.
Preparedness programmes include emergency plans, drills, and training, as well as alert
systems, emergency communications systems, evacuation plans, training, etc.
(4) The goal of emergency response is to provide urgent assistance in order to improve
their health, keep people alive, and boost their morale. Providing unique but minimal
assistance, such as assisting refugees with transportation, temporary housing, and food,
to establishing semi-permanent settlement in camps and other places, are examples
of such assistance.
(5) Recovery efforts continue until all systems have returned to normal or have improved.
Returning critical life-support facilities to minimum operating levels, temporary
accommodation, public information, health and safety education, reconstruction,
counselling services, and economic impact studies are among the short and long-
term recovery steps.

Disaster

Disaster
Disaster
Management
Management
Cycle
Cycle
Preparation Response
After Event
Before Event
Recovery
Mitigation

Figure: Disaster Management Cycle

On the basis of your understanding of the passage, answer the following questions.

1. What can you infer from the term ‘disaster’?
(a) practice of safeguarding and saving lives
(b) unanticipated, cataclysmic event

(c) eco-friendly environment
(d) personal development
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