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2. The four phases of disaster management are:

(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
mitigation, money, personnel, droughts, floods, human, material,
preparedness, commitment, earthquakes, storm environment, land
response, recovery recovery

(a) Option (i) (b) Option (ii) (c) Option (iii) (d) Option (iv)

3. What does the disaster management model aid in?
(a) framing of disaster preparedness (b) economic recovery

(c) business recovery (d) all of these
4. Evaluate what a government should do in the ‘preparedness’ phase of the disaster
management cycle.
(a) They must devote their time in building destroyed houses.

(b) They must improve disaster response operations.
(c) They must immediately evacuate people from the afflicted areas.

(d) They must eliminate the likelihood of disasters occurring.
5. What is disaster management?
(a) practise of safeguarding and saving lives and property

(b) planting more trees
(c) constructing large buildings

(d) teaching children about past disasters
6. What can mitigation activities minimise?
(a) disaster-related laws (b) consequences of disasters

(c) likelihood of disasters recurring (d) communication systems
7. According to the passage, which of the following is an example of mitigation step?

(a) counselling services (b) zoning and land use management
(c) reconstruction (d) assisting refugees with transportation

8. According to the passage, which of the following are included in preparedness
programmes?

(a) emergency plans, drills, and training (b) building codes
(c) temporary housing (d) zoning and land use management

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