disaster management
Emergency response coordination
Disaster management is the organization and coordination of responses to catastrophic events—natural or human-caused.
It encompasses preparation, response, recovery, and mitigation: The city improved its disaster management after the hurricane.
The field draws on emergency services, public health, logistics, and government coordination to minimize harm and restore normalcy.
- ground zeroExplosion's central impact point
- search and rescueFinding and saving people
- flood barriersStructures preventing water overflow
- storm surgeWind-driven coastal flooding
- emergency shelterTemporary housing during disasters
safe zone · contingency plans · risk assessment · community education · training drills · psychological support · damage assessment · mutual aid · emergency planning · legal aid services · medical triage · first aid · debris removal · early warning systems · urban planning · firefighting · first responders · relief workers
- public safetypolice, 911, ambulance, fire department, firefighters
- disaster reliefrelief efforts, relief supplies, relief organizations, emergency services, rescue operations
- civil defenseair raid shelters, civil defense, fallout shelters, air raid sirens, bomb shelters
- Emergency Servicesambulance, firefighters, paramedics, police, first responders
- fire safetyfire alarms, fire drill, fire extinguishers, smoke detectors, fire drills
- Coast Guard trainingboot camp, seamanship, navigation skills, water survival, swim training
disaster managementinaction
Deliberate nonmovement
benign neglect · dereliction of duty · looking the other way · abandonment · negligence
disaster managementsabotage
Deliberate disruption of operations
arson · terrorism · reckless endangerment · making things worse · fanning the flames