Disaster and Risk Management Guides
To ensure successful technical application to disaster management, space-based information has to be seamlessly integrated into established policies, plans, operational procedures and infrastructure. Overview information on these organizational issues is helpful to support this process.
This section provides this overview by offering a summary of characteristics, impacts/damages, emergency action, mitigation, and further measures for the different types of disasters. Furthermore links to existing disaster management guides from different institutions have been compiled.
The information currently provided is by no means complete, and any user of this website is invited to contribute content and/or to provide feedback. Please use the contact form on this page to contact the editing team.
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Drought In general, drought is defined as an extended period - a season, a year, or several years - of deficient rainfall relative to the statistical multi-year...
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Earthquake When there is a shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth caused by underground movement along a fault plane or by volcanic activity, then it is...
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*Epidemic** * Epidemic considered as a disaster because it is obviously affected people. Based on data and statistics from 1980-2008 the number of people killed was 183...
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Extreme Temperature Changes in temperature extremes tend to follow mean temperature changes in many parts of the world. IPCC indicate that cold extreme cold extremes...
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Flood A simple definition of flooding is water where it is not wanted. Another, more comprehensive definition of a flood is: A general and temporary condition of...
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Mass Movements Mass movements are massive failures of slope masses including rock, debris, soils and snow/ice (Parkash, National Institute of Disaster Management,...
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Tsunami “Tsunami” is a Japanese word in which “tsu” means harbor and “nami” means wave. Thus the word means “harbor wave”....
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Volcano Volcano is a mountain opening downwards to the reservoir of molten rock towards the surface of earth. Volcanoes are made by the accrual of igneous products...
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.. What is a wildfire? A wildfire is an unplanned, unwanted wildland fire including unauthorized human-caused fires1. Vegetation fires are caused by slash and burn land...