Disasters Management: Planning, Response and Recovery

This book, in its five chapters, discusses multiple important topics regarding disasters and crises management. It discusses how to deal with them in preparing, planning, and responding to the needs arising from them as well as the recovery method and surpassing their destructive effects. The book includes basic topics in this field including disaster classification and analyzing and managing related risks. It also includes extensive information on planning and response mechanisms for the various entities and operating institutions, and on applying and activating the pre-made plans. It explains the meaning of Temporal Disaster Curve and includes a general look on the post disaster stage and how to deal with it. The book also mentions the effects of every disaster, which is for the purpose of proposing the procedures and plans necessary to recover from and overcome them. The book includes in its final chapter a group of examples of Arab and international natural disasters that happened in the last years and analyzes and discusses them. The purpose of this is to give the reader a clearer idea, which is supported with numbers and pictures of these disasters. This shows the lessons that we have learned and leaves us prepared for what might happen in the future in similar incidents.