We must urgently need to shift our focus from rescue and relief operations to long-term risk management to handle the disaster management effectively. Explain (200 Words)
Refer - Business Standard
Enrich the answer from other sources, if the question demands.
IAS Parliament 5 years
KEY POINTS
Rainfall variability has caused floods and water shortages across the country, including in the most unlikely of locations.
A report by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts such changes are irreversible, and will continue to result in extreme weather conditions.
Understanding nature’s wrath
· We have moved from living with nature, the way the homes of our grandparents reflected, to a far more affluent and arrogant lifestyle where we love to dare nature by constructing on the most hazard-prone lands, including hillslopes, riverbeds, lakebeds and seafronts.
· Whatever buffers we had in the form of natural vegetation that held slopes together and kept inundation in check, have also been lost to the new development pattern. While we revel in our successes on such development, nature does finally strike to reclaim these lands.
· Furthermore, we continue to use 19th century models to respond to 21st century disasters. These methods follow an archaic system, where disasters are expected to follow a “season” and hit only in known geographies.
· Water released in dams, for example, is based on a manual system of measurement and prediction. Planning of our cities may be getting smarter from a technological point of view, but the fundamentals remain rooted in a narrow view of the economy, instead of expanding into an ecosystem-based perspective.
Better response to future
· Advanced prediction of heat waves using advanced super computers like Mihir
· Those living in vulnerable areas need the ability to assess their local risks better, and get access to accurate and easy to understand early warning.
· Notable disaster risk reduction efforts today are helping village communities in Bihar monitor their rivers and translate warning data into local actionable information;
· Enabling tribal families in North Kerala figure out nature-based solutions to secure themselves against landslides;
· Teaching school children in Uttarakhand how to assess and address risks within their school environments; and helping children in Sikkim operate a weather station and climate-lab within their school.
· Long-term resilience in response to the new risks identified was missing from fundamental approach to disaster recovery. The job of the humanitarian world should be to provide resources and begin reconstruction in affected areas from day one, that is, to help faster recovery for affected families and build better and safer communities.
Chinna 5 years
Kindly review...thank you
IAS Parliament 5 years
Good attempt. Keep Writing.
nalini 5 years
Kindly review...thank you...
IAS Parliament 5 years
Good attempt. Try to stick to word limit and include case study if possible. Keep Writing.
nalini 5 years
IAS Parliament 5 years
You can discuss about Cyclone Phialin 2013, where effective preparedness by Government saved people from disaster while comparing with super cyclone 1999 in Odisha.
nalini 5 years
