Sentence examples for proactive disaster management from inspiring English sources

We propose an integrated proactive disaster management framework for Brunei which if adopted could boost the country's capabilities in dealing with complex phenomena associated with hazards, risks, and vulnerability (Fig. 4).

This article assesses the disaster risk facing the hazard-prone Southeast Asian country of Cambodia and discusses its fiscal preparedness and need for proactive disaster risk management.

Fiji is gratified that the global community is recognising the need for a more proactive approach to disaster management, included pre-committed finance to bolster our capacity to respond to individual events such as Winston.

Government interventions are more reactive than proactive although its strategy to disaster management indicates both disaster preparedness and emergency intervention and rehabilitation.

Both CCA and DRR aim: (1) to manage hydrometeorological hazards through vulnerability and exposure reduction, resilience increase, and risk transfer and sharing (IPCC 2012); (2) to reduce the impacts of climate-related disasters and associated risks; and (3) to promote proactive, holistic, and long-term approaches to disaster management (Thomalla et al. 2006).

According to Mojtahedi and Oo (2016), in a disaster management system, stakeholder attributes and the proactive and reactive approaches they employ constitute an important aspect for successful DRR.

The three world conferences in Yokohama 1994, Hyogo 2005, and recently in Sendai 2015 have played a crucial role in the evolution of disaster management from a reactive to a proactive approach.

As the disaster management paradigm has evolved from a traditional approach that focuses on managing an emergency to a more proactive approach that emphasizes the reduction of disaster risk and building resilience, we argue that it is these abilities that help local government leaders get the tasks of disaster risk reduction and resilience building done effectively.

"The U.S. is excellent at disaster management," but "working to avoid disaster is completely different from working after a disaster".

The countries' disaster management agencies have no direct communication.

But disaster management officials fear its impact will be massive.