Disaster Risk Reduction Plan for Industrial Area Case Study of Ankleshwar
Amita Panchal
Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Parul University
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Abstract - Natural disasters are one of those the most known threats enduring development. As, estimated over the last 20 years, it is observed that natural disasters have affected around 4.4 billion people, taken 1.3 million lives, and even caused economic losses of 2 trillion USD (UNISDR 2012). Also, in coming years, gauge, frequency, and acuteness of natural disasters are likely to grow at an accelerated rate. Research indicates that global environmental change and demographic change are two important drivers of future disaster risk (Foresight 2012).
Disaster risk management is an organized application of management policies, procedures, and practices for identifying, analysing, evaluating, treating, and monitoring disasters and risks. Disaster risk reduction requires some practical techniques to control and limit the risk of catastrophe caused and losses by addressing hazards and people and area’s vulnerability to the risk. Typically, disaster risk management is the well-planned application of disaster risk reduction policies and strategies to minimize risks due to new disasters, trim down risks of existing disasters and manage enduring risk by strengthening the elasticity and reduction of disaster losses.
Key Words: Disaster, management, environmental, demographic, catastrophe, reduction
1.INTRODUCTION
Disaster is the obstruction or impediment that occurs for a short or long-time period. It causes widespread economic, and environmental troubles and exceeds a maximum limit that people cannot cope with using their resources and might lead to loss of lives. When some disasters hit any developing country, its long-term development plan mainly gets affected by natural disasters such as floods, landslides, etc., or industrial disasters like poisons, gas leaks, industrial fire, and many more to count. Directly or indirectly, any sort of disasters affects the lives of many people.
Developing nations go through most of the loss when disasters hit any of its areas. Precisely, approx. 95% of loss of human life caused due to disasters and natural hazards in developing countries are almost twenty times more than in developed countries as compared in GDP percentage. It does not matter in what community disasters occur, life of people affected by disasters gets changed either in minor
