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10.4 Response
Disaster response consists of numerous elements such as search and rescue, warning/
evacuation, assessing damage, continuing assistance, providing immediate assistance as well as the immediate restoration.
The purpose of the emergency response is to give immediate help to maintain
life, recover health and sustain the confidence of the affected people that include:
• Containing the emergency
• Facilitating and promoting self-help in affected communities
• Facilitating inquiries, investigations and recovery of the community
• Protecting and saving human life
• Protecting property as far as reasonably practicable
• Providing the businesses and public with advice, warnings and information
• Relieving suffering
• Restoring/critical activities, normal services
• Safeguarding maintaining the environment
Such assistance ranges from giving specific but limited help like assisting refugees with temporary shelter, transport, food, establishing semi-permanent settlements and repairs to damaged infrastructure.
10.5 Recovery
Recovery after emergency/disaster depends on the type and magnitude of emergency/disaster in many ways:
• Aftershocks may disturb operations.
• Collapsing buildings may kill many people.
• Create large quantity of rubble, which required to be cleared before
reconstruction.
• Destruction of infrastructure (Fig. 10.4) makes communication and access
difficult.
• High levels of fractures as well as crush injuries.
• The effects are concentrated, compared to other natural disasters.
Agencies need to concentrate on the recovery phase as gap between relief and
recovery do not exist. The difference between relief and recovery in the field is more
difficult.
Affected populations after the 2005 Pakistan earthquake and the 2004 Indian
Ocean tsunami have showed more dissatisfaction with respect to recovery efforts
compared to relief efforts. Observation by the Fritz Institute (2005) after the tsunami revealed that livelihood restoration programmes did not get elevated satisfaction scores. As per Bliss and Larsen (2006), 80% of the households identified that
10.5 Recovery
10.4 Response
Disaster response consists of numerous elements such as search and rescue, warning/
evacuation, assessing damage, continuing assistance, providing immediate assistance as well as the immediate restoration.
The purpose of the emergency response is to give immediate help to maintain
life, recover health and sustain the confidence of the affected people that include:
• Containing the emergency
• Facilitating and promoting self-help in affected communities
• Facilitating inquiries, investigations and recovery of the community
• Protecting and saving human life
• Protecting property as far as reasonably practicable
• Providing the businesses and public with advice, warnings and information
• Relieving suffering
• Restoring/critical activities, normal services
• Safeguarding maintaining the environment
Such assistance ranges from giving specific but limited help like assisting refugees with temporary shelter, transport, food, establishing semi-permanent settlements and repairs to damaged infrastructure.
10.5 Recovery
Recovery after emergency/disaster depends on the type and magnitude of emergency/disaster in many ways:
• Aftershocks may disturb operations.
• Collapsing buildings may kill many people.
• Create large quantity of rubble, which required to be cleared before
reconstruction.
• Destruction of infrastructure (Fig. 10.4) makes communication and access
difficult.
• High levels of fractures as well as crush injuries.
• The effects are concentrated, compared to other natural disasters.
Agencies need to concentrate on the recovery phase as gap between relief and
recovery do not exist. The difference between relief and recovery in the field is more
difficult.
Affected populations after the 2005 Pakistan earthquake and the 2004 Indian
Ocean tsunami have showed more dissatisfaction with respect to recovery efforts
compared to relief efforts. Observation by the Fritz Institute (2005) after the tsunami revealed that livelihood restoration programmes did not get elevated satisfaction scores. As per Bliss and Larsen (2006), 80% of the households identified that
10.5 Recovery