Disaster Management 02
Disaster Management 02 : "Disaster management is the process of forming common objectives and common values in order to encourage participants to plan for and deal with potential and actual disasters". (Pearce, 2000, Chapter 2, 11) "A process that assists communities to respond, both pre- and post-disaster, in such a way as to save lives, to preserve property; and to maintain the ecological, economic, and political stability of the impacted region". (Pearce 2000, Chapter 5, p. 6)