Lecturer: Major Mior Rosli Bin Mior Mohd Jaafar, TUDM (Bersara) Msc HRD, LLB, DPA Tel:

019 3556540 Email: miorroslijaafar@gmail.com

Welcome to Introduction to Disaster Management

All communities are vulnerable to

disasters, both natural and man-made.

This is a University level course was

designed to increase knowledge of disaster management, with the aim of reducing this vulnerability and improving disaster responsiveness.

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Introduction to Disaster Management

This course is intended for people who require an

introductory-level understanding of the concepts underpinning, and practical processes involved in, the management of disasters.

You do not need any prior knowledge of the topic,

although your own personal experiences or those of other people in your community will be very valuable in your learning.

Course outcomes
Upon completion of Introduction to Disaster Management

you will be able to:

Define and describe disaster management, hazard,

emergency, disaster, vulnerability, and risk;

Identify and describe the types of natural and non-natural

disasters and the implications of disasters on your region and environment;

List and describe the main hazards to which your region is,

or may be, vulnerable;

Define the various phases of the disaster management

cycle;

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Explain the importance of disaster mitigation and disaster

preparedness;
Describe how disaster management can be integrated into

public policy and how planning and design of infrastructure should take into account the vulnerability of communities;
Develop and write an emergency operations plan (EOP); State and explain the importance of the Community-Based

Approach to education and public awareness;

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Describe how a community-based action plan for

disaster management can be actively implemented;

Describe how and why training personnel to acquire

skills and knowledge are essential in mitigating the impact of disasters;

Recognise the contribution and participation of

volunteer agencies;
Define the contents of a school-based programme on

disaster management;

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Define and explain how culture contributes to peoples

response to education and public awareness programmes;

Compare the importance of indigenous knowledge in

education and public awareness on disaster management;

Define Emergency Management Systems (EMS); Identity how the EMS assists in hazardous material

management, emergency medical services, and response and recovery operations;

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Explain how Global Information Systems (GIS) Global

Positioning Systems (GPS) technology are utilised within all phases of the disaster management cycle;
State the advantages and disadvantages of using Remote

Sensing Systems (RSS) in disaster management;

Explain the role of the media in disaster management; State the advantages and disadvantages of using Remote

Sensing Systems (RSS) in disaster management;

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medicine;

Identify the components involved in emergency

Describe a suitable infrastructure and procedures in

accessing emergency medicine services;

Identify the main communicable diseases common in

disaster situations; the risk factors that increase the likelihood of an outbreak and ways of preventing/minimising such outbreaks;
Explain the importance of water sources and the

minimum standards for water quality and quantity;

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Describe processes to monitor and evaluate vector

control measures and environmental health programmes in emergency situations;

State the impacts of a disaster on society; Develop contingency plans to minimise food

distribution problems in the post-disaster period;

Assess the impacts of disaster on peoples income,

earning capacity and overall social welfare;

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Identify the stages of disaster recovery and associated

problems;
Identify and list the most vulnerable groups in disaster

and post-disaster times;

Describe briefly how we can reduce the effects of

disasters on vulnerable groups.

Study skills
As an adult learner your approach to learning will be

different to that from your school days: you will choose what you want to study, you will have professional and/or personal motivation for doing so and you will most likely be fitting your study activities around other professional or domestic responsibilities.

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Essentially you will be taking control of your learning

environment. As a consequence, you will need to consider performance issues related to time management, goal setting, stress management, etc. Perhaps you will also need to reacquaint yourself in areas such as essay planning, coping with exams and using the web as a learning resource.

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Your most significant considerations will be time and

space i.e. the time you dedicate to your learning and the environment in which you engage in that learning.

Assignments

There are seven short assignments set for modules 2-7

and module 9 of this course. You will need to spend about two hours on each of these assignments.

Self-Assessments

There is a self-assessment exercise for each of the 14

modules in this course which you can use to make sure that you have understood the key concepts in this course. You should spend about one hour on each selfassessment exercise.

Resources

In learning more on this subject, I shall provide you

with a list of additional resources at the end of each module; these may be books, articles or web sites.