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Disaster Management

Environment management is a critical strategy to prevent disasters, and reduce risks/vulnerabilities of disaster prone countries and communities. Disaster risks and vulnerability can be considerably reduced through effective and long-term environmental and natural resource management practices. Linkages between significant environmental changes and frequency/magnitude of natural disasters should be closely monitored, mapped and communicated to vulnerable communities and disaster management teams at the local and national levels.

Keeping the entire disaster cycle in mind (Prevention, Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery/Rehabilitation), IETC's programmes and projects under the disaster management pillar will focus on disaster prevention. The goal of IETC's disaster pillar is to strengthen the cyclical interrelationships between sound environmental management and disasters preparedness, by implementing pilot projects and demonstrations of strategies.

Its objectives are

1. to identify the causes and effects of disaster with specific reference to the environment;
2. to develop environment management strategies that will help reduce the vulnerability of high-risk communities to disasters;
3. to mainstream environmental management practices for disaster mitigation within the overall perspective of poverty alleviation, and
4. to implement pilot projects and demonstrations of effective strategies in developing countries.

Within this overall perspective, one of the key themes that IETC will focus on is disaster debris and waste management strategies. Using the experience and lessons learnt during the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and other recent disasters, IETC will implement projects to develop environmental management and waste handling strategies that, during a disaster event, can also handle disaster debris and waste.

Technologies and methodologies to handle large amounts of different kinds of wastes (including hazardous wastes) in an environmentally sound manner, is a critical part of the response strategy that local governments need to have in place for disasters. Such strategies can include, for example, incorporating disaster wastes into the scenario for waste planning at national and local level, maintaining close links with disaster management agencies, and ensuring that waste management is incorporated into emergency plans, nominating 'stand-by' waste personnel and equipment, or ensuring training and practice in disaster waste management as a part of the usual emergency management procedures.

	Projects   Publications   News

• Major Projects
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• DEBRI Project
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• Iraqi Marshlands Project
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• IETC's Tools
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• ESTIS facilitates creation and management of websites on the Internet, sharing and searching of information across multiple ESTIS websites, publishing of information by non-web designers and decentralized management of content.
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• WiseWater is a spreadsheet application for projecting reductions in Water Consumption Patterns after application of Environmentally Sound Technologies. It is included as part of the publication "Every Drop Counts: Environmentally Sound Technologies for Urban and Domestic Water Use Efficiency".
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• PAMOLARE is an environmental modelling tool to forecast the changes in water quality leading to the eutrophication of Lakes and Reservoirs.
  The versatility of PAMOLARE allows for its use in decision making process as well as for training purposes.
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