Disaster Management | Department of Sociology, Social Work & African Women Studies

Disaster management is a science concerned with the systematic process of using administrative decisions, organization, operational skills and capacities to implement policies, strategies and coping capacities of the society and communities to lessen vulnerability to hazards and related disasters. A key component of disaster management is Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), which is a systematic approach to identifying, assessing and reducing the risks of disaster. DRR aims to reduce socio-economic vulnerabilities to disaster as well as dealing with the environmental and other hazards that trigger them.

Careers

Those trained in this area would find work in policy formulation as well as in functional work in organizations involved in disaster preparedness, mitigation, response and rehabilitation work. Specifically, those rained in disaster management can work in any Humanitarian Organization, Organizations working with communities to reduce disaster risks and as planners in the area of disaster recovery.