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Disaster risk management cycle diagram

The Disaster risk management cycle diagram (DRMC) highlights the range of initiatives which normally occur during both the Emergency response and Recovery stages of a disaster. Some of these cut across both stages (such things as Coordination and the Provision of ongoing assistance), whilst other activities are unique to each stage (eg Early Warning & Evacuation during Emergency Response; and Reconstruction and Economic & Social Recovery as part of Recovery).

The DRMC also highlights the role of the media, where there is a strong relationship between this and funding opportunities.

This diagram works best for relatively sudden-onset disasters, such as floods, earthquakes, bushfires, tsunamis, cyclones etc, but is less reflective of slow-onset disasters, such as drought, where there is no obviously recognizable single event which triggers the movement into the Emergency Response stage.

Whilst some development practitioners have moved away from using a diagrammatic representation of the Disaster Risk Management Cycle (DRMC), and particularly the earlier model which was more of a circle, other practitioners have argued that a clear visual model is the optimum way of highlighting the various activities and outputs which relate to a major hazard, or potential disaster, as it unfolds.

 

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