In the awake of the recent natural disasters such as the earthquake, emergency and disaster planning has to be taken into consideration. The process involves coordinated and co-operative measures of preparedness that would be able to match the urgent needs using the available resources. The natural disasters are usually repeated events that have their root cause just like any other occurrence, thus the need for scientific preparedness or measures (Scheer,42).
Scientific tests provide a collaborative effort that establishes and sustain a natural disaster through scientific research which enables the emergency planners, the affected community and the responders to be well prepared. The prior knowledge or a glimpse look and understanding of what lies shortly provides the affected lot to come with the best response and time to devise a recovery plan towards the disaster(Laura,12)
The scientific measures provide insight to how to control the disaster misconception to some real average. The image of how people would react to a disaster is always that they will panic which will result in chaos. The fear drives people to a particular state where they no longer care about others. The particular interest personality is more projected at this point, and people tend to become more hostile while taking aggressive action towards others which is described as a “disaster syndrome” (Thomas,27).
According to the case study and the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, the relating point is that both took hide of the active catastrophic planning, preparedness and mitigation which kept them in the best position to anticipate and handle the disaster effectively (Loriane,34). Though there is no scientific measure on either of the case study disaster which would allow the affected community to learn how to manage the disaster syndrome.
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