MPA-018: Disaster Management
Assignment Answers (July 2024 – January 2025)
Below are the complete solved answers for all questions from the IGNOU MPA-018 assignment. Click on the question titles to read each detailed response:
- Define disaster and give an overview of natural disasters in India.
- Discuss the need of Community Based Disaster Management.
- Write a note on Emergency Operations Centre.
- ‘Risk sharing and transfer pave the way for building disaster resilience’. Examine.
- Highlight the various stages in a disaster management cycle.
- Explain the various rescue methods.
- Discuss the guiding principles for shelter provisions.
- Highlight the major trends in disaster management.
- Define the rationale of ‘First Response’ and discuss the role of people as First Responders.
- Analyse the relationship between disasters and development.
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