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Dr. Khondoker Mokaddem HossainDirector, Institute of Disaster

Management and VulnerabilityStudies

University of DhakaEmail: [email protected]

01711383926

Concepts of Disaster Management:

Restoration and Recovery

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The definitional challenge

ISDR defines Recovery as

“ Decisions and actions taken after a disaster with a

view to restoring or improving the pre-disaster living conditions of the stricken community, while

encouraging and acilitating necessary adjustments

to reduce disaster risk.’’



Recovery

The development, coordination, and execution of

service- and site-restoration plans; the reconstitutionof government operations and services; individual,

private-sector, nongovernmental, and public-

assistance programs to provide housing and to

promote restoration; long-term care and treatment of

affected persons; additional measures for social,

political, environmental, and economic restoration;

evaluation of the incident to identify lessons learned; post incident reporting; and development of initiatives

to mitigate the effects of future incidents.

(http://www.fema.gov/nimscast/Glossary)

http://www.fema.gov/nimscast/Glossary










Cont…

Recovery is response Activities that address the short-

term, direct effects of an incident.

Response includes immediate actions to save lives,

protect property, and meet basic human needs.

Response also includes the execution of emergencyoperations plans and of mitigation activities designed

to limit the loss of life, personal injury, property

damage, and other unfavorable outcomes.

Recovery (rehabilitation and reconstruction) affords

an opportunity to develop and apply disaster risk

reduction measures. (ISDR).



Disaster Recovery

Disaster recovery is the process, policies and

procedures related to preparing for recovery or

continuation of technology infrastructure critical to

an organization after a natural or human-induced

disaster.



Disaster Recovery Plan

Disaster recovery planning is a subset of a larger process

known as business continuity planning and should include

planning for resumption of applications, data, hardware,

communications (such as networking) and other IT

infrastructure.



General steps to follow while creating DRP

Identify the scope and boundaries of DRP.

Conduct a disaster impact analysis (DIA)

Sell the concept of DRP to upper management and

obtain organizational and financial commitment.

Each department will need to understand its role in plan and support to maintain it.

The BCP project team must implement the plan. After

approval from upper management plan should be

maintained and implemented. Implementation team

should follow the guidelines procedures in plan.



Control measures in recovery plan

Different types of measures can be included in DRP.

Types of measures:

Preventive measures - These controls are aimed at

preventing an event from occurring.

Detective measures - These controls are aimed atdetecting or discovering unwanted events.

Corrective measures - These controls are aimed at

correcting or restoring the system after disaster or

event.

These controls should be always documented and

tested regularly.



What is restoration?

Restoration includes both returning injured resources

to the condition they would have been in if the oil

spill or release of a hazardous substance had not

occurred and replacing the services that were lost

while the habitat was contaminated. Restoration encompasses rehabilitation, replacement

and acquisition.

Restoration goes beyond cleanup or

remediation. Remediation only addresses removal of

hazardous substances and preventing further releases

from the source



Restore to What?

What is the Goal?

Native, indigenous ecosystem as a goal

Improving ecological functioning as a goal

Historical view helps guide restoration goals

Current conditions guide restoration goals



Goals of Restoration Science

• Identify the conditions and processes mostimportant to successful restoration

• Collect data on essential conditions

and processes, where possible

• Estimate range of uncertainty

produced by not havingall necessary data



How is restoration funded?

•

release of hazardous substances• To determine the appropriate payment amount

• collect information on the injuries to natural resources

• Use this information to determine the damages caused by

the hazardous substance release and to develop potentialrestoration projects.

• cost of conducting the damage assessment



Who conducts restorations?

•

The responsible party may choose to conduct therestoration themselves, with trustee supervision, or provide funding to the trustees for restoration.

• If funds are provided to the trustees, the trustees can

use the money to do the restoration themselves or theycan hire contractors to do the work.

• Trustees encourage local community groups to become involved in the restoration efforts.

•

Trustees are able to integrate restoration efforts withthose of community groups providing further benefitto the public.



The primary benefit of restoration is that injured

natural resources are returned to the condition they

would have been in if the spill or release of hazardous

substances had not occurred.

Restoring our natural resources benefits not only the

fish and wildlife that depend on these resources but

also the local community and visitors to these areas.

What are the benefits of restoration?



Reconstruction

Reconstruction is the actions taken to reestablish acommunity after a period of rehabilitation subsequent to a

disaster. Actions would include construction of permanent

housing, full restoration of all services, and complete

resumption of the pre-disaster state. (UN 1992).



Recovery & Reconstruction:

Opportunity for Sustainable Development

Creating a Vision What do we want to have when we are finished?

(More than just stronger buildings)

– What are the objectives at household, community,and national level?

People living, working, and investing with confidence

– Well-designed infrastructure, social and health

services

Growth-oriented economy

– Reduced vulnerability



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