This book updates its readers about the methods and management of livestock during disasters. The book has covered all mad made and natural disasters and their effect on livestock and how they can be managed better for longer survival and help to the humans. Topics on how animals can sense a disaster in advance and what are the common indications given by them and how humans can benefit from it. Book elucidates the management of feeding, feed resources, production and health so as to make the livestock production economical. It is hoped that the compilation will prove useful for the researchers, planners and policy makers to understand the causes for the loss of productivity and health of livestock in drier regions and help in devising management plans towards sustenance and improvement of production.
This book updates its readers about the methods and management of livestock during disasters.The book has covered all mad made and natural disasters and their effect on livestock and how they can be managed better for longer survival and help to the humans. Topics on how animals can sense a disaster in advance and what are the common indications given by them and how humans can benefit from it.
WHO defines Disaster as “any occurrence, that causes damage, ecological disruption, loss of human life, deterioration of health and health services, on a scale sufficient to warrant an extraordinary response from outside the affected community or area”
Nuclear Disasters What is NUCLEAR ENERGY or NUCLEAR POWER? It is the energy released in nuclear fission or nuclear fusion. Motive power generated by nuclear reactor. Where atomic energy of a substance get converted in to electrical energy.
Efforts to Mitigate Natural Disaster at National and Global Level What is A ‘Disaster’? It as ‘an event that has occurred unexpectedly with destructive consequences’ - (UNOCHA 2005). It as ‘a calamitous event resulting in loss of life, great human suffering and distress, and large scale material damage’ - (IFRC2005). None of the international agencies take animals into account in their definitions
“It is not uncommon for animals to exhibit behavioral changes before an impending disaster. Wild animals often vacate areas, gather in strange groupings and sometimes will even enter into human habitats they normally avoid,” animal behavior expert Diana L.Guerrero said.Three days before the earthquake, thousands of toads roamed the streets of Mianzhu, a hard-hit city where at least 2,000 people have been reported killed.
A disaster (from Latin meaning, “bad star’) is the impact of a natural or man-made event that negatively affects life, property, livelihood or industry often resulting in permanent changes to human societies, ecosystems and environment. The event itself is not a disaster; it is the impact that is a disaster. Their possibility of occurrence, time, place and severity of the strike can be reasonably and in some cases accurately predicted by technological and scientific advances. Hence, we can to some extent reduce the impact of damage though we cannot reduce the extent of damage itself. Despite the severe impacts suffered – including trauma, starvation, dehydration, infection, disease and shock-animals are often the silent victims of disasters, and there is a real need around for the provision of effective training and management programmes to ensure that their survival and welfare are adequately accounted for. This demands the study of disaster management in methodical and orderly approach.The World Health Organization (WHO) defines a ‘disaster’ as any occurrence that causes damage, destruction, ecological disruption, loss of human life, human suffering, deterioration of health and health services on a scale sufficient to warrant an extraordinary response from outside the affected community or area (WHO, 1999). It is an event, concentrated in time and space, which causes social, economic, cultural and political devastation and which affects both individual people and communities (Kumar, 1998).
Conclusion In developing countries, like India, disasters are a common phenomenon every year. The most badly affected are the poor and marginalized communities in India, who suffer most in terms of human and property loss when disaster strikes. Not only are they the worst hit, but also, their capacity to recover from disaster is limited by the social, economic and political conditions in which they live. In many developing countries the institutional mechanisms for facing disaster are not sufficient to meet the challenge. This results in the severe loss of human and livestock life which could be saved, to a greater or lesser extent, if preparedness, response and recovery mechanisms were in order. In terms of disaster preparedness, developing countries are well behind the developed nations. Protecting and saving human life is the first priority in disaster relief and protecting property (which includes animals) is the second. Because of this, emergency management officials in India are not trained to deal with animals or to restore animal related business. This is something that requires more attention from the National Crisis Management Committee and the state CMGs, and livestock relief after natural disasters needs to be given greater emphasis.
