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Disaster Management and Disaster Preparedness: Examples of Practices in California and Turkey

Hilal Kaya(Ministry of National Education, Ankara, Turkey)
Abdullah Çavuşoğlu(Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Department of Computer Engineering, Ankara, Turkey)
Baha Şen(Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Department of Computer Engineering, Ankara, Turkey)
Elif Çalık(Karabük University, School of Health Sciences, Karabük, TURKEY)
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2016-07-23
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In order to ensure this, it’s necessary to increase the awareness of community members about the disasters and on which task they will be responsible in case of disaster

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Objective & Hypothesis:Disaster is the result of natural and human-induced events that community can’t be able to overcome by their own facilities and that causes economic and social losses by interrupting or stopping the social life.
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Key Findings & Data:Nowadays, causes of the transformation of the disasters to catastrophes appear to be the results of incorrect risk management methods.
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Conclusion & Impact:In order to ensure this, it’s necessary to increase the awareness of community members about the disasters and on which task they will be responsible in case of disaster
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Disaster is the result of natural and human-induced events that community can’t be able to overcome by their own facilities and that causes economic and social losses by interrupting or stopping the social life. Nowadays, causes of the transformation of the disasters to catastrophes appear to be the results of incorrect risk management methods. Most effective way of preventing the losses resulting from disasters is applying a good disaster plan. In order to ensure this, it’s necessary to increase the awareness of community members about the disasters and on which task they will be responsible in case of disaster

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Kaya, H., Çavuşoğlu, A., Şen, B., Çalık, E. (2016). Disaster Management and Disaster Preparedness: Examples of Practices in California and Turkey. TOJSAT, Volume: 4 Issue: 4. https://ajindex.com/articles/1660264

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