Disaster Management detailed syllabus for Safety & Fire Engineering (SFE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the SFE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Safety & Fire Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit SFE 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-V scheme and its subjects refer to SFE Professional Elective-V syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of disaster management is as follows.
Course Objectives:
Download the iStudy App for all syllabus and other updates.
Unit I
INTRODUCTION TO DISASTERS
Definition: Disaster, Hazard, Vulnerability, Resilience, Risks – Disasters: Types of disasters -Earthquake, Landslide, Flood, Drought, Fire etc – Classification, Causes, Impacts including social, Economic, political, environmental, health, psychosocial, etc.- Differential impacts- in terms of caste, Class, gender, age, location, disability – Global trends in disasters: urban disasters, pandemics, Complex emergencies, Climate change- Dos and Don’ts during various types of Disasters.
Unit II
APPROACHES TO DISASTER RISK REDUCTION (DRR) 9
Disaster cycle – Phases, Culture of safety, prevention, mitigation and preparedness community Based DRR, Structural- nonstructural measures, Roles and responsibilities of- community, Panchayati Raj Institutions / Urban Local Bodies (PRIs/ULBs), States, Centre, and other stakeholders- Institutional Processes and Framework at State and Central Level- State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) – Early Warning System – Advisories from Appropriate Agencies.
Unit III
Download the iStudy App for all syllabus and other updates.
Unit IV
DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT IN INDIA 9
Hazard and Vulnerability profile of India, Components of Disaster Relief: Water, Food, Sanitation, Shelter, Health, Waste Management, Institutional arrangements (Mitigation, Response and Preparedness, Disaster Management Act and Policy – Other related policies, plans, programmers And legislation – Role of GIS and Information Technology Components in Preparedness, Risk Assessment, Response and Recovery Phases of Disaster – Disaster Damage Assessment.
Unit V
DISASTER MANAGEMENT: APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES AND
FIELD WORKS 9
Landslide Hazard Zonation: Case Studies, Earthquake Vulnerability Assessment of Buildings and Infrastructure: Case Studies, Drought Assessment: Case Studies, Coastal Flooding: Storm Surge Assessment, Floods: Fluvial and Pluvial Flooding: Case Studies; Forest Fire: Case Studies, Man Made disasters: Case Studies, Space Based Inputs for Disaster Mitigation and Management and field works related to disaster management.
Course Outcomes:
Student will be able to
- Differentiate the types of disasters, causes and their impact on environment and Society
- Assess vulnerability and various methods of risk reduction measures as well as Mitigation.
- Draw the hazard and vulnerability profile of India, Scenarios in the Indian context. Know the Disaster damage assessment and management.
- Awareness of institutional processes in the country and to develop rudimentary
- Ability to respond to their surroundings with potential disaster response in areas where they live.
- Complete preparedness, response and recovery in order to reduce the impactof Disasters.
Text Books:
Download the iStudy App for all syllabus and other updates.
Reference Books:
- Govt. of India: Disaster Management Act, Government of India, New Delhi, 2002.
- Government of India, National Disaster Management Policy, 2009.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Safety & Fire Engineering 6th Sem, visit SFE 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Safety & Fire Engineering results, visit Anna University SFE all semester results direct link.