Community participation in enhancing actions on environment and Disaster Management

Resumen

The integral part of development considered is environment. Individual’s environment has an impact that also affects the well-being and welfare of the community. It has been depicted that in developing countries due to the absence of environmental legislation the environmental protection has been limited resulting in the creation of environmental problems in third world countries. Therefore community participation in development projects is necessary due to lack of legislation to protect human rights as well as the environment. Once the event has got underway, disasters can become unmanageable. Therefore to prevent the losses, certain preventive steps and mitigation steps must be taken. Control over the disaster event would be usually lost during its occurrence if the community is not well prepared. The disruption by a disaster can be reduced if each individual in the community is familiar with ways of coping and precautionary measures. The main objective of this study is that the local authorities and NGOs should interact and integrate with the community and gather basic information to have a general description about the community regarding its nature, needs and resources for disaster risk reduction. The term paper depicts about the relationship between environment and disaster management and the preventive steps taken to create awareness among community to actively participate and work for the welfare and well being of nation.