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IKM SYSTEMS IN DISASTER RISK REDUCTION



 IKM SYSTEMS IN DISASTER RISK REDUCTION



Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) aims to reduce the damage caused by natural hazards like earthquakes, floods, droughts and cyclones, through an ethic of prevention.
Disasters often follow natural hazards. A disaster's severity depends on how much impact a hazard has on society and the environment. The scale of the impact in turn depends on the choices we make for our lives and for our environment

There can be several relations between these two. One is how to improve the risk management process by applying the knowledge management system (KMS) to it. The other is how to identify risks in the knowledge management system and how to manage the risk in that system, in order to obtain the best results in terms of the risk reduction.

IKM enables and sustains informed decision-making for managing disaster risk and is essential for coordinated action. Informed decision-making needs a solid information and knowledge. Many of us assume that knowledge management is about capturing best practices and experiences people have and store it in a database with a hope that it will be useful later.

 In fact this is not true and many of us spend more than ten percent of our time in searching for a piece of information we know resides somewhere. Knowledge management is all about getting the right knowledge, in the right place, at the right time. In a broader context, information about disaster preparedness, dos’ and don’ts in emergency, disaster management plans, policies and guidelines are available at various domains from decades. However, millions of people are getting severely affected by disasters every year due to lack of adequate coping.

Continuing disasters worldwide remind us that we need to further advance our scientific understanding and policy action on disaster risk reduction—as well as better connection of information management and risk reduction. because through the use of information management, disaster can be identified at a early stage and this give officials better time to anticipate their action

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