Natural Disaster And Human Development

Abstract

Natural disasters like earthquakes,  drought,  flood etc have severe impact on human population as well as our environment. The day by day increase in these disasters is due to the climate change which is due to human activities. After viewing the recent trends it's observed that the major effects of disasters were on human that included displacement of community,  increase in mortality rate as well as damage of the infrastructure and community. The countries having low income were more severely affected.  Major causes of occurs of natural disasters include plate tectonics , climate change, weather pattern and human activities.  Among these all causes, only human activities are under control of human. Human activities like deforestation,  pollution etc are leading to deterioration of environment and occurrence of natural disasters too. All of these leading to human loss, economic loss, as well as environmental damage. Natural Disaster cause displacement,  death, injury and harm to life of humans . Occurrence of natural disasters lead to damage of buildings as well as infrastructure indirectly economic loss. The environmental damage caused leads to habitat destruction as well as loss of biodiversity.  Several mitigation strategies were made in order to reduce or cope up from natural disasters.  These strategies were divided in three parts which are Pre, During and Post disasters solutions.  Many technological as well as Innovative solutions were also made all which lead to reduction of natural disasters to an extent leading to development of society and humans. Due to the issues created by natural disasters,  many opportunities were made for human development including development of Innovative ideas, rebuilding of society recovery as well as making of adaptation strategies and many more.

Key words- Natural Disaster,  Rebuilding,  Adaptation,  Mitigation,  Human development.