Damage to life in natural disasters usingmitigatory actions: the use of technologies and communications

International Journal of Development Research

Volume: 
11
Article ID: 
21617
6 pages
Research Article

Damage to life in natural disasters usingmitigatory actions: the use of technologies and communications

Marcos Carneiro Silva, Rachel Cristina Santos Pires, Everton Rangel Bispo, José Roberto Moreira Ribeiro Gonçalves, Luciana Carreiras Norte and Fabiano Battemarco da Silva Martins

Abstract: 

Reflecting the greenhouse effect and the increasingly indiscriminate use of natural resources, the worsening of environmental conditions has led an increase in natural disasters around the world, the number of people affected and the costs related to damage caused; for that national and international organizations raise the tone in the measures for prevention and civil defense. Supporting greater performance from institutions and objectives for Disaster Risk Reduction. This study demonstrate the need to search efficient actions in the use of technologies and communications as determinant forms mitigating actions in the risks of damage to life in events of natural disasters. Information produced that has emerged as a primary object for speeding up the actions of agents and groups active in prevention, contingency and mitigation, determined by regional, local defense and protection plans. It is inexorable that the advancement and improvement of technologies and forms of communication in the last decades has made the world increasingly globalized and integrated in human relations, the speed of dissemination from large mass of data and information available today have brought countless opportunities and challenges, opportunities that enabled consolidate themselves in a single system, an agile and efficient way with various actions that act to face the risks of damage to life and property in the event of accidents and natural disasters.

DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.37118/ijdr.21617.05.2021
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