A Study on Disaster Management Databases

In this paper, global disaster databases and their implementation standards are discussed. The set of standards followed by each disaster database, the scope of different set of databases and its relevance in global disaster area are analyzed and explained. Knowledge obtained from a disaster database can be used for the disaster risk reduction planning and for comparing the effectiveness of active disaster risk reduction plan. The disaster risk reduction plan plays a vital role in the mitigation and resilience phase; a well-constructed plan should address these two factors. This paper aims to study representative disaster databases and to establish the correlation between the disaster database and disaster reduction plan.