Abstract
Disasters and emergencies happen a lot of times every year. At some point, it can be argued that their occurrence is inevitable as disasters and emergencies, or even crises, are bound to happen; and that it is not a question of if but when they are going to happen . Keeping that in mind, it would be important to know how the basic and different operational definitions of disasters and emergencies; how society has coped up with them and the different specific strategies and standards set in place to appropriately address them such as but not limited to mitigation steps and strategies, ...
