Towards efficient disaster management in Egypt

The concept of disaster management enables the appropriation of actions in complex and confusing disaster scenarios. In Egypt, the situation calls for the adoption of efficient disaster management policies which take into consideration the attentive allocation of resources to alternative and competing demands.The main aim of this paper is to investigate routes to a better management of disasters in Egypt. The discussion commences by defining and classifying disasters. The paper then focuses on investigating the concept of disaster management. Progressively, the discussion depicts the concept of ‘disaster management programs’.Having laid down the research foundation, the paper proceeds to numerate the different types of disasters to which Egypt is susceptible. This is accompanied by a general depiction of the problems affronting disaster management in Egypt.The paper strives to find solutions to the disaster management problem in Egypt by proposing a set of guidelines. Such guidelines are formulated in the trial to overcome the clearly undermined disaster management procedures in the country. In correspondence to such guidelines, the paper recommends the attentive study and examination of a particular set of considerations in order to ensure the sound implementation of the deduced guidelines.To give the discussion a practical sense, the paper applies its deduced guidelines and recommended considerations to an important disaster management activity; the provision of temporary settlements. The main goal is to demonstrate the applicability of the guidelines along with the recommended considerations in order to achieve beneficial outcomes on the economic, socio-cultural and ecologic multidisciplinary levels.