Chapter 5 Corporate Community Interface: New Approaches in Disaster Risk Reduction

When a natural disaster happens, it is sometimes thought that it is the role of the government and national authority department to tackle it. But as seen in virtually every disaster incident, it is the local community that is hit and impacted the most. And unless the community reduces its vulnerability and followed with quick recovery, corporate activities get undoubtedly impacted. Moreover, while occasional large catastrophes such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and cyclones continue to occur in various parts of the world, the rapid increase in disaster loss is due almost to an exponential increase in the occurrence of small- to medium-scale disasters associated with socio-natural hazards such as landslide, flood, drought, and fire.