International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 3

Disaster management as a means of corruption: cooperative system as an alternative way

  • Author:
  • Siddhartha Chatterjee
  • Total Page Count: 9
  • Page Number: 610 to 618

Assistant Professor, Political Science, Mugberia Gangadhar Mahavidyalaya, PO - Bhupatinagar, District - East Midnapore, Pin - 721425, West Bengal, India

Online published on 19 August, 2014.

Abstract

In this writing it will be tried to show the relation between Disaster Management and Corruption and it will be tried to discover an alternative way for the disaster management. The word disaster is derived from Middle French désastre and that from Old Italian disastro, which in turn comes from the Greek pejorative prefix δυσ-, (dus-) "bad" + άστήρ (aster), "star". The root of the word disaster ("bad star" in Greek) comes from an astrological sense of a calamity blamed on an unfavorable position of a planet. Disaster management (or emergency management) is a management which is a plan for and coordinates all the personnel and materials required to either mitigate the effects of, or recover from, natural or man-made disasters. Disaster management is not the eliminatory medium of disaster its study is an important part of the field. On the other hand, in philosophical, theological, or moral discussions, corruption is spiritual or moral impurity or deviation from an ideal. For the relation between corruption and disaster management, the main goal of disaster management is being hampered. After all these here we have to need to find an alternative way. In the recent past Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) including cooperative agencies under the banner of Third Sector Initiatives have been vocally involved in preparing themselves to help vulnerable communities in the disaster occurred regions (Rajendran, 2006) in the domain of building social capital. Cooperative institutions with different entities and other CSOs have rich experience across the globe and have made considerable metamorphose among the societies (Morrissey, 1997). The cooperative organizations of local, regional and national stature have been either independently or in association with other CSOs are working on disaster mitigation and rehabilitation.

Keywords

Disaster, Disaster Management, Corruption, Cooperative System