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Q5B · With a neat sketch explain in detail Disaster Cycle. Also elaborate the same consider…

2026-05-15 · Semester VI final

Actual TEE paper · 100 marks · 3 hours · Q1 + any four of Q2–Q7

This is the second question printed as Q5A in the source. It is displayed as Q5B here so the two parts remain distinguishable.

Q5B. With a neat sketch explain in detail Disaster Cycle. Also elaborate the same considering Droughts as a disaster [10 marks]

Answer

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The management cycle continues after recovery
Diagram: The management cycle continues after recovery. Labels: The management cycle continues after recovery | The management cycle continues after recovery | Risk reduction | Prevention and mitigation: avoid risk or | reduce losses. | Preparedness | Plans, warnings, training and resources to | act. | Response | Urgent protection, rescue and essential | assistance. | Recovery | Restore services and livelihoods; rebuild | safer. | Lessons improve the next cycle
A drought develops slowly, but all stages still apply.
  1. Prevention and mitigation. Reduce avoidable vulnerability through watershed conservation, suitable cropping, efficient water use and sustainable groundwater management. These do not prevent every rainfall deficit.
  2. Preparedness. Monitor rainfall, storage and crop stress; plan water priorities, advisories, supply contingencies and livelihood support.
  3. Response. Provide safe drinking water and urgent livelihood, fodder or health support according to assessed need; manage scarce resources fairly.
  4. Recovery. Restore productive capacity and livelihoods, repair water systems and improve future planning. Review whether reconstruction and new demand would recreate the same water stress.

How the cycle connects in one village

Before a deficient monsoon, the village improves storage and water-use efficiency: this is mitigation. When monitoring shows a deficit, authorities activate a prepared priority-supply plan: this is preparedness. During severe shortage, safe drinking-water supply and targeted livelihood assistance are response. After conditions improve, repairing sources and restoring livelihoods are recovery. Reviewing which households were excluded should change the next plan. Thus recovery feeds into better mitigation and preparedness rather than simply restoring the earlier vulnerability.

In the six-stage lecture diagram, prevention and mitigation are shown separately, and rehabilitation/reconstruction are distinguished within recovery. The stages can overlap; an activity is classified by its purpose, not just its calendar date.