Review captures emergency management's role in sustainable development, suggesting enhanced local and national measures.
Emergency management is a holistic approach to managing disasters before and after their occurrence. A comprehensive emergency management approach involves four concepts which include mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. This review paper captures the meaning and types of emergency management and disaster risk reduction, institutional and policy framework for disaster management, factors that leads to effective management in order to enhance sustainable development in Nigeria, the challenges of emergency management. It recommends more serious measures at both local and national levels to encourage emergency management and reduction of risks in Nigeria to facilitate sustainable development.
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