ABSTRACT
The comprehensive disaster management consists of two main parts as pre-and post disaster activities, which are sequential activities according to the occurrence of disasters. In this circle, the preparedness and risk reduction activities take place before a disaster strike. The activities after disasters should be followed are the emergency management, rehabilitation, and reconstruction. Till the 1999 Kocaeli and Düzce earthquakes in Turkey, the conventional disaster policy focused on the adhoc activities after each disaster, which gives the role to the State as the main compensator of the earthquake losses based on the Disaster Law (7269). This situation of social organization before 1999 earthquakes can be described as the fatalistic society, when the attributes of resources are as random and post disaster contributions (Balamir, 2001).
