Hazard Management

Question 1

What are the 3 ps of hazard management?

Answer 1

Prediction
Protection
Preparedness

These help build resilience.

Question 2

Define prediction in a hazard sense

Answer 2

Ability to FORECAST, give WARNINGS so action can be taken to reduce IMPACT

Question 3

Define protection in a hazard sense.

Answer 3

All about built environment - NOT HUMANS.
Modifying the built environment to reduce damage to property and infrastructure

Question 4

Define preparedness (risk sharing) in a hazard sense

Answer 4

Pre-arranged measures to mitigate damage
- education, evacuations, emergency supplies and insurance.

Question 5

Name the sections of the DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT CYCLE (Hazard Management Cycle)

Answer 5

Mitigation

Question 6

What is the DISASTER RESPONSE CURVE?

Answer 6

The Park’s model
It measures quality of life after a hazard event over time, looking at relief (hrs - days) Rehabilitation (days-weeks), Reconstruction (weeks, years).
Some areas never reach the pre-hazard quality of life again!

Question 7

Criticisms of the Park’s Model

Answer 7

Doesn’t specify steps taken before hazard event.

Generic so doesn’t take into account pre-existing circumstances.

Question 8

Positives of the Hazard Management Cycle

Answer 8

Generic so can be applied to all hazards.

Notes steps taken before a hazard event.

considers how a hazard leads into the next. (hazards aren’t isolated events)

Looks more on management of effects rather than impacts.

Good model for action.

Question 9

Criticisms of the Hazard Management Cycle:

Answer 9

No indications of time-scale.

Generic - does not take into account pre-existing circumstances.

assumes expertise and resources that a country may not have

Question 10

Positives of the Park’s Model?

Answer 10

Generic so can be applied to all hazards.

Easily compare significance of event with normality.

indicate magnitude or severity of an event.

useful for showing areas that could be changed to reduce vulnerability in future hazards.

Can be used to compare two events.

Question 11

Criticisms of both the Hazard Management Cycle and the Park’s Model / Disaster Response Curve:

Answer 11

Both overly simplistic compared to reality,

No account of spatial variation of hazard. - some areas will be impacted more severely than other areas.

Doesn’t take into account of secondary hazards (e.g cholera outbreak after Haiti earthquake)

No quantitative data to show specifics of situation.