Chapter 1-3 Sawyer Highlights

Question 1

Five stages of flood background?

Answer 1

1. Willing to live
2. Utilize to plain
3. Control the flood
4. Reduce the damage
5. Manage the risk

Question 2

China Case study notes?

Answer 2

Invested in control but loses also increased
More effort on planning and preparedness
More resilient and aware of residual risk

Question 3

Asia Tsnumi notes?

Answer 3

1. Even a small amount of time is enough to warn people and reduce losses
2. Don’t put critical structures in exposed locations

Question 4

New Orleans notes?

Answer 4

Need for method to asses condition of structures

Question 5

Seven ongoing challenges

Answer 5

1. Integrate: just having structural doesn’t work
2. Responsibility: needs to be clear
3. Reliability: Maintenance is key
4. Nonstructural: Needs adoption, takes little damage
5. Laws: decision to invest need to be clear
6. Data: use high quality data
7. Participation: public participation is essential

Question 6

Four types of components

Answer 6

1. Hard - levees
2. Soft - wetlands
3. Non - forecast and warning
4. Policy - land use

Question 7

Two parts of risk

Answer 7

1. Probability

2. Concequence

Question 8

Two parts of consequence

Answer 8

1. Exposure

2. Vulnerability

Question 9

Three parts of vulnerability

Answer 9

1. Susceptibility
2. Value
3. Resilience

Question 10

Fours parts of a whole system view

Answer 10

1. Joint extremes
2. Spatial coherence
3. Temporal coherence
4. Whole system behavior

Question 11

Using risk and uncertainty to make informed choices

Three types being informed?

Answer 11

1. Risk informed
2. Uncertainty informed
3. Outcome focus

Question 12

Four characteristics of good FRM?

Answer 12

1. Whole system and societal goals
2. Using risk and uncertainty to make informed choices
3. Use measures and instruments
4. Continuous process

Question 13

Six advantage of Use measures and instruments

Answer 13

1. Tradeoffs to negate weakness
2. Reversibility and flexibility
3. Adaptability to future change
4. Robustness to many futures
5. Innovative solutions to meet multiple objectives
6. Assessment against a range of criteria

Question 14

Eight Monitors and review teach us?

Answer 14

1. History teaches us less
2. Consider many futures
3. Avoid short term-ness
4. Long term needs long term commitment
5. New and radical solutions
6. Use thing that are already built where possible
7. Views change so solutions need to be ready for that change
8. FRM happen along side other sustainability goals that need to be understood

Question 15

Three approaches to combing criteria

Answer 15

1. Create wighting process
2. Convert ot coins
3. Hybrid approach

Question 16

Principles of Resilient design

Answer 16

Resist wide range of threats
rapid recovery
shouldnt take excessive damage

Question 17

Principles of Adaptive magment

Answer 17

Don’t close future options
Effective in many futures
Reassess future continuously
Modify plans based on future

Question 18

Success criteria must be?

Answer 18

Clear and able to be challenged

Allow for progress reviews