factors impacting vulnerability and resilience

Question 1

inequality of education

Answer 1

not educated = less aware of risks and how to protect themselves

-Haiti = 60% literacy rate and people uneducated in healthcare and emergency services

Question 2

inequality of housing

Answer 2

-less able to withstand disasters impacts
-collapses = injuries and death

-haiti = lack of building controls and regulation
-port au prince many slum houses

Question 3

inequality of healthcare

Answer 3

communities suffer from more diseases so less abe to cope and recover from disaster
-more likely to die and are more weak

-haiti = lack of healthcare and healthcare workers - in rural areas, 40% don’t have clean water

Question 4

inequality of income opportunities

Answer 4

cant protect themselves or recover
-cant buy resources for help

-haiti = extreme poverty 24% and 80% pop live below poverty line at less than 2 dollars per day

Question 5

governance

Answer 5

-lack of disaster preparation so emergency services in Haiti didn’t know what to do
-corruption = lack of resources, infrastructure and poor standard of living
-lack of flow of aif from international orgs for Haiti due to fears of corruption e.g. 2bil aid from venezuela oil program supposed to be invested in post quake projects but gov auditors said it was embezzled
-no building regulations in haiti

Question 6

pop density

Answer 6

-more people and buildings to be injured

haiti = epicentre 24km from port au prince of 2 mil people pop

Question 7

accessibility

Answer 7

-harder for emergency services to reach

turkey = aid struggled to get there and get people to hospitals

haiti = in rural areas 40% lack access to surfaced roads

Question 8

degree of urbanisation

Answer 8

-rapid = more houses built quickly so less quality
-more dense = harder for emerngency services to work in

Question 9

deforestation

Answer 9

-in haiti, unstable ground = liquefaction and landslides