Pressure & Release Model (pressure)

Question 1

The pressure and release model takes into

Answer 1

account the socio-economic context of a hazard

Pressure model
The pressure model demonstrates how there are a range of factors which increase vulnerability and why some areas lack resilience

Question 2

Within the pressure mode there are Root causes

Dynamic pressures

Unsafe conditions

Answer 2

Root causes - related to resources, decision making and governance these lead to dynamic pressures

Dynamic pressures - relate to education, urbanisation and population change which create unsafe conditions

Unsafe conditions - poor quality housing and infrastructure, poverty

Question 3

root causes

Answer 3

limited access to: power, structure and resources

ideologies : political system and economic system

Question 4

Unsafe conditions

Answer 4

physical:
dangerous location
low quality infrastructure
poor building qualities

socio economic:
special groups at risk
low incomes

Institutional :
lack of public preparedness
endemic disease

Question 5

dynamic pressures

Answer 5

lack of
local institutions
training
appropriate skills
local investment
ethical standards

macro-forces
rapid population change
rapid urbanisation change
debt
deforestation
decline in productivity