Sustainable management phillipines

Question 1

volcanoes

Answer 1

18 active volcanoes
Philippines plate subducted beneath eurasion plate
explosive eruptions

Question 2

earthquakes

Answer 2

2013 7.1 magnitude earthquake
vulnerable densely populated areas

Question 3

tropical cyclones

Answer 3

20 typhoons a year
low lying land due to islands
located at 5 - 25 degrees latitude with sea temp above 26

Question 4

human geography

Answer 4

GDP of $3500
0.699 HDI
565 disasters since 1990 hard to recover
20% residents live below poverty line

Question 5

pop. growth

Answer 5

19 million in 1950 to 114 million in 2021

Question 6

economic growth

Answer 6

rely on natural resources, industry expansion has had env impacts

Question 7

volc./EQ management

Answer 7

national disaster risk reduction and management plan. However, not all managed as successfully

Philippine institute of volcanology and seismology. However. Bohol EQ went unpredicted killing 222

Question 8

National lahar mapping

Answer 8

maps distribution of lahar deposits from explosive eruption and hazard maps

Question 9

eval. prediction

Answer 9

Mt. Pinatubo was accurately predicted but 1 million lost their homes with long term impacts as farmland was useable
rapidly growing population increases vulnerability.
local tribes refuse to evacuate

Question 10

successes forecasting

Answer 10

Pinatubo 1991 - early warning system predicted volcano with over 200,000 evacuated with only 847 dying.

Question 11

typhoons management

Answer 11

PAGASA established in 1972. Construction of disaster reduction facilities.

Question 12

Typhoon management success

Answer 12

Typhoon Haiyan predicted days before landfall