Effectiveness of strategies: building community resilience

Question 1

How can community resilience be strengthened?

Answer 1

• land use planning
• monitoring and warning systems for natural disasters
• increase preparedness for disaster response and recovery

Question 2

How can land-use planning reduce exposure to hazards?

Answer 2

reduce the community s exposure to tectonic hazards by controlling and minimising development in high-risk areas

Question 3

How can hazard-resistant building designs reduce vulnerability to hazards?

Answer 3

• shock absorbers
  reduces buildings from swaying too much and collapsing

Question 4

How does having warnings and monitoring systems reduce vulnerability to hazards?

Answer 4

allows people to evacuate ahead of time, reducing susceptibility to tectonic hazards

Question 5

How does increasing preparedness for response and recovery build community resilience?

Answer 5

• raising public awareness, learning first aid, conducting evacuation drills (allowing people to know what to do in times of distress or when others need help)

Question 6

What are the challenges that could be faced in building community resilience?

Answer 6

• lack of community resources (lack technology and financial resources, reduces the ability to raise awareness)
• capabilities of the community to organise itself for others (limit ability to respond and recover from tectonic disasters)

Question 7

What are some strategies to respond to disasters?

Answer 7

1. search and rescue
2. timely evacuation (infrastructure may collapse,aftershocks, basic services disrupted, tsunami waves)
3. water, food, healthcare, psychological services