Governance and vulnerability

Question 1

The way in which a country or region is run is known as governance, this also impacts on vulnerability and resilience

Answer 1

National governance refers to how the whole country is run

Local governance is how local areas are run

Question 2

If a place has good governance that means it is well run and the local or national government is effective
These areas are more able to

Answer 2

cope with hazard events and will have a faster recovery

Question 3

Alternatively weak or poor governance leads to increased

Answer 3

vulnerability and impacts on the area’s ability to cope with a hazard event

Question 4

Poor governance impacts on the ability of governments to

Answer 4

Plan for hazard events using techniques such as hazard mapping and land use zoning

Educate the population about the risk and how best to protect themselves
Predict events as they do not have the technology and equipment available

Prepare by ensuring that stocks of water, food, medical equipment and shelter are available

Question 5

poor governance may also be linked to
A lack of openness which means that governments are not held to account

Answer 5

Corruption can have a number of impacts:

Money is not spent on preparation
Construction companies can get around building regulations or land use zoning by bribing officials

In Turkey corruption related to construction led to increased deaths in the Izmit earthquake (1999) and the more recent Kahramanmaras (2023) earthquake