hazard management

Question 1

what is hazard management

Answer 1

-the process in which governments and other organisations work together to protect people from the natural hazards that threaten their communities

Question 2

what is the aim of hazard management

Answer 2

-avoid or reduce loss of life and property
-provide help to those effected
-ensure rapid and effective recovery

Question 3

what is the model which depicts stages of hazard management

Answer 3

-hazard management cycle

Question 4

what is the hazard management cycle

Answer 4

-theoretical cycle
-4 stages with diff activity

Question 5

what are the stages in hazard management cycle

Answer 5

-mitigation (prevention e.g. land use zoning and protective structures)

-preparedness (minimising loss of life and property e.g. plans, warning systems, public awareness)

-response (coping with disaster e.g. search and rescue, evacuating, restoring critical infrastructure)

-recovery(short and long term e.g. proving essential health and safety and repairing, rebuilding infrastructure/ reopening schools)

Question 6

example of political instability

Answer 6

-haiti political coup in 2023

Question 7

what does the range of factors affecting response to hazards include

Answer 7

-choice of response depends on human and physical factors
-as organisations have limited resources and time, the scale of the (physical) risk will be major factor in influencing how resources are devoted to reducing hazards

Question 8

what is the model that depicts a time/normality curve

Answer 8

-the parks model

Question 9

the parks model

Answer 9

-used to help better understand the time dimensions of resilience from when a hazard strikes to when it returns to normal

Question 10

the uses of the parks model

Answer 10

-enables for better preparation for future events
-compares different places with the same disaster event e.g. Indian ocean tsunami and japan

Question 11

the stages in the parks (hazard response curve) model

Answer 11

-pre disaster: quality of life is normal, people do best to prevent and prepare for disaster e.g. educating public on how to act
-relief: after hazard occurred, immediate relief with medical attention and search + rescue, quality of life stop decreasing
-rehabilitation: groups try to return the state of things back to normal, provide food, water, shelter for those in need
-reconstruction: rehabilitation in longer term, reconstruction period and better preparation to improve from mistakes

Question 12

what does the parks model take into account

Answer 12

-the inconsistency of hazards in their mag, development, aid received)
-wealthier countries with diff curves (recover faster)
-in hazard events that affect different countries, each has own curve