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Question 1

What is risk based on?

Answer 1

It is based on the overall disadvantage, i.e. A combination of political, physical, social and cultural factors

Question 2

What does a hazard profile do?

Answer 2

Compares all the physical processes to help decision makers identify and rank hazards and decide how to allocate attention/resources

Question 3

What does the World Risk Index measure?

Answer 3

Exposure, susceptibility, adaptive capacity and coping capacity

Question 4

How many factors determine a local population’s vulnerability to natural hazards?

Answer 4

5

Question 5

Name the factors that determine a local population’s vulnerability to natural hazards

Answer 5

Physical, Environmental, Economic, Education/Information and Social/Demographic

Question 6

What does the World Risk Report set out to do?

Answer 6

Publish a Risk Index

Question 7

Give one reason as to why hazard profiles are unreliable

Answer 7

They are very difficult to compare different events - you need the same processes/ scale of measurement/damage

Question 8

Give another reason as to why hazard profiles are unreliable

Answer 8

Very difficult to compare spatial and temporal distributions

Question 9

What do earthquake hazard profiles measure

Answer 9

Magnitude, speed of onset, duration, areal extent, spatial predictability and frequency

Question 10

State why hazard profiles are useless in some areas

Answer 10

Low levels of economic development can prevent any plan being implemented

Question 11

What can prevent hazard profiles from being effective

Answer 11

Areal extent - A large areal extent can overwhelm emerging services so loss of llife increases