Inequality And Its Impact On Vulnerability And Resilience

Question 1

What are the education rates in haiti?

Answer 1

61%
Males= 64.3%
Femals= 57.3%

Question 2

How might lack of education increase hazard vulnerability?

Answer 2

All hospitals in port-au-prince collapsed so intial treatment given by locals
Lack of education meant wounds werent treated correctly
Gangrene caused 1000+ deaths

Question 3

How was healthcare a problem in Haiti

Answer 3

Very few had access to healthcare in haiti
Only 47% vaccinated against Tetanus

Question 4

What is Tetanus and how might it be a problem with earthquakes

Answer 4

High moratlity rate unvaccinated have 70-100% chance of death
Rusty derbis from buildings cutting people.

Question 5

How was hosuing a problem in Haiti?

Answer 5

Building collapse is the biggest killer
90% of buildings in Port-au-prince collapsed or were severly damaged
There were no building regulations to ensure aseismic design
This was the givernments responsibility

Question 6

What is econmic governance?

Answer 6

Decision making process that affect a countries economic activities and its relationship with other economies.
This has major implications for poverty and peoples QOL.

Question 7

What is political governance? (Mitigation)

Answer 7

Creating policies i.e. natural disaster planning
Nature of process brings together the state non-state and private sectors determining the quality of the outcome.

Question 8

What is administartive governance?

Answer 8

Policy implementation
Requires good governance
Risk reduction, enforcement of building codes, land use planning

Question 9

What is the governance in developing countries like? (Haiti)

Answer 9

Less power for the people over socio-economic and physical environments
Low priority only have access to insecure resources

Question 10

What was evacuation like Heimeay?

Answer 10

Within 6hrs nearly all 5,300 residents had been evacuated
This was becuase of the icelandic state civil defence organisation whihc had an evacuation plan ready

Question 11

How was sea water used in Heimeay?

Answer 11

Potential damged reduced by spraying sea water on advancing lava flows cauing them to be slowed or diverted from towns
This was a good use of a free resource

Question 12

What has been doen in Heimeay since

Answer 12

Seismometers to register any rise of magma installed on the mainland along with tiltmeters to measure any subsidence

Question 13

What is the problem with hazard profiles?

Answer 13

Don’t take into account non-physical factors such as population density and poor governance
Disaster equation only accounts for the hazard not exposure, vulnerability or management

Question 14

What is a hazard profile?

Answer 14

A way of comparing the physical characteristics of different tectonic events

Question 15

What is compared on a hazard profile?

Answer 15

Magnitude
Speed of onset
Duration
Frequency
Spatial predictability