Lesson 2- What are factors affecting hazard vulnerability?

Question 1

What factors increase increase vulnerability?

Answer 1

• Poorer quality of buildings
• Weaker systems of communications
• Limited funding pre and post disaster
• Lack of central coordination to plan for/deal with a disaster

Question 2

Whow is the number of deaths changing and why?

Answer 2

• 600 million people living in tectonically active areas of the world
• 500 million people at risk from volcanic hazards in 2000
• 200,000 people who have lost their lives as a result of volcanic eruptions in the last 500 years
• 1,000 deaths per year in recent years due to volcanic activity

Question 3

Why would people choose to put themselfs at risk from tectonic hazards?

Answer 3

• Personality-dogmatic
• Attitudes-always lived there
• Past experince-infrequency
• Values-religion
• Expections of the future

Question 4

Hazard risk

Answer 4

• The probability of hazard events occuring and creating loss of lives and livlihoods

Question 5

Hazard vulnerability

Answer 5

• How exposed you may be
  -conditions of place

Question 6

What is the disaster risk equation?

Answer 6

• Risk=
  frequency or magnitude x vulnerability/
  capacity of population to cope

Question 7

Why are hazards increasing?

Answer 7

The unsustainable use of fossil fuels is warming the planet. The resulting change in climate is increasing the frequency and severity of weather realted hazards.

Question 8

Why is vulnerability increasing?

Answer 8

• Poor land use e.g building on flood plains, unstable slopes and coastlines. Envronmental degredation also contributes

Question 9

Why is capacity decreasing?

Answer 9

• Debt repayments, inequitable trade arangements, selective foreign investment and the redirection of aid funds towards geo-strategic regions mean that the pooresnt and most vulnerable countries lack the resouces to cope

Question 10

What is hazard perception?

Answer 10

• The way people perceive hazards
• Fatalism
• Domination
• Adaption