Limitations of managment

Question 1

5 issues with managment

Answer 1

Man vs nature 
Scale 
Environment 
Ceteris Paribus 
Economic development

Question 2

Man vs Nature arguement

Answer 2

Near impossible to prevent some damage, Mt Etna 2002 ski station Piano Provenzana destroyed damaging tourism and causing structural unemployment
Destruction of vineyards and chestnut orchards
Nevado Del Ruiz 1985, 3400 ha of agricultural land would have created economic refugees

Question 3

Scale limitaion

Answer 3

Freak sized eruptions or populations cannot be protected
Mexico city has pop of 20million w/ roads averaging 7km/h makes evacuation impossible unless done early to extreme cost
Upon 2013 Mt Popocatepetl only 90,000 police able to respond

Question 4

Environment

Answer 4

Always vulnerable as uncontrollable
Around Mt Etna ash contaminated the drinking water of 8,000 people and wildlife
Lava created 1km deadzone

Question 5

Ceterus Paribus

Answer 5

Volcanoes are unpredictable and anomalies occur
Japan, Mt Ontake 2014 eruption was rare phreatomagmatic eruption meaning despite country having best warning system in world 57 people died

Question 6

Economic development

Answer 6

LEDC’’s like Mexico and Columbia are less able to prepare
In Columbia 1985 when Nevado Del Ruiz erupted authorities had ‘wait and see’ strategy resulting in 23,000 deaths and $7.7bn of damage
With better equipment money to afford opp cost avoidable