Phallin tropical cyclone case study

Question 1

resliliance in phallin

Answer 1

• people in the area have resilience as they have lived through strong storms
• mangrove planted for protection for storm surges, tsunami’s

Question 2

how is phallin mitigated

Answer 2

• shelters
• 1 million evacuated from phallin
• warning signs
• prior to 1999, 23 cyclone centres
• 22 satlillte phones provided
• construction of embankments
• regeneration of mangraves

Question 3

how did they adapt to phallin

Answer 3

• built cyclone centres, 2 story strucutres to withstand windspeeds up to 300km/hr
• due to flooding and sea level rise, villages have been destroyed and homes moved inland
• planting mangrove trees due to increased sea level

Question 4

what are the effects of the 2013 storm

Answer 4

• windspeed touched 200km/hr, tearing down power lines
• 44 died
• 500,000 ha of agricltuature crops destroyed
• chilika lake suffered strom surge
• 17 districts and over 18,000 villages affected

Question 5

risks for human occupation/development

Answer 5

• majorities of the states population lived on the coastline
• accretation in the summer during low wave energy conditions and erosion in the winter
• without sediememt transport, some beaches would be threatened of disappearing
• human intervention
• 36% of the coastline eroding in the south

Question 6

management options…

Answer 6

• plant mangrove trees to replace those lost
• empowerment of 600 self-help groups from 60 villages
• awareness raised among locals/tourists
• community trained and armed
• motar boat traffic around chilika lake is regulated