PMT - human responses to hazards

Question 1

what are the two ways people can respond to hazards?

Answer 1

passively - fatalism
actively - prediction adaption mitigation management risk sharing

Question 2

what are the two ways people can respond to hazards?
passive examples
active examples

Answer 2

passively - fatalism
actively - prediction adaption mitigation management risk sharing

Question 3

what is fatalism?

Answer 3

hazards are uncontrollable natural events, and any losses should be accepted as there is nothing that can be done to stop them

Question 4

what is prediction?

Answer 4

using scientific research and past events to know when a hazard will take place so that warnings may be delivered and impacts of the hazard can be reduced

Question 5

what is adaptation?

Answer 5

attempting to live with hazards by adjusting lifestyle choices so vulnerability of the hazard is lessened

Question 6

what is mitigation?

Answer 6

Strategies carried out to lessen the severity of a hazard

Question 7

what is management?

Answer 7

Coordinated strategies to reduce a hazard’s effects. This includes
prediction, adaptation, mitigation.

Question 8

what is risk sharing?

Answer 8

the community shares the risk posed by a natural hazard and invests collectively to mitigate the impacts of future hazards

Question 9

what is an example of where risk sharing has worked?

Answer 9

new zealand

Question 10

new zealand canterbury earthquake

Answer 10

2010

cost the country 20% of it’s national GDP

now attempts to share the risk by insurance investment, so strategies can be put in place before the disasters rather than investing more in a clean up