The Importance Of Players And How They Respond To A Hazard Flashcards
What is a player?
The different groups of people who might be involved (before, during and after the event has taken place)
What are examples of players? (Haiti)
Before- residents and local goverment
During- residents and emergency services
After- NGO’s and inetrnational governments
What is the parks model?
The parks model is a disaster response curve. It’s aim is to show the effects of a hazard on quality of life over a sequence of time.
What are the stages of the park model?
Pre-disaster- “normal”
Disaster
Relief- search & rescue, care
Rehabilitation- temporary housing etc
Reconstruction- permenant building etc
What is the disaster stage of a disaster event?
Disruption deterioriation from normality/ decrease in QOL
What happens if another disaster occurs in the rehabilitation/recovery phase?
Recovery will be stopped and QOL will deteriorate and the process will start again
What happens after the recovery phase?
Some countries will overshoot and become better than before usually the case richer countires some will return to some sort of normality while others for example Haiti havent returned to normal yet.
