Theoretical frameworks Flashcards

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Describe Park’s model

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Compares the response curve of hazard events and compares areas at different stages of development

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Name the four stages of Park’s model

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Pre-disaster, relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction

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Describe pre-disaster of Park’s model

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QoL is is at a norm before the disaster, people do their best to prepare and prevent such events

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Describe relief of Park’s model

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Hazard occurred, immediately relief is a priority with medical attention, rescue services and emergency care which can last from hours to days until QoL has stopped decreasing

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Describe rehabilitation stage of Park’s model

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Government and non-state players try to return the state to norm by providing basic needs

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Describe the reconstruction stage of Park’s model

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Investment is put into infrastructure, crops and poverty to improve their reactions for the next disaster

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What is the role of scientists?

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Prediction and forecasting, accuracy depends on the type and location of the tectonic hazard

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What is the risk disk?

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All factors combine to reduce disaster effects

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Name the six risk disk factors

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  • Disaster preparation
  • Disaster response
  • Disaster recovery
  • Disaster mitigation
  • Development
  • Adaptation to climate change
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10
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Forecasts based on (1) from global (2) and historical records
Long term forecasts are more reliable than short term ones and encourages governments to (3)

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1 - data and evidence
2 - seismic monitoring
3 - enforce building regulations and evacuation procedures

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It is not currently possible to accurately predict (1) as you would need a (2) which is a (3) of seismic activity. Geologists base predictions on underground movement of (4) models predict where (5) occur by stimulating different rocky (6)

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1 - earthquakes 
2 - diagnostic precursor 
3 - characteristic pattern 
4 - magma 
5 - stress points 
6 - mantle focus
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What is the hazard management cycle?

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A process in which governments and organisations work together to protect people from natural hazards to avoid or reduce loss of life and property to ensure rapid recovery

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Who are the key players of the hazard management cycle?

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  • All levels of government
  • International organisations
  • Businesses
  • Communities
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Name the four stages of the hazard management cycle

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  • Preparation
  • Response
  • Recovery
  • Mitigation
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Give some examples of preparation

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  • creating evacuation routes
  • raising public awareness
  • developing an early warning system
  • stockpiling aid supplies
  • minimising loss of life and property
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Give some examples of response

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  • search and rescue
  • evacuating people when required
  • restoring critical infrastructure
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Give some examples of recovery

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  • rebuilding homes and other structures
  • reopening schools and businesses
  • repairing and rebuilding infrastructure
  • re-establishing transport routes
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Give some examples of mitigation

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  • Identifying potential hazard and taking steps to reduce the impact
  • Preventing hazard events and minimising their impacts
  • Developing and enforcing building codes
  • Zoning and land use planning
  • Building protective structures
19
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When does mitigation take place?

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Before and after hazard events

20
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When does response take place?

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During hazard events

21
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Describe the Swiss cheese model

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Hazards can be reduced by reducing the number of holes in each layer (number of weaknesses) or reducing the size of the hole in each layer (scale of weakness) to do this:

  • modify hazard event
  • modify vulnerabilty and resilience
  • modify loss
22
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What players are in adaptation, mitigation, response and recovery?

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Planners - adaptation and mitigation
Engineers - mitigation
NGOs - response and recovery
Insurers - recovery

23
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What is the role of NGOs?

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  • Particularly where local govs fail to respond
  • Provide funds, coordinate searches and develop reconstruction plans
  • All stages of hazard management often remain in affected areas for years
24
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What is the role of insurers?

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  • Increasing cost of disasters
  • 2011 global losses cost $54 billion
  • help communities rebuild and repair
  • not an economic priority is some countries
  • Japanese gov and insurance policies work together
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What is the role of communities?

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  • local people first to respond
  • search and rescue
  • remote communities self reliant until aid which can take days
26
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Name four hazard adaptation strategies

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  • Public education
  • Modelling hazard impact
  • Crisis mapping
  • High tech monitoring
27
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What is high tech monitoring?

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GIS, early warning systems, satellite communication technology and mobile phone technology

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Give an example of where high tech monitoring is used

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Japanese government sent texts to everyone in the affected area in 2011 when P waves were detected

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What is crisis mapping?

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Crowd sourced information and satellite imaging to accurately map affected areas

30
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Give an example of where crisis mapping was used?

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2010 - Haiti used an interactive map set us by the people to provide info of what aid was needed

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What is modelling hazard impact?

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Information inputted on a computer model to report effects of a disaster

32
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Give an example of where public education has been used

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Japan - disaster prevention day and children have to practice evacuation routes four times a year

33
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Name four hazard mitigation strategies

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  • Land use mapping
  • Diverting lava flows
  • GIS mapping
  • Hazard resistant design and engineering defences
34
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Give an example of where land use mapping has been used

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Mount Taranaki in New Zealand divided into the likely type and extent of damage so planners can decide the most appropriate land use

35
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Where was GIS mapping used?

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Nepal in 2015 to plot airports

36
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Where has hazard resistant design used?

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Japan - computer controlled weights at the top of buildings

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How can you modify the hazard of an earthquake?

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  • most protection focused on public buildings
  • schools and factories strengthened for people to take shelter there
  • Improved planning frameworks for private housing
  • retrofit programme, demolishing hazardous buildings
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How do you modify vulnerability of an earthquake?

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  • measuring primary and secondary waves to send to local municipality for emergency response
  • strengthen local capacity before and after event
39
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How do you modify loss of an earthquake?

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  • insurance to cover damage
40
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How do you modify the hazard of a tsunami?

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  • Engineering
  • Replanting coasts
  • Limited evidence to prove mangroves dissipate wave energy
41
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How do you modify vulnerability of a tsunami?

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Tsunami Warning System - network of sensors and communications to quickly issue alerts for evacuation

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How do you modify the hazard of a volcano?

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Diverting or cooling lava flows by spraying sea water to prevent land and infrastructure loss

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How do you modify vulnerability of a volcano?

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Easier to predict due to many warning signs e.g. swelling of ground surface, network of sensors

44
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How do you modify the loss of a volcano?

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Insurance