Long and Short Term Responses to Hazards
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- Created on: 04-02-17 11:57
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- 3.1.5 Short and Long Term Responses to Hazards
- Park Model
- Rehabilitation Phase
- Short / long term
- More complex than relief
- May last for several months
- Efforts are made to restore physical and community structures
- At least temporarily
- Relief Phase
- Immediate response
- Short term
- Hours and days after the event
- Saving lives and property
- Could could from...
- Emergency services
- International
- Internal
- Individuals
- Military
- Community
- Government
- NGO's (Oxfam, MSF)
- Emergency services
- Teams from outside immediate help area
- Help with search, rescue and care
- Urgent medical supplies, research equipment, clothing and food
- Support may be international
- E.G MSF
- Help with search, rescue and care
- E.G Pinatubo June 15, 1991
- Evacuation was helped by the US
- E.G Haiti 2010, Port-au-Prince
- Medical care through make shift hospitals by MSF
- 5,000 operations
- Medical care through make shift hospitals by MSF
- Immediate response
- Re-construction, mitigation and preparedness Phase
- Permanent changes
- These will restore quality of life and economic stability
- To pre-distater level or better
- These will restore quality of life and economic stability
- Long term response
- Include mitigation and preparedness strategie
- Reduce vulnerablity
- Permanent changes
- Rehabilitation Phase
- Relief is...
- The set of activities implemented after the impact of a disaster
- To asses the needs, reduce the suffering limit, the spread and the consequences of the disaster
- Open the way to rehabilitation
- To asses the needs, reduce the suffering limit, the spread and the consequences of the disaster
- The set of activities implemented after the impact of a disaster
- Resilience is...
- How able a community is to adapt and recover
- Emergency is...
- A state in which normal procedures are suspended
- And extra-ordinary measures are taken in order to avert or deal with the deal
- Rehabilitation and reconstruction actions include
- Repairs and any re-construction of lifelines and buildings
- Buildings may have temporary multifunctional uses
- Measures to turn around post earthquake economic downturns
- Interest rates down
- Encourage spending
- Ensure jobs are available
- Interest rates down
- Financial assistance after losses
- Government of World Bank
- Recovery period is also good time to adopt new mitigation measures
- E.G Mileti 1999
- Earthquake resistant building environment
- Prevention and education measures
- E.G Haiti 2010
- UN and other charities educated locals
- Technology to monitor further risks
- E.G Haiti 2010
- Mitigation is...
- Action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something
- E.G Mileti 1999
- Repairs and any re-construction of lifelines and buildings
- Data
- E.G Haiti 2010-2012 Cholera outbreak
- Nearly 600,000 cases and 8,000 died
- MSF helped with treatment of 9,100 cases
- Nearly 600,000 cases and 8,000 died
- E.G Kobe, 1995 (HIC)
- Graph to show the repair of lifelines
- Railways, highways and ports done as temporary fixes
- Electric power would need to be done in order for other things to happen
- Telecom would need repairing for organisation
- Repair water sources to prevent diseases
- Graph for LIC would be very different
- Would take much longer to restore lifelines
- Graph to show the repair of lifelines
- E.G Haiti 2010-2012 Cholera outbreak
- Park Model
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