Development and Governance: Disaster Impact and Vulnerability
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- Development and Governance: Disaster Impact and Vulnerability
- Development, Disaster Impact and Vulnerability
- People's health and nutritional status correlates with their ability to survive disruptions
- People who are undernourished and sick are at risk of disease
- Elements of Development that Relate to Vulnerability and Disaster Risk
- Economic
- Creation of wealth
- Improvement of quality of life
- Social
- Health
- Education
- Housing
- Employment opportunities
- Environmental
- Duty of care for resource usage and distribution
- Politicial
- Human rights
- Political freedom
- Democracy
- Economic
- Development and Cross-cutting Factors
- Drought, violence and armed conflict may turn natural hazards into disasters
- Risk of diseases increase
- Cross-cutting factors may be internal or external
- Internal factors are political
- External factors are long term and hard to control
- The "Risk-Poverty Nexus"
- Asset inequality
- Housing
- Security of tenure
- Agricultural productivity
- Goods and savings
- Inequality of entitlements
- Unequal access to public services and welfare systems
- Inequalities in the application of law
- Political Inequality
- Social status inequality
- The ability to secure income and access services
- Asset inequality
- Governance and Hazard Vulnerability
- Weak political organisation and political corruption create a vulnerable population
- Population density
- Geographic isolation
- Degree of urbanisation
- Interactions of Governance
- Economic
- Decisions that affect economic activities
- Relationships with other economies
- Political
- Policies such as national disaster reduction and planning
- Administrative
- Functioning enforcement of building codes, land use planning, environmental risk, human vulnerability monitoring and safety standards reduce risk
- Economic
- Definition of Governance
- Economic activity globally
- Rise of neo-liberal ideology
- Spread of information
- The Swiss Cheese Model of Disaster Causation
- Used in risk management and analysis
- Barriers put in place to minimise accidents
- In the model the layers of cheese represent safety systems and the holes are weaknesses in each defence
- When many weakness line up disaster strikes
- Development, Disaster Impact and Vulnerability
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