How can hazards be managed to reduce their impacts?

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  • Created on: 29-05-14 12:08
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  • How can hazards be managed to reduce their impacts?
    • Types of management
      • Preventative measures
      • Modification measures
      • Mitigation measures
      • Preparedness measures
      • Respond and recover
      • Economic offset measures
      • Redevelopment
    • Factors that effect hazard management
      • Geographical scale of hazard
      • Magnitude of hazard
      • Onset speed/ warning of hazard
      • Predictability of hazard
      • Variability/ randomness of hazard
      • Human understanding of hazard
      • Economic impact of hazard
      • Danger of hazard
    • Physical adjustments
      • Building and construction to withstand hazards
      • Avoiding development on sites where hazards are likely
      • Predicting hazards
      • Preventing or altering characteristics of a hazard
    • Social adjustments
      • Land-use zoning
      • Public awareness through education
      • Efficient and effective warning systems
      • Preparedness programmes
      • Spreading economic loss
      • Reforming communities so they are less vulnerable to natural hazards
    • Managing earthquakes
      • Land-use zoning
      • Building design
      • Stabilisation of steep slopes
      • Redevelopment of vulnerable sites
      • Improvements in warning and predictioon
    • Eldfell eruption, Iceland
      • Jan 1973
      • 5300 residents of Heimaey Island evacuated
      • Sea water sprayed onto advancing lava flows for 6 months
      • 43 pumps and 30km of pipe used to deliver 1 cubic meters of sea water per second
      • 6 million cubic meters of water in total
  • Managing earthquakes
    • Land-use zoning
    • Building design
    • Stabilisation of steep slopes
    • Redevelopment of vulnerable sites
    • Improvements in warning and predictioon

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