Hurricane Aila
- Created by: Margret from Yorkshire
- Created on: 13-04-19 15:56
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- Hurricane Aila
- Effects
- Social
- Women most effected (they are rural landless labourers)
- 190 killed
- 750 000 made homeless (homes destroyed by floods or winds)
- 3.5 million affected (losing their homes or livelihoods)
- Environmental
- 3 metre storm surge submerged and destroyed several villages
- Delta flooded with salt water killing crops
- 59 000 animals killed (including cattle) depriving families of food or income
- Economic
- 90% of those displaced were from Bangladesh's lowest income group
- Over half of the earth's embankments in Southern Asia build to hold back floods and protect people were washed away
- Social
- Risks
- Environmental
- 80% of Bangladesh is less than 10m above sea level
- Increased risk of global flooding
- 3 of the world's largest rivers meet in Bangladesh creating the world's largest floodplain
- 80% of Bangladesh is less than 10m above sea level
- Social
- High population density
- If it flooded harder to evacuate people
- High population density
- Economic
- Less economically developed
- Not enough money to move people around or provide aid
- $2100 GDP per capita
- 30% of population below poverty line
- Less economically developed
- Environmental
- Management techniques
- Weather forecasting
- Manages all the risks because it is informing (e.g. wind,storm surge, flood)
- Bangladesh's Meteorologica-l Department issues weather forecasts and warnings on TV and radio
- Satellite technology
- Manages the risk of not being able to track the cyclone and its formation
- 3 radar stations transmit live updates
- Warning and evacuation strategies
- Manages the risk of people being uninformed
- Since Cyclone Bhola (killed 300 000) government has developed an early warning system enabling coastal communities to be evacuated, they spread the information through:
- Runs awareness campaigns
- Posters
- Leaflets
- Film shows
- Demonstation-s
- Storm-surge defences
- Manages the risk of storm-surge and flooding
- Invested heavily in evacuation shelters and safety refuges
- 3500 cyclone shelters in coastal districts some taking up to 8000 people
- Embankments built to protect against storm surges
- Weather forecasting
- Effects
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