Responses to Hazards 3.1.5 - Reduce the Loss
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- Created on: 04-02-17 10:10
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- Responses to Hazards 3.1.5 Reduce Loss
- Aid and Relief
- Internal or international
- Short or long term
- MSF is humanitarian action
- Focused on medical assistance
- Helps with providing tents, safe water and latrines
- E.G Japan 2011
- Treated patients
- Psychological support for people
- Set up evacuation centres
- Treated patients
- E.G Haiti 2010
- Largest repossess by MSF in 40 years
- 3,400 staff and 4 mobile clinics
- By the end of June 2010...
- More than 26,840 tents
- Approx. 2,800 rolls of plastic sheeting
- Close to 85,000 relief supply kits
- By the end of June 2010...
- Aid
- E.G Pakistan Earthquake in 2005
- Army helped with emergency relief
- International help
- UK sent sniffer dogs to help with search and rescue
- E.G Kobe, Japan
- Police shovel the debris in the Nagata area
- In search of any bodies underneath
- Police shovel the debris in the Nagata area
- E.G Balakot, Pakistan
- Building and rehabilitation
- E.G Gujarat, India in 2001
- Oxfam helped with the relief
- Trained to build earthquake and cyclone proof houses
- In 200 remote villages
- Oxfam helped with the relief
- E.G Pakistan Earthquake in 2005
- Crowd sourcing
- Community of connected volunteers
- Using local people through the internet
- To help access those in need
- Using local people through the internet
- Crisis Mapping
- Live mapping systems for an event
- Shows the losses
- Tweak the Tweet
- System of de-codifying tweets
- They can be picked up automatically by relief agencies
- E.G Voluntweeters in Haiti 2010
- Over 3,000 TtT tweets and 7 million tweets
- System of de-codifying tweets
- E.G Japan 2011
- Within 1 hour using Goggle's 'Person Finder' Website
- Grew to include over 450,000 records
- Crisis Mapping using Crowd sourcing
- Within 1 hour using Goggle's 'Person Finder' Website
- Community of connected volunteers
- Insurance
- HIC strategy
- E.G California Earthquake insurance
- Southern California is a disaster area
- President Bill Clinton declared residents eligible for federal assistance
- Low income residents qualify up to $12,000 for a disaster grant
- California has a state insurance scheme
- All resident have to pay taxes to ensure state funds
- Southern California is a disaster area
- Aid and Relief
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