Responses to Hazards 3.1.5 

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  • Responses to Hazards 3.1.5
    • Disaster Risk Reduction
      • This is a preventative disaster management approach
      • Relief phase involves reactive measures
        • Deal with critical immediate needs, emergency response to life and death
      • Vulnerability, loss and disruption are minimised
        • Through technical, social and economic measures
          • Pre-dispositionedplans and community capacity
            • Building for improving development
      • Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA)
        • In 2005 the World Conference on Disaster Risk  Reduction (DRR)
          • Agreed on the HFA to prioritise DRR on a global scale
          • In Kobe, Hyogo and Japan
        • There aims were to cover these 5 points
          • Use knowledge, innovation and education
            • To build awareness and a culture  of safety and resilience
          • Identity, assess and monitor disaster risks
          • Strength disaster preparedness for effective response at all levels
          • Make DRR  priority on a national and local level
          • Reduce the underlying risk factors
    • Hazard management cycle
      • 3. Mitigation
        • Prepare for next event
      • 2. Recovery
        • Re-construction to reduce loss
      • 4. Preparedness
        • Technology
        • Building design
        • Hazard maps and evacuation drills
      • 1. Response
        • Short term
        • Temporary measures to reduce impact
      • Highlights attempt from governments, businesses and other stake holders to...
        • Reduce the losses
        • Achieve a rapid and effective recovery
        • Provide a rapid response to victims
      • Attempts to minimise the drop and speed the recovery in the quality of life
        • As shown in Park Model
      • Four phases don't work in isolation but can overlap
        • Size can differ depending upon severity of event  and development of country
          • E.G HIC
            • Quicker recovery
            • Have better response
            • Well prepared
            • Better mitigation
    • E.G Haiti 2010 Response
      • Three days after MSF...
        • Fix life lines
        • Supplies for survivors
        • Bury the dead
        • Organise emergency shelters
        • Found coordination committee
        • Stabilise damaged buildings
        • Search for survivors
        • Set up emergency hospital
      • Vulnerable because...
        • Lots of political conflict and an unstable government
          • Government has been given financial incentives to leave Port-au-Prince
        • Tourism has dropped
        • NGO's don't know how land belongs to
          • So cannot build homes
      • Oxfam helped with
        • Process of re-construction  and education

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