SEE: Tectonics: 1.9B
- Created by: MaggieNaylor
- Created on: 12-03-22 13:50
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- 1.9B: Modifying vulnerability
- High-tech monitoring
- Monitoring volcano behaviour and then predicting outcomes
- + Prediction is possible e.g. Pinatubo and evacuation does save lives
- - V. costly, unlikely to be done in LEDCs, does not prevent property damage
- Prediction
- Scientists can predict the impacts of hazard events on communities
- This was used after the Nepal 2015 earthquake. Data was collected about the location of roads, people, and qualities of building. This is now being used to build a picture of the level of vulnerability
- Scientists can also model what the effect would be of different scenarios e.g. a tsunami with/without a sea wall
- Scientists can predict the impacts of hazard events on communities
- Education
- Good education and awareness can reduce vulnerability and prevent hazards from becoming disasters
- Includes: regular emergency practice drills, encouraging creation of emergency preparedness kits
- Good education and awareness can reduce vulnerability and prevent hazards from becoming disasters
- Community preparedness
- Spreading awareness and knowledge about the danger of hazards
- Most effective when organised and coordinated
- Creating a list of vulnerable people, organising evacuation drills, providing first-aid courses
- Most effective when organised and coordinated
- + low cost and can save lives
- 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, elders of Thailand's Moken tribe noticed irregularities in movements of the Bay of Bengal, they evacuated the village, only 1/200 died
- - Doesn't prevent property damage, harder to implement in isolated areas
- Spreading awareness and knowledge about the danger of hazards
- Adaption
- Relocation, moving out of harms way
- This saves lives and property
- However it disrupts homes, and high population density often prevents it
- High-tech monitoring
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