typhoon haiyan

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  • phillipines
    • background
      • LIC / LEDC
      • experiences volcanoes and earthquakes
      • $2700 per person annum
        • world average $13100
      • experiences the worlds hottest temps
        • increase due to climate change??
      • over 7000 islands
      • highly populated
    • vulnerability
      • coastal population
        • first to be effected
        • 60% of people live on low lying coats
          • storm surge surpassed 7 meters and rolled over low lying islands
      • underdevelopment
        • 40% on less than $2 a day
      • population density is hard to evacuate
      • deforestation
        • roots cant bind ground - mudslides
        • few obstacles to slow wind/storm surges
    • typhoon haiyan 2013
      • primary effects
        • 10000 fatalties
        • 30000 fishing boats destroyed
        • 2 million homeless
        • strong winds, heavy rains - destroyed buildings, powerlines, crops
        • airports, ports, services destroyed
        • 400mm rainfall - flooding
      • secondary effects
        • overall 14 million effected
          • shortages of food, water  and aid
            • effected health and sanitation - disease
          • rain fall coaused landslides, roads blocked
            • slowed relief efforts
        • ferries / flights disrupted - slowed aid = more deaths
        • 6 million lost source of income
          • schools, hospitals, agriculture
        • looting and crime in tacloban
      • emergency responses
        • WHO, NGOs - redcross
        • relief efforts slow, supplies in wrong place (20% of people who needed it got it)
        • hospitals shut down - damaged, low supplied
        • government response was slow
          • 5 days without water or food
        • economy relies on farming, fishing and tourism for income - ALL DESTROYED
        • oxfam - rice seed to farmers
        • save the children - tents for education
        • 'cash for work' schemes
        • social media - find families
      • future planning
        • plant mangroves - sustainable
        • improve satellite % computer monitoring
        • people still remain vulnerable
          • cant afford resistant buildings
        • new schools with beams  which can withstand winds
        • CLIMATE CHANGE - major issue to be considered
          • higher winds and heavier rainfall

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