typhoon haiyan
- Created by: anonymollolohsh
- Created on: 18-06-22 15:05
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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
- coastal population
- 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
- shortages of food, water and aid
- ferries / flights disrupted - slowed aid = more deaths
- 6 million lost source of income
- schools, hospitals, agriculture
- looting and crime in tacloban
- overall 14 million effected
- 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
- primary effects
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