Questions to assess vulnerability How likely is an extreme natural event and will it affect people How vulnerable are people to natural hazards To what extent are societies able to cope with severe and immediate disasters ID: 439917
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Characteristics of environments that make them vulnerable to extreme natural eventsSlide2
Questions to assess vulnerability
+ How likely is an extreme natural event and will it affect people?
+ How vulnerable are people to natural hazards?
+ To what extent are societies able to cope with severe and immediate disasters?
+ Does society take precautionary measures against anticipated future natural hazards?Slide3
Identify five countries/regions at high risk.
Identify five countries/regions at low risk.
Explain why these countries/regions are high and low risk.Slide4
What do you notice about these two lists? Is there anything that surprises you?
High Risk
Low Risk
Vanuatu
Qatar
Tonga
Malta
Philippines
Saudi Arabia
Solomon Islands
Iceland
Guatemala
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Kiribati
Timor-Leste
Sweden
Costa Rica
Finland
Cambodia
Estonia
El Salvador
NorwaySlide5
Risk index maps
world’s disaster hot spots
Read through the article and
highlight ideas about the
natural
and
cultural
features of environments that can make them vulnerable to extreme natural events.
What is the point of having a global risk index? What does it do?
What is the
difference
between the
Haiti EQ
and the
Chilean
one? Why did fewer people die in Chile?Slide6
How has vulnerability been assessed?
Match the description to the characteristic on the left.
Exposure –
Susceptibility –
Level of Development-
Coping –
Adaptation –
likelihood
of suffering harm
reduce negative effects
May increase or decrease the amounts of casualties
long term strategies for changeto extreme natural eventsSlide7
Assessing Canterbury’s vulnerability to an extreme natural event
What’s Exposed
What’s Susceptible
How do they
Cope?
How do we Adapt?
Population
Environment
Public
infrastructureHousing conditions
Nutrition
Poverty and dependents
Wealth
Government
Disaster preparedness and early warning
Medical services
Social networks
Insurances
Education and research
Gender equity
Environmental status
Projects and strategies
Investment