How can hazards be managed to reduce their impacts?
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- Created on: 29-05-14 12:08
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- How can hazards be managed to reduce their impacts?
- Types of management
- Preventative measures
- Modification measures
- Mitigation measures
- Preparedness measures
- Respond and recover
- Economic offset measures
- Redevelopment
- Factors that effect hazard management
- Geographical scale of hazard
- Magnitude of hazard
- Onset speed/ warning of hazard
- Predictability of hazard
- Variability/ randomness of hazard
- Human understanding of hazard
- Economic impact of hazard
- Danger of hazard
- Physical adjustments
- Building and construction to withstand hazards
- Avoiding development on sites where hazards are likely
- Predicting hazards
- Preventing or altering characteristics of a hazard
- Social adjustments
- Land-use zoning
- Public awareness through education
- Efficient and effective warning systems
- Preparedness programmes
- Spreading economic loss
- Reforming communities so they are less vulnerable to natural hazards
- Managing earthquakes
- Land-use zoning
- Building design
- Stabilisation of steep slopes
- Redevelopment of vulnerable sites
- Improvements in warning and predictioon
- Eldfell eruption, Iceland
- Jan 1973
- 5300 residents of Heimaey Island evacuated
- Sea water sprayed onto advancing lava flows for 6 months
- 43 pumps and 30km of pipe used to deliver 1 cubic meters of sea water per second
- 6 million cubic meters of water in total
- Types of management
- Managing earthquakes
- Land-use zoning
- Building design
- Stabilisation of steep slopes
- Redevelopment of vulnerable sites
- Improvements in warning and predictioon
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