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    The Human Response To Hazards

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    The document discusses the human response to hazards. It notes that responses can range from individual to international levels and depend on factors like hazard type, past experience, economic status, and technology. There are three main responses: modifying the hazard event through prevention or control strategies; modifying vulnerability through prediction, warning, preparedness, and land use; and modifying losses through relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction, and insurance. The document also provides guidance on textbook chapters about different hazards and response strategies.

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    The document discusses the human response to hazards. It notes that responses can range from individual to international levels and depend on factors like hazard type, past experience, economic status, and technology. There are three main responses: modifying the hazard event through prevention or control strategies; modifying vulnerability through prediction, warning, preparedness, and land use; and modifying losses through relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction, and insurance. The document also provides guidance on textbook chapters about different hazards and response strategies.

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    The document discusses the human response to hazards. It notes that responses can range from individual to international levels and depend on factors like hazard type, past experience, economic status, and technology. There are three main responses: modifying the hazard event through prevention or control strategies; modifying vulnerability through prediction, warning, preparedness, and land use; and modifying losses through relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction, and insurance. The document also provides guidance on textbook chapters about different hazards and response strategies.

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    The Human Response to Hazards

    People respond to hazards to try to reduce the risk posed to human life and
    possessions. This response can range from an individual level to international level.
    Responses chosen (if any – time, resources or knowledge could be lacking) will
    depend on:
     Type of hazard
     Past experience of the hazard
     Economic status
     Technological resources
     Hazard perceptions
     Knowledge of the options available
     Social and political framework

    There are three main responses:


    1. Modify the Event – these are management strategies that aim to control the
    physical processes ideally by preventing them (unrealistic), controlling the impact
    (e.g. alleviating floods by diverting water elsewhere), or by hazard resistant design
    (protect people from the impacts).

    2. Modify vulnerability – this aims to change people’s attitudes and behaviour


    towards hazards by prediction (not always possible or accurate) and warning (so
    people can prepare and/or evacuate); community preparedness (public education,
    evacuation procedures and emergency relief); and land-use planning (prevent new
    development from occupying hazard areas).

    3. Modify the loss – people simply accept the losses caused by the hazard (rarely
    acceptable, more common to share losses). Losses can be shared through aid for
    relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction and through insurance (MEDCs) to
    spread the cost.

    Useful pages in textbooks:


    Topic Natural Hazards Hazards and Responses
    Yellow or Green book Red or Pink book
    Defining hazards or p.1-6 p. 4 or p.6
    Classification or p.8 p. 12 or p.10
    Response (general) p. 23 or p. 20
    Response to earthquakes Or p.49, 64-70 p. 47 or p.39
    Response to volcanoes Or p.74 p. 71 or 62
    Response to tsunamis p. 88 or p.74
    Response to tropical p. 100 or p.85
    cyclones
    Response to landslides Or p.86 p. 129 or p.106
    Response to avalanches p. 129 or p.107
    Response to drought Or p.29 p.115 or p.95
    Study skills Or p. 124
    Possible questions

     Describe in detail one prevention scheme with which you are familiar.
     With reference to a range of hazards prevention strategies you have studied,
    evaluate their success.
     Discuss the ways in which people respond to the threat of hazards and, with
    reference to one hazard, explain how and why the response to it may vary.
     Discuss the view that it is not possible to prevent hazards but only lessen their
    impacts.
     People’s responses to hazards are related to levels of economic development.
    Examine this statement with reference to two contrasting hazard types.
     With reference to a range of hazards, assess the success of prediction
    techniques in minimising their impacts on people.
     To what extent does hazard perception affect hazard management?
     To what extent is the human response to hazards affected by variations in the
    economic resources available?
     With reference to two contrasting hazard types, examine the extent to which
    prediction can reduce their impacts.
     Examine the reasons why people respond to hazards in a variety of ways.
     Examine how people’s responses are affected by the frequency and
    magnitude of natural hazard events.
     Examine how people’s responses are affected by the type and location of
    natural hazard events.
     To what extent do human responses to hazards depend on
    research/understanding/frequency/location/economic environment?

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