Zusammenfassung der Ressource
How are tectonic hazards
perceived and managed?
- Why people live in potentially
hazardous places
- Hazards are unpredictable
- The level of risk may have
increased since they moved there
- They accept hazards as
an inevitable possibility
- Benefits of living there outway
the hazard consequences
- Unable to move elsewhere
- Management
- Preperation
- Store emergency equipment such as tents, clean water,
food supplies, first aid and search and rescue gear.
- Train specialist workers for a hazardous event.
- Raise public awareness
- Set up warning systems and evacuation plans
- Set up insurance
- Ensure households
have emergency kits
available and ready
- Immediate response
- Coordinate search and rescue
- Establish medical reception
centres
- Establish alternative accommodation
and emergency shelters
- Provide clean water, wood
and sanitary facilities
- Set up communication channels
- Ensure households and businesses
turn off gas supplies to prevent fires
- Longer-term response
- Construct safer buildings
- Improve prediction and monitoring systems
- Carry out land use zoning - the areas that are at most risk use for recreation and low-rise buildings.
- Provide aid and government
support for reconstruction.