1.8B Hazard management cycle

• Natural hazard

  1. Response

  • Immediate help in the form of rescue to save lives and aid to keep people alive, emergency shelter, food and water. 

  1. Recovery

  • ​Rebuilding infrastructure and services, rehabilitating injured (physically and mentally) people and their lives

  1. Mitigation

  • Acting to reduce the scale of the next disaster: land-use zoning, hazard-resistant buildings and infrastructure. 

  1. Preparedness

  • Community education and resilience building including how to act before, during and after a disaster, prediction, warning and evacuation technology and systems
• Hazard mitigation = Strategies ment to avoid, delay or prevent natural hazards
• hazard adaptation = strategies designed to reduce the impact of hazards
• Mitigation strategies:

  • Land-use zoning
  • diverting lava flows
  • GIS mapping
  • Hazard resistant buildings
• Hazard adaptation statergies:

  • high-tech monitoring
  • crisis mapping
  • modelling hazard impact
  • public education