TYPHOON HAIYAN

• happened in the Phillipines
• 314mph winds
• storm brought 400mm of rainfall
• storm surges were 5m high
• life expectancy of Phillipines - 69 years
• HDI : 0.71 (UK is 0.93)
• the Phillipines is a NEE - in 2010 : 60% of jobs were in the service industry
• the Phillipines is an archipelago in South-East Asia - west of the Pacific Ocean
• economic impacts

  • 30,000 fishing boats destroyed
  • 33 million coconut trees destroyed
  • 1/3 of agricultural land used to grow rice in Phillipines = destroyed
• social impacts

  • 90% of Tacloban City destroyed
  • 7000 deaths
  • widespread looting
  • 4.1 million people made homeless
• environmental impacts

  • coral reef = destroyed
  • fishing water was contaminated by a 800,000 litre oil leak and fishing had to stop
  • seawater was contaminated
  • all trees were uprooted = loss of biodiversity , more surface runoff , less interception
• Talcoban City Convention Center first floor was submerged and 1000 people died
• 1000 police reported for duty communications - due to being a poor country and communication covering over 7000 islands. Couldn't do as much help as required
• Clean up operations:

  • 70/2500 workers cleaned up , rest = killed
  • detectives from Switzerland were called in to identify bodies and to stop spread of disease
• Oxfam donated 30,000 fishing boats
• damaged coconut trees were used in construction of new homes - more resistant
• 400 tonnes of rice seeds distributed to farmers
• Build Bark Better Scheme

  • construction of climate resistant houses to withstand tropical storms
  • set up employment scheme
  • used hazard mapping