chapter 2.4

• Environmental stewardship


  Actions taken by individuals or groups to protect, care for or responsibly use the environment to pursue environmental and social outcomes
• Environmental stewardship

  • Conserve natural resources
  • Preserve the existing natural environment
  • Repair damages and reverse negative impacts caused by humans to ensure sustainability
• Achieving environmental stewardship

  1. Promoting volunteerism among neighbourhood residents to share knowledge with others on the importance of healthy ecosystems (so that they are more aware of what they can or should do)

  2. Partnership of public and private sectors
• • Disaster risks are the likelihood of damage to properties, injuries and loss of lives from a disaster in a given period of time
  • They are caused by three main factors:

  Nature of hazard–the characteristics of the hazard

  Vulnerability–the conditions determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors, which increase the susceptibility of people and their belongings to the impacts of the hazards

  • Exposure–the situation of people and their belongings located in hazard-prone areas
• • Disaster risk management are the plans and actions taken to prevent new risks from happening, reduce existing risks and manage disaster risks.
  • This also strengthens community resilience.
  • They aim to reduce a neighbourhood’s exposure to hazards and the vulnerability of people and properties to hazards.
  • This can be done by improving residents’ emergency preparedness to respond to natural and technological hazards. Another way is to implement monitoring and warning systems.
• Community resilience


  The ability of a community to resist and adapt to and recover from impacts of disasters in a timely and efficient manner
• Developing community resilience

  Strengthening relationships among residents and raising awareness of potential hazards –they are encouraged to get to know their neighbours so that they can depend on one another during an emergency.
• • Community resilience can also be developed by developing residents’ ability to organise themselves and equip themselves with resources to resist, adapt and recover from a disaster–they can be involved in an inclusive planning process that involves community leaders, civil society organisations and the government . When residents actively participate in such projects, they get a better understanding of the risk adaptation options to communicate to the planners and government.