Hazard Risk Management

• Risk management:

  • aims to protect the community and environment
  • to reduce the impact and stop it from reaching disaster level
• 3 phases of disaster management:

  1. pre-disaster planning: mitigation
  2. during disaster: response
  3. post-disaster: recovery
• 4 factors that influence vunrabilty:

  • wealth and affluence
  • education
  • early warning systems in place
  • health and age of population
• Mitigation:

  • actions we take to eliminate or minimise the risk from a hazard
  • sometimes most vunerable areas are 'zones' to eliminate further risk