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Disaster-Midterms-M1
Disaster-Midterms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| three juridical branches | executive, legislative and judicial |
| the islands are located within the “Ring of Fire” between | the Eurasian and Pacific tectonic plates |
| How many active volcanoes are present | 53 |
| a sudden overwhelming and unforeseen event | disaster |
| A common measure is the | number of people killed or affected |
| assess the speed and success of the disaster response | Disaster managers |
| measure physical loss to houses and buildings and loss of production | Economists |
| assess political damage from a poor response by state agencies | Politicians |
| consider the resources required to contain an outbreak of meningitis or Ebola | Health workers |
| disasters such as famine and global climate change could be considered | ‘slow-onset’ disasters |
| keep populations from building in flood-prone areas | Zoning codes |
| were often classified as acts of God or acts of man, a language which persists in the terminology of insurance companies | disasters |
| the worst disaster that can befall populations | Complex Humanitarian Emergencies (CHEs) |
| Natural Disasters | Meteorological Geological Environmental/Biological |
| Man made Disaters | Technological Industrial Warfare |
| are the result of naturally occurring processes that have operated throughout Earth's history | Natural Hazards |
| Natural disasters are often termed an | Act of God |
| result from phenomena beneath the Earth’s surface; earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis and volcanic activity | Geophysical |
| events caused by deviations in the normal water cycle and or overflow of bodies of water caused by wind set | Hydrological |
| events caused by short lived/small to meso scale atmospheric processes; ex. cyclones and storms/wave surges | Meteorological |
| disasters caused by the exposure of living organisms to germs or toxic substances | Biological |
| events caused by long lived/meso to macro scale processes | Climatological |
| disasters caused by industrial companies, either by accident, negligence or incompetence; Chemical and nuclear explosion | Industrial |
| disasters caused by sociopolitical conflicts that escalate into violence; war, intra society conflicts | Warfare |
| This term is used for the circumstances where human activity is increasing the occurrence of certain hazards beyond their natural probabilities. | Socio-natural Disaster |
| three key phases of activity within disaster management | Pre – Disaster During Disaster Post – Disaster |
| Reducing the risk of disasters involves activities, which either reduce or modify the scale and intensity of the threat faced or by improving the conditions of elements at risk | Prevention and Mitigation |
| describe protective or preventive actions that lessen the scale of impact is therefore preferred | Reduction |
| embraces all measures taken to reduce both the effects of the hazard itself and the vulnerable conditions to it in order to reduce the scale of a future disaster. | Mitigation |
| This is the process of monitoring the situation in communities or areas known to be vulnerable to slow onset hazards, and passing the knowledge of the pending hazard to people in harm’s way | Early Warning |
| The process embraces measures that enable governments, communities and individuals to respond rapidly to disaster situations to cope with them effectively | |
| This refers to the “real-time event of a hazard occurring and affecting elements at risk | The Disaster impact |
| This refers to the first stage response to any calamity, which include for examples such as setting up control rooms | Response |
| used to describe the activities that encompass the three overlapping phases of emergency relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction. | Recovery |
| includes the provision of temporary public utilities and housing as interim measures to assist long-term recovery. | Rehabilitation |
| attempts to return communities to improved pre- disaster functioning. It includes such as the replacement of buildings; infrastructure and lifeline facilities | Reconstruction |
| s an ongoing activity. Long-term prevention/disaster reduction measures | Development |
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