ATS1310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Natural Disaster, Natural Hazard, Ecosystem Services
17 May 2018
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ATS1310 – Extreme Earth
Lecture 1: Introduction
- Disasters are
o Biophysical
▪ Natural, geological, climatological, material
o Social
▪ Historical, expensive, expose societal fractures
▪ Rescue efforts, institutions and policies
o Personal
▪ Human, stories, experiences, emotions
- Who cares?
o Govt. (planning, budgeting, emergency, international relations)
o Insurance Industry
o Aid organisations
o Food security + Agriculture
o Energy + Water services
o Healthcare
o Military (recovery/aid)
- DEFINITION: Any natural (environmental) process that has the potential to affect people,
their health, livelihoods, and settlements, in ways that are damaging
- When hazards become disasters
o Monetary thresholds
o Exceeding coping capacity
- HAZARDS are NOT ALWAYS DISASTERS
o Resource management (prescribed burns)
o Ecosystem services
o Tourism (e.g. volcano)
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Document Summary
Disasters are: biophysical, natural, geological, climatological, material, social, historical, expensive, expose societal fractures, rescue efforts, institutions and policies, personal, human, stories, experiences, emotions. Who cares: govt. (planning, budgeting, emergency, international relations) Insurance industry: aid organisations, food security + agriculture, energy + water services, healthcare, military (recovery/aid) Definition: any natural (environmental) process that has the potential to affect people, their health, livelihoods, and settlements, in ways that are damaging. When hazards become disasters: monetary thresholds, exceeding coping capacity. Hazards are not always disasters: resource management (prescribed burns, ecosystem services, tourism (e. g. volcano) Media reports on natural disasters: can"t be up to date constantly because very difficult to accurately document. Disaster definition: (cid:498)a disaster occurs when a significant number of vulnerable people experience a hazard and suffer severe damage in a way that means recovery is unlikely without external aid(cid:499, hazard + vulnerability = disaster. Disaster risk reduction: reduce hazard (protection, reduce vulnerability (adaption, reduce disaster (mitigation)
