HGP252 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mangakino, Indian Ocean, Absorptive Capacity
19 Sep 2016
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Vulnerability of indigenous peoples (ontario): poverty, low housing quality (plus shortage), high population growth, health issues (especially mental health), lack of local institutions and emergency preparedness, average income is halved compared to the rest of the canadian population. Indigenous knowledge and hazards: new zealand (maori), mangakino - dangerous stream (prone to sudden stream ow rises), ongarue - place of shaking, canada (blackfoot and k"tunaxa), turtle mountain - the mountain that moves (frank"s slide). Passed down from generation to generation orally, they developed a culture of prevention. Antecedent conditions: inherent vulnerability and inherent resilience, vulnerability and resilience overlap, preexisting conditions in a community. Event and coping responses: event characteristics, coping actions - undertaken in advance to facilitate an effective response. Absorptive capacity: the ability of the community to absorb event impacts by using predetermined coping responses after an event occurs. !2: actions to help the community to recover and better handle future events.
