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TURNING 2011’S DISASTERS INTO DISASTER RESILIENCE EDUCATIONAL SURGES PART 1

TURNING 2011’S DISASTERS INTO DISASTER RESILIENCE EDUCATIONAL SURGES PART 1 . Dr. Walter Hays, Global Alliance For Disaster Reduction . GOAL: COMMUNITY DISASTER RESILIENCE . FLOODS. USE DISASTERS INFO TO IMPROVE COMMUNITY RESILIENCE . SEVERE WIND STORMS. EARTHQUAKES.

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TURNING 2011’S DISASTERS INTO DISASTER RESILIENCE EDUCATIONAL SURGES PART 1

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  1. TURNING 2011’S DISASTERS INTO DISASTER RESILIENCE EDUCATIONAL SURGESPART 1 Dr. Walter Hays, Global Alliance For Disaster Reduction

  2. GOAL: COMMUNITY DISASTER RESILIENCE FLOODS USE DISASTERS INFO TO IMPROVE COMMUNITY RESILIENCE SEVERE WIND STORMS EARTHQUAKES INCREASE TECHNICAL AND POLITICL CAPACITY OF COMMUNITY TO COPE DROUGHTS INCREASE OWNERSHIP AND USE OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE LANDSLIDES WILDFIRES VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS TSUNAMIS GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE TECHNOLOGICAL HAZARDS

  3. EXAMPLES OF 2011’s DISASTERS

  4. NOTABLE DISASTERS IN 2011 FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA NEW KNOWLEDGE FOR COMMUNITY DISASTER RISK REDUCTION EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI IN JAPAN WILDFIRES IN ARIZONA AND TEXAS CATALYSTS FOR CHANGE HURRICANE IRENE AND TROPIAL STORM LEE FLOODS ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI River SUPER TORNADO OUTBREAK VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS

  5. A DISASTER is --- --- the set of failures that overwhelm the capability of a community torespond without external help  when three continuums: 1)  people, 2) community (i.e., a set of habitats, livelihoods, and social constructs), and 3) complex events (e.g., floods, earthquakes, ...,) intersect at a point in space and time.

  6. BENEFITS OF AN EDUCATIONAL SURGE • Transforms information and experience gained from a disaster into knowledge and technology for educational surges that can be used to make the stricken community disaster resilient.

  7. BUILDING CAPACITY FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE • Identify the gaps in community capacity in the four critical elements of the solution. • Concentrate resources on filling the gaps in the four critical elements of the solution and start creating turning points for change.

  8. HAZARD MAPS • INVENTORY • VULNERABILITY • LOCATION • BEST POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR: • PREPAREDNESS • PROTECTION • RESPONSE & RECOVERY DISASTER RESILIENCE RISK ASSESSMENT ACCEPTABLE RISK RISK UNACCEPTABLE RISK FOCUS ON FOUR CRITICAL AREAS STRICKEN COMMUNITY DATA BASES AND INFORMATION HAZARDS: GROUND SHAKING GROUND FAILURE SURFACE FAULTING TECTONIC DEFORMATION TSUNAMI RUN UP AFTERSHOCKS

  9. CRITICAL E;EMENTS FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE • PREPAREDNESS (READY FOR ANY COMPLEX EVENT) • PROTECTION (BUILD ESSENTIAL AND CRITICAL FACILITIES TO WITHSTAND)

  10. COMMON AGENDA FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE • RESPONSE (SAVING LIVES, AND ENSURING CONTINUITY) • RECOVERY (BOUNCING BACK QUICKLY AND RESUMING LIFE AVAIN)

  11. BENEFITS OF AN EDUCATIONAL SURGE • Intensifies effortsto protect essential (schools) and critical (hospitals, dams, transportation, systems, and power plants) facilities.

  12. EDUCATIONAL SURGES CREATE TURNING POINTS FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE ALL SECTORS OF SOCIETY INFORMED IGNORANCE TO ENLIGHTENMENT EDUCATIONAL SURGES WILL INCREASE KNOWLEDGE OF A COM-MUNITY’S RISK APATHY TO EMPOWERMENT BOUNDARIES TO NETWORKS STATUS QUO TO GOOD POLITICAL DECISIONS

  13. TURNING POINTS FOR CHANGE NEW RESOURCES NEW DELIVERY MECHANISMS EDUCATIONAL SURGES WILL RESULT IN … NEW PROFESSIONAL LINKAGES NEW LEGISLATIVE MANDATES NEW DIALOGUE ON BUILDING A CULTURE OF DISASTER-RISK REDUCTION

  14. EDUCATIONAL SURGE ADD VALUE INCREASE AWARENESS AN EDUCATIONAL SURGE WILL INCREASE UNDERSTANDING INCREASE POLITICAL WILL BUILD EQUITY

  15. BENEFITS OF EDUCATIONAL SURGES EXPAND CAPABILITY IMPROVE DELIVERY MECHANISMS EDUCATIONAL SURGES OVERCOME UNIVERSAL BARRIERS CREATE TURNING POINTS OF CHANGE INCREASE COMMUNITY DISASTER RESILIENCE

  16. THE THREE CONTINUUMS OF EVERY DISASTER PEOPLE COMMUNITY COMPLEX EVENTS

  17. A DISASTER IMPACTS ALL SOCIETAL ELEMENTS

  18. Single- or multiple-event natural hazards that, (for various reasons), cause extreme levels of morbidity, mortality, homelessness, joblessness, economic losses, and environmental impacts. COMPLEX EVENTS THAT CAN CAUSE A DISASTER

  19. FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 10, 2010 – JANUARY 11, 2011

  20. LOCATION MAP

  21. CAUSES OF RISK LOSS OF FUNCTION OF STRUCTURES IN FLOODPLAIN INUNDATION INTERACTION WITH HAZARDOUS MATERIALS STRUCTURAL/CONTENTS DAMAGE FROM WATER FLOODS WATER BORNE DISEASES (HEALTH PROBLEMS) CASE HISTORIES EROSION AND MUDFLOWS CONTAMINATION OF GROUND WATER

  22. GREAT QUEENSLAND FLOOD INUNDATES 22 TOWNS, DISPLACES 200,000, KILLS 35, AND CAUSES LOSSES OF OVER $5 BILLION IN AUSTRALIA

  23. Catastrophic flooding in Queensland was fed by one of the most intense La Nina weather events in decades.

  24. 75 PERCENT OF QUEENSLAND STATE DECLARED A DISASTER ZONE

  25. RECORD FLOODING IN AUSTRALIA:NEW SOUTH WALESROCKHAMPTONTOOWOOMBABRISBANE DECEMBER 10, 2010 – JANUARY 11, 2011

  26. QUEENSLAND: WIDESPREAD IMPACTS • Socioeconomic impacts for 200,000 people included: evacuations, industrial slow-down, aplague of snakes and crocodiles, health care problems, missing persons, deaths, and losses of 5+ Billion.

  27. WORST FLOODING IN A DECADE REACHES CITY AFTER CITY Floodwaters drained slowly towards the country's northeast coast, filling bulging rivers and inundating at least 22 towns and cities in the cattle and fruit and vegetable farming region.

  28. THE FIRST PHASE OF RECORD FLOODING BEGAN IN DECEMBER DECEMBER 10, 2010

  29. DECEMBER STORMS BROUGHT HEAVY RAINFALL: DEC. 17, 2010

  30. NEW SOUTH WALES: 45 FLOOD DISASTER ZONES

  31. TOWN OF BUNDABERG INUNDATED

  32. ROCKHAMPTON BECAME AN ISLAND:JANUARY 3, 2011

  33. INUNDATED AIRPORT RUNWAYS: JANUARY 3, 2011

  34. FLEEING WITH POSSESSIONS: JANUARY 3, 2011

  35. TRADITIONAL SANDBAGGING HAD LIMITED VALUE

  36. FITZROY RIVER PEAKED AT 9.2 M: JANUARY 6, 2011

  37. FLOOD WATERS CRIPPLE COAL INDUSTRY: JAN 7, 2011

  38. THE THIRD PHASE OF FLOODING WAS TRIGGERED BY FLASH FLOODING JANUARY 11, 2011

  39. QUEENSLAND: WIDESPREAD IMPACTS • Socioeconomic impacts for about 200 thousand people included: industrial slow-down, evacuations, a plague of snakes and crocodiles, and health care problems associated with evacuation and water-borne diseases.

  40. INUNDATED ROADWAYS SHUT DOWN TRUCKS

  41. TOWN OF THEODORE: FLOODED

  42. THEODORE’S HOUSES INUNDATED

  43. TOWN OF BUNDABERG INUNDATED

  44. IMPACTS • Cars were transformed into “boats” and became scrap metal as they collided with infrastructure; giant metal industrial bins were tossed about as if made of paper; and houses were torn off foundations.

  45. STRATEGIES FOR FLOOD DISASTER RESILIENCE

  46. REAL TIME WEATHER FORCASTING AND WARNING SYSTEMS MEASURMENT TECHNOLOGIES (E.G., STREAM GAGUES) RISK MODELING (E.G., HAZUS, INSURANCE UNDERWRITING) DATABASES MAPS: 100-YEAR AND 500-YEAR FLOODS FLOOD DISASTER SCENARIOS DRONE PLANES HAZMAT MANAGEMENT EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR FLOOD RISK REDUCTION

  47. PURPOSE PREVENTION PROTECTION LAND USE CONTROL TECHNIQUE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT FLOOD CONTROL (DIKES, LEVEES, AND DAMS) HAZARD MAPS (RISK ZONES) FLOOD DISASTER RESILIENCE STRATEGIES

  48. PURPOSE SITE MODIFICATION ALERT/WARNING MONITORING RISK ZONES IMPROVE PREPAREDNESS TECHNIQUE EMBANKMENTS; SANDBAGS EVACUATION STREAM GAGUES; DRONE PLANES 100-500 YEAR FLOOD MAPS SCENARIOS FLOOD DISASTER RESILIENCE STRATEGIES

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