ERTH 2415 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Public Safety Canada, Emergency Management
4 Oct 2016
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Disasters disasters are essentially a social phenomenon that results when a hazard intersects with a vulnerable community in a way overwhelms that community"s ability to cope. It is often associated with: sudden onset and fixed duration, serious harm to safety, health, welfare, property or environment, attention from media, and declaration of disaster by a government. Increasing structural vulnerability can occur due to: aging built infrastructure, critical infrastructure interdependencies, environmental degradation, unstainable land-use planning, and urbanization. Effects to social vulnerability includes: health, age, gender, language, and aboriginal community considerations. Emergency management: in practice, we focus on managing emergencies and decide later whether or not it was a disaster . Emergencies are current or imminent events that require prompt coordinated actions to reduce losses caused by natural, human induced or malicious hazards. The four components of emergency managements include: prevention/mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.
