ERTH 2415 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Emergency Management, Sea Level Rise, Public Safety Canada
11 Jul 2017
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Lecture 2: introduction to disaster and emergency managment. 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. Serious harm to safety, health , welfare, property or environment. Increase pest (pine beetles) and fire activity. Reduced glacier cover affecting western water and hydro resources. Reduced ice cover affecting economic development and traditional ways of life. Reduced reliability of ice roads to access remote mine sites and northern communities. Increased frequency of drought affecting forest, agriculture. Changing animal distributions affecting country food supply. Lower great lake water levels affecting shipping, hydro, recreation. Health issues due to heart stress and vector-borne diseases. Sea level rise and increase costal erosion affecting infrastructor. Prevention/mitigation: actions taken in order to eliminate or reduce the impacts of a disaster. Preparedness: to be ready to respond to a disaster and manage its consequences.
