ERTH 2415 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Permafrost, Coastal Erosion, Emergency Management

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Earth Sciences
• Course: ERTH 2415
• Professor: Jason Mah

Document Summary

Taking out the elderly may make a community more vulnerable: gender, language, aboriginal community considerations. In practice, we focus on 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 pillars of emergency management: prevention/mitigation: actions taken in order to eliminate or reduce the impacts of a disaster. The situation in canada: water (flood, storm surge, coastal erosion) disasters are increasing in canada significantly, the fund was established in 1970s which cost around million a year. It now costs billion per year, but the program is not sustainable. The situation in canada: most emergencies in canada are local in nature and are managed by the municipalities or at the provincial or territorial level, emergency management in canada is bottom up. Individual responsibility -> municipal responders -> provincial governments -> federal government.