ENVS195 Study Guide - Final Guide: Nitrogen Cycle, Overfishing, Grand Banks Of Newfoundland
23 Mar 2016
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4 phases of the emergency management cycle: preparedness. Ensuring an effective response to a disaster, steps taken by officials: response. Actions taken to respond to an emergency or disaster: recovery. Restoring, rebuilding, reshaping the social, physical, economic, natural environment according to pre-event planning and post-event actions. Objectives: rapidly return to normal, increase safety, improve the community, restore quickly: mitigation and prevention. Reducing an areas vulnerability to a similar event or emergency: structural: rebuilding infrastructure to control water flows, non-structural: zoning regulation, location of critical facilities, population distribution. Technological: technological, industrial accidents, failures, industrial pollution, nuclear release and radioactivity, toxic waste, dam failure, transport, industrial or technological accidents (explosions, fires, spills), building collapse, power failure. Allows for structured response to an event. Saves lives, meets basic human needs, reduces loss of property and impact to critical infrastructure & environment in the immediate aftermath. Provides rapid and disciplined incident assessment to ensure the response is quickly scalable, adaptable and flexible.
