Prevention

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Prevention

• City of Naestved
• Steen N. Jensen Jeannette Viale

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How to define Prevention

• First, you have to analyse where the major risks
  for your city/institution/enterprise are in order
  to define procedures that will help prevent these
  risks from happening
• Example to create the local risk landscape also
  including relations and interdependencies of the
  most important entities like power, water
  supplies, transport and communication etc.

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How to define Preparedness

• to minimize the adverse effects of a hazard
• (long time risk reduction to avoid hazards
  to expose)
• through effective precautionary actions..
• (dynamic plans to be reviewed, modified,
  updated and tested on a regular basis)
• to ensure timely appropriate and effective
  delivery of relief
• (response to or anticipation of a
  hazardous event. Mitigation includes prevention
  and
• preparedness. Timing is critical to
  disaster preparedness)

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How to define Risk, Crises, Hazard and Disaster

• Risk the combination of the probability of an
  event and its impacts
• (technical definition)
• Risk risk depends on the individuals or the
  groups perceptions of what is dangerous
  (socio-cultural definition)
• Crises any significant event with potentially
  consequences that require immediate action or
  response (typically if lack of resources for a
  proper response, including situations with
  pressure created by political conflicts or
  intervention from press to define different
  set-ups of stakeholders, organisation and
  decisions)
• Hazard A rare or extreme event in the natural or
  human-made environment that adversely affects
  human life, property or activity to the extent of
  causing a disaster
• Disaster A serious disruption of the functions
  of a society, causing widespread human, material,
  or environmental losses which exceed the ability
  of the affected society to cope using only its
  own resources (including for example the
  allocation of help to respond to disasters across
  existing national boarders)

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How to understand Prevention
Prevention Citizens Enterprises Local authorities
Risk-analyses Vulnerability Policy for protection
Culture Awareness building

• risk reduction
• preparation for
• improvement
• of response -
• early warning
• institutional
• framework
• - training

To prevent the foreseeable
Mitigation Researchers Planners/Instructors
Recovery Help org.
To take Action on the unforeseeable
Plan for preparedness
Emergency plan Disaster plan
Response Professional Rescue staff

• From threat-oriented to
• capacity-oriented (robust, flexible)

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Examples of prevention

• Social interventions against crime, violence and
  exclusion of citizens groups
• Awareness training to citizens and enterprises
  to create a safety culture based on individuals
  and small groups
• Modelling situations for later early warning
  systems
• Setting up working groups with all local,
  regional and national stakeholders to set up
  plans for preparedness
• Sustainable procedures for advice and
  requirements the range of risk-management
  actions (building permit control, local
  risk-groups in institutions)
• Prepared platforms and solid institutions for
  communication and sharing data and decision
  schemes for how to share information and
  knowledge even earlier than a decision on present
  disasters, crises etc.
• Set up frameworks to distinguish between similar
  and different scenarios depending of the
  geography and other contexts as f.ex. Interest
  groups in NGOs etc. Ex. Natural disasters,
  technological disasters, epidemic diseases,
  environmental disasters and crime/terrorism
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Risk landscape city level

• National risk landscape to be translated to
  local landscapes
• Identification of risks and assessment of how to
  prevent them

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From R-landscape to Identification
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From risk landscape to Information
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From risk landscape to communication
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From communication to risk culture
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From communication to risk culture
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From R-Landscape to predictions
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From risk culture to human awareness
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From risk culture to human awareness
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How to define Prevention

• to minimize the adverse effects of a hazard
• (long time risk reduction to avoid hazards
  to expose)
• through effective precautionary actions..
• (dynamic plans to be reviewed, modified,
  updated and tested on a regular basis)
• to ensure timely appropriate and effective
  delivery of relief (response to or anticipation
  of a hazardous event. Mitigation includes
  prevention and preparedness. Timing is critical
  to disaster preparedness)
• ( Prevention is an integrated approach for
  being prepared for and to build up preparedness
  and awareness)

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Work-shop 26.-27.May - Naestved
Welcome !
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Practical info, agenda registration

• 2-days agenda, 26-27 May, Social programme 25th
  May evening
• Mid of March More details about practical info
  (transport, hotel, location, social event Sunday
  evening) will be sent out to partners
• 1st of April First deadline for partners
  contributions concerning speakers for the agenda
• Mid of April Deadline for registration for
  participation (any fee ?)
• Mid of May Deadline for delivery of Power-points
  and short introductive abstracts