Surviving Natural Hazards

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Surviving Natural Hazards

• Objective To find out how people can reduce and
  manage hazard risk by forward planning

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Preparedness now!

• Watch the video below to find out how populations
  can prepare themselves for natural hazard events.

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Our Location
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The Scenario

• You live in Pacific Heights, San Francisco. You
  have a small sturdy shed in your garden, well
  away from the house, which houses your garden
  tools.
• On the advice of local fire officers you are
  going to put together an earthquake emergency kit
  and store it in this shed so it would be
  accessible in the event of an earthquake.

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Pacific Heights San Francisco
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Competition Time

• You will see 30 items that could be packed into a
  First Aid kit.
• How many can you remember?

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The Items
Fire Extinguisher   First Aid Kit Swiss Army Knife
Plastic bucket   Torch TV
Board games   Matches Candles
Tin opener   Spade Small tent
4 litres mineral water Water purifying tablets Toilet paper
Radio (battery operated) Sun screen Mobile phone
Disinfectant Tools including pipe wrench Spare batteries
Credit Card   Tinned food Dried food
Dust mask   Money Blankets
Avalanche transmitter Spare batteries Camping gas and stove
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The Venn Diagram

• Discuss all your items on the list and place all
  30 of your earthquake survival items into the
  Venn diagram in the appropriate section.
• Complete one Venn Diagram per person
• LEDC / MEDC / BOTH
• So, which of your six original items would be
  available if you lived in an LEDC such as
  Pakistan?

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Over to You .

• Complete this exam style question
• Making reference to a case study, to what extent
  does the level of preparedness for hazards depend
  on where people live in the world? (10)

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The Marketing Task
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Or you could go for the hero approach!
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Group Work

• Produce a presentation guide suitable for the USA
  and Pakistan. Your two separate presentations
  should show the vulnerable populations how they
  can prepare for a major earthquake event.
• Make sure that your chosen media will reach the
  maximum number of people possible.