Essay plan for hazards in geography
ESSAY PLAN
Introduction:
Briefly answer the question asked: “Why do similar kinds of hazards have different impacts in different places?”
Talk about the risk vulnerability quadrant.
Talk about the risk equation and how it will link to the question.
P1:
Point: Economic situation of the country affected by the disaster - Lots of money = better health cares to treat affected people. Little money = little spent to rebuild, plan, prepare, predict hazards so impact is greater.
Explain: If they have more money than they can spend it on rebuilding the infrastructure and making it more resistant to future disasters. They could spend more money on forecast equipment to make sure that the natural hazard doesn’t become a disaster.
Evidence: Central California (2003) have High risk and high security compared to Bam, Iran (2003) who have High risk and low security.
P2:
Point: Population Density - lots of people = strain on emergency services and other facilities leading to more losses. Sparsely populated areas have too few people for the hazard to be noted as a disaster. Less impact on a world wide scale.
Explain: If there are a lot of people in the area that the disaster has struck then more people are going to be injured or killed therefore more stress is on the emergency services therefore more death. It is also going to be worldwide if more people died and so more countries will need to be involved in aiding the country to ensure that minimal damage was caused.
Evidence: Japan 2011 and Haiti 2010
P3:
Point: The period in time in which the hazard occurred. For example a volcanic eruption now would be less severe than an eruption of the same power that occurred many decades before hand. This is because advances in technology have allowed us to plan and predict hazards in a much more effective way
Explain: Before technology was developed humans could not predict when hazards could come and how severe they will be so in the past the hazards were a surprise to
Introduction:
Briefly answer the question asked: “Why do similar kinds of hazards have different impacts in different places?”
Talk about the risk vulnerability quadrant.
Talk about the risk equation and how it will link to the question.
P1:
Point: Economic situation of the country affected by the disaster - Lots of money = better health cares to treat affected people. Little money = little spent to rebuild, plan, prepare, predict hazards so impact is greater.
Explain: If they have more money than they can spend it on rebuilding the infrastructure and making it more resistant to future disasters. They could spend more money on forecast equipment to make sure that the natural hazard doesn’t become a disaster.
Evidence: Central California (2003) have High risk and high security compared to Bam, Iran (2003) who have High risk and low security.
P2:
Point: Population Density - lots of people = strain on emergency services and other facilities leading to more losses. Sparsely populated areas have too few people for the hazard to be noted as a disaster. Less impact on a world wide scale.
Explain: If there are a lot of people in the area that the disaster has struck then more people are going to be injured or killed therefore more stress is on the emergency services therefore more death. It is also going to be worldwide if more people died and so more countries will need to be involved in aiding the country to ensure that minimal damage was caused.
Evidence: Japan 2011 and Haiti 2010
P3:
Point: The period in time in which the hazard occurred. For example a volcanic eruption now would be less severe than an eruption of the same power that occurred many decades before hand. This is because advances in technology have allowed us to plan and predict hazards in a much more effective way
Explain: Before technology was developed humans could not predict when hazards could come and how severe they will be so in the past the hazards were a surprise to