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Hazard, Risk, & Disaster Management
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Reading
• Smith Chapters 1-5
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Hazard
• Naturally-occurring/human-induced event with potential for loss
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Risk
• Exposure to a hazard
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Disaster
• Occurrence of hazard resulting in serious damage/loss of life
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Human-Centred Viewpoint
• People see hazards to environment as less important than risks to people or property
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Human-Centred Viewpoint
• People more impressed by rapid-onset events with big, visible, impacts than by slow-acting events with subtle impacts.
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Risk Assessment
• Assessing the risks which are probable– counting, probability– judgement– appears scientific
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Risk Assessment
• Done by “experts”– presented as “objective”
• Done by ordinary people– presented as “poorly-informed”
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Lay Risk Assessment
• People more prepared to tolerate voluntary risks than involuntary ones– by a factor of 1000 (pp. 57-9)
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Risk Assessment
• In reality, expert risk assessments are not objective– require judgements– tendency to use technical detail to hide the
partisan judgements
• No “value-free” risk assessment
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Ralgreen Crescent, Kitchener
• 1960s suburban subdivision
• Built on old city dump
• Landfill-related explosion demolishes house in 1969
• City hires Heath Consultants to measure methane
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1990s
• Houses cracking, tilting
• Basements leaking smelly liquids and vapours
• People getting sick– Leukemia cases
• Residents discover history of property
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1990s
• City gets Heath Consultants to do risk assessment– soil and other tests– uses industrial criteria– reports contaminants at acceptable levels
• Residents unimpressed
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1990s
• Residents seek their own risk assessment
• Hard to hire a consultant– costs money– consultants reluctant to offend the city
• Eventually succeeds:– uses new residential criteria for contamination– finds significant health risks in several
properties
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2000s
• Residents sue
• City settles with residents– buys the worst affected houses– bulldozes them
• Other alarmed residents not bought out– risk assessment does not justify it
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Disaster Management
• Where should we spend whose money to undertake what programmes to save which lives with what probability? (Zeckhauser & Shepard 1984)
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Disaster Management
• Levels of intervention– Educate people to avoid disaster– Subsidise people to avoid disaster– Force people to avoid disaster
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Disaster Management
• Safety has a price
• People don’t want to pay
• Example:– TFD wants Ontario Building Code altered to
require sprinklers in new residential construction
– Emergency Measures Ontario given virtually no money pre- Sept 11
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Disaster Management
• Pre-Disaster Protection
• Post-Disaster Recovery
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Pre-Disaster Protection
• Risk assessment
• Mitigation
• Preparation
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Post-Disaster Recovery
• Relief & rescue
• Rehabilitation
• Reconstruction
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Plastimet Fire July 1997
• Hamilton waterfront
• Plastics recycler burns– after multiple earlier fires, 39
previous fire-code violations
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Hamilton FD
• fails to evacuate/protect areas downwind– Hamilton General Hospital– Hamilton-Wenworth Detention Centre
• places fire-fighters in unnecessary danger– air supply runs out while above fire
• no disaster pre-planning
• inadequate hazardous materials equipment, training, planning
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Adjustment to Hazard
• Modify the loss burden
• Modify hazard events
• Modify human vulnerability
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Modify the loss burden
• Insurance
• Disaster relief
• Emergency aid
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Modify hazard events
• Engineering
• Hazard-resistant designs
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Modify human vulnerability
• Community preparedness
• Forecasting, warning & evacuation systems
• Land use planning