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DEVELOPMENT REALM Development Development can increase can reduce vulnerability vulnerability NEGATIVE POSITIVE REALM REALM Disasters can Disasters can provide set back development development opportunities DISASTER REALM +


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Development can increase vulnerability Development can reduce vulnerability Disasters can set back development Disasters can provide development

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DEVELOPMENT REALM POSITIVE REALM NEGATIVE REALM DISASTER REALM

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Development can increase vulnerability Development can reduce vulnerability Disasters can set back development Disasters can provide development

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DEVELOPMENT REALM DISASTER REALM

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  • 1. Disasters set back development programming

destroying years of development initiatives

  • Infrastructure improvement e.g. transport and

utility systems are destroyed by a flood

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  • A self-help housing program to rebuild housing destroyed by

an earthquake teaches new skills, strengthens community pride and leadership and retains development dollars that

  • therwise would be exported to large construction companies.

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  • 2. Rebuilding after a disaster provides significant opportunities

to initiate development programs.

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  • 3. Development programs can increase an area’s susceptibility

to disasters

  • A major increase in livestock development leads to
  • vergrazing, which contributes to overgrazing, which

contributes to desertification and increases vulnerability to famine.

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  • Housing projects constructed under building codes designed

withstand high winds result in less destruction during the next tropical storm

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  • 4. Development programs can be designed to decrease the

susceptibility to disasters and their negative consequences

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SUMMARY:

Disaster can hold up development by:

  • Loss of resources
  • Shifting of resources to emergency response
  • Depressing the investment climate
  • Affecting the non-formal sector

Development can increase vulnerability through:

  • dense urban settlement
  • development of hazardous sites
  • environmental degradation
  • technological failures or accidents imbalance of pre-

existing natural or social systems

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Development programs can reduce vulnerability through:

  • Strengthening of urban utility systems
  • Hazard resistant building techniques
  • Institution building and capacitation of local

authorities

  • Agricultural and forestry

Disasters can provide development opportunities by:

  • Creating a social and political atmosphere of

acceptance to change

  • Highlighting the general level of underdevelopment

that caused the disaster

  • Focusing international attention and aid on the

disaster area

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Recovery programs should be designed to reduce vulnerability through:

  • Targeting areas of high risk
  • Support of the private and non-formal sectors
  • Enhanced management training programs