NH009
Geohazards and Society: Striving Towards Improved Natural Hazard Resilience for All
Session ID#: 159054
Session Description:
Moreover, geohazards such as climate change, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic activity, and tsunamis do not impact communities equally. Socio-economic factors often impact a communityâs ability to prepare and respond to natural hazards at a local, state, federal, and international level. The impact of natural hazards on communities is influenced by the interaction of exposure, vulnerability, and capacity, as well as socio-economic barriers. These factors can increase exposure and vulnerability while limiting capacity building, creating an inequitable ability to prepare, respond, and recover from the impacts of natural hazards between communities. Effectively,addressing these inequities requires cooperation between all stakeholders in natural hazard mitigation and preparedness including hazard scientists, social scientists, emergency managers, government, and most importantly the communities themselves.
This multidisciplinary session invites all stakeholders in natural hazards to engage and address issues of equity in hazard management. Topics can include challenges and capacities of vulnerable groups in disaster readiness, factors that impact community response to natural hazards, case studies for improving community preparedness and natural disaster response, and preparing communities for climate change, amongst others.
This session is organized by the American Geophysics Union (AGU), Hazards Equity Working Group (HEWG).
Index Terms:
4306 Multihazards [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4332 Disaster resilience [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4338 Disaster policy [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4343 Preparedness and planning [NATURAL HAZARDS]
