Develop and Test Warming Systems.

Develop and Test Warming Systems.

Disaster Risk Reduction

         Nations prone to natural disaster hazards need to understand that the hazard does not have to translate into disasters and with mitigations' preventative action especially when their is knowledge on the disaster and the sharing of the knowledge to the general public. To reduce risk we must talk about vulnerability again. In this case human vulnerability is the lack of capacity of a community to anticipate cope with, resist and recover from the impact of a hazard. They are factors that contribute to this vulnerability like population increase, rapid urbanization, poor planning, lack of knowledge, poverty and so forth (for others visit). Poverty is the most crippling of these. 

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                      Disaster Risk Reduction is at the heart of disaster preparedness forming plans pre-disaster, during and post disasters. Risk reduction is defined as physical measures to reduce the vulnerability and exposure of infrastructure to natural hazards as well and to provide coping and adaptive infrastructure in case of a disaster event. Some DRR Recommendations for countries which do don’t have a robust disaster preparedness plan are.   The measures above reduce risk and keep a nation or community functional. Some DRR measures a nation can take are key into their planning and policy are 

Ø  Appropriate planning to mitigate flooding in flood susceptible regions and alternative infrastructure like roads for the provision of food and clean water and other vital services and supplies.

Ø  Provision of raised flood shelters.

Ø  The upgrading of water supply systems in rural areas to provide sufficient drinkable water supply during floods or droughts.

Ø  The construction and utilization of drainage pumps as an example of amplification of the capability to cope with floods.

Ø  Develop or further strengthen community-based disaster preparedness by focusing more on the roles of the different components of the community.

Ø  Improve communication through better use of available technologies and a mover from manual systems to digital platforms.

Ø  Educate farmers to diversify the range of crops they produce as a strategy to survive in the event of disaster.

These are just a few examples. I am very sorry for the absence of a post in November.