DIS3011 INTRODUCTION TO DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT MODULE ASSIGNMENT

UNIT 1: THE MANAGEMENT OF DISASTERS

Upon completing this chapter, students should be able to:

1. Describe how emergency management has evolved throughout history, particularly in the past 100 years.
2. List and describe the series of global agreements and frameworks developed to improve and expand the practice of emergency management worldwide.
3. List and explain five global disaster trends.
4. Explain how and why disasters and development are linked.
5. Define key emergency management terms: hazard; risk; vulnerability; disaster; safe; compound disaster; humanitarian crisis; complex humanitarian emergency; refugee; and internally displaced person.

UNIT 2: HAZARDS, RISK, AND VULNERABILITY

Units 2A: Hazards

Upon completion of this chapter, students should be able to:

1. Define the three major hazard categories, including natural, technological, and intentional.
2. List and describe five natural, five technological, and three intentional hazards
3. List and describe the steps involved in hazard identification and explain how hazard statements and profiles are created.
4. Describe how hazard analysis is performed and explain the difference between hazard assessment and analysis.

Unit 2B: Risk and vulnerability

By the end of this chapter, students should be able to:

1. Name the two components of risk and explain what each measure.
2. Explain the difference between qualitative and quantitative risk likelihood and consequence measurements and how hazard risks are analyzed using each.
3. Define intensive, extensive, and emerging risk, and explain why disaster managers need to be concerned with all three.
4. Evaluate hazard risks that have been analyzed using qualitative or quantitative methods.
5. Explain the importance of risk acceptability and the presence of alternatives
6. Define vulnerability and list and explain the four vulnerability profiles
7. Describe how urbanization and rural livelihoods influence risk.

UNIT 3: MITIGATION

By the end of this chapter, students should be able to:

1. Define the term mitigation and describe five mitigation goals.
2. Define structural mitigation, and list and describe five structural mitigation methods
3. Define non-structural mitigation, and list and describe four non-structural mitigation methods.
4. Explain how risks are transferred, spread, or shared.
5. List and describe five common mitigation obstacles.
6. Explain how risk mitigation options are assessed and selected.

UNIT 4: PREPAREDNESS

By the end of this chapter, students should be able to:

1. Define an emergency operations plan and list and describe each common component.
2. List three different types of disaster exercises and explain what each is used to achieve.
3. Describe how training and equipment contribute to community disaster preparedness.
4. Explain the importance of statutory authority to emergency management capacity and provide an example of how disasters can influence changes in statutory authorities.
5. Explain the various stages of public preparedness and describe the role of the media in creating an informed and educated public.

UNIT 5: OPERATIONALIZATION RESPONSE AND RECOVERY IN CASES OF DISASTERS

Unit 5A: Response

By the end of this chapter, students should be able to:

1. Define the term response in the emergency management context, and list and explain the three response phases.
2. List and describe five or more response functions.
3. Provide definitions for command, control, and coordination, and explain why each is important to disaster response management.
4. Define what a disaster declaration is and explain how countries request assistance when they are overwhelmed by a disaster event.

UNIT 6: LEGISLATION AND POLICY

By the end of this unit, students should be able to

1. demonstrate basic knowledge of the Disaster Management legislative and policy framework, both internationally and locally.

UNIT 7: DISASTER RISK GOVERNANCE

Unit 7A: Participants: Governmental disaster management agencies

Upon completion of this chapter, students should be able to:

1. List and describe the primary components of typical governmental emergency management capacity.
2. Explain how emergency and disaster management is structured in the various
3. countries and regions of the world, and list three different configurations by which this occurs.
4. Describe the importance of bilateral disaster assistance and explain how governments help each other when impacted by disasters.
5. List and explain five political implications of bilateral disaster assistance and five considerations for how disaster assistance might cause adverse collateral effects.

Unit 7B: Participants: Non-governmental organizations, including the private sector and academia

By the end of this chapter, students should be able to:

1. Define the term non-governmental organization (NGO), and list and describe the different categories of NGOs.
2. Explain the NGO's role in disaster risk management.
3. Describe how NGOs coordinate during disasters and provide examples of NGO coordination mechanisms.
4. Explain how NGOs to ensure standards of service are upheld.
5. Describe the disaster risk management role of the private and academic sectors