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The Hazard Management Cycle

The Hazard Management Cycle is a tool to help us understand the response, recovery, mitigation and preparedness for natural hazards.

Response and recovery

Response and recovery

  • Response:
    • Immediate help in the form of rescue to save lives and aid to keep people alive. This includes providing emergency shelter, food and water.
  • Recovery:
    • Rebuilding infrastructure and services after the disaster and rehabilitating injured (physically and mentally) people and their lives.
Mitigation and preparedness

Mitigation and preparedness

  • Mitigation:
    • Acting to reduce the scale of the next disaster by land-use zoning and building hazard-resistant buildings and infrastructure.
  • Preparedness:
    • Community education and resilience building, including how to act before, during and after a disaster.
    • Improving prediction warning and evacuation systems.

The Park Disaster Response Model

The Park Disaster Response Model shows the different stages of disasters.

The model explained

The model explained

  • The Park Disaster Response Model shows:
    • How quality of life is impacted by a hazardous event.
    • How a range of management strategies can be used over time, from before the event to after the event.
    • The roles of emergency relief agencies.
    • How different areas affected may have a different response curve, depending on their level of preparedness and economic development.
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