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    Assignment 1.1-DRRR

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    This document provides an assignment to identify situations that constitute hazards and disasters. Students are asked to determine if 6 flooding scenarios involve a natural phenomenon and hazard, and whether they constitute a disaster. The scenarios describe flooding in isolated unpopulated areas, flooding threatening populated but not vulnerable areas, and flooding threatening known vulnerable populations, including cases where population growth increases vulnerability.

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    This document provides an assignment to identify situations that constitute hazards and disasters. Students are asked to determine if 6 flooding scenarios involve a natural phenomenon and hazard, and whether they constitute a disaster. The scenarios describe flooding in isolated unpopulated areas, flooding threatening populated but not vulnerable areas, and flooding threatening known vulnerable populations, including cases where population growth increases vulnerability.

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    This document provides an assignment to identify situations that constitute hazards and disasters. Students are asked to determine if 6 flooding scenarios involve a natural phenomenon and hazard, and whether they constitute a disaster. The scenarios describe flooding in isolated unpopulated areas, flooding threatening populated but not vulnerable areas, and flooding threatening known vulnerable populations, including cases where population growth increases vulnerability.

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    ASSIGNMENT 1.

    Objective: Identify situations that constitutes hazards and determine which ones qualify and
    as disasters.

    Instruction: Answer the following by indicating in the space for letter a whether the situation
    involves a natural phenomenon or hazard, and in the space for letter b whether it constitutes a
    disaster or not.

    1. Flooding occurs in an isolated island with zero population. This situation is illustrated in
    the figure below.

    flood in an
    isolated island

    a. _________________________ b. _________________________

    2. A river flood occurs near a community whose population is not known to be vulnerable.
    Flooding is threatening to intensify and reach the populated area.

    river flood population

    a. _________________________ b. _________________________
    3. Flooding occurs near a community whose population is not known to be vulnerable.
    Population growth pushes people farther into the flood-prone areas.

    flooding population

    a. _________________________ b. _________________________

    4. Flooding occurs near a community whose population is known to be vulnerable. Flooding


    is threatening to intensify and reach the populated area.

    vulnerable
    flood population

    a. _________________________ b. _________________________

    5. Flooding occurs near a community whose population is known to be vulnerable.


    Population growth threatens to push people farther into the flood-prone areas.

    vulnerable
    flood population
    a. _________________________ b. _________________________

    6. Flooding occurs near a community whose population is known to be vulnerable.


    Intensification of flooding caused water level to rise toward the populated area. Also,
    population growth has pushed people into the flood-prone areas.

    vulnerable
    flood
    population

    b. _________________________ b. _________________________

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