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Geography · Grade 11

Hazards, Vulnerability and Resilience

A natural hazard becomes a disaster only when it meets exposed, vulnerable people. Learners break risk into hazard, exposure, vulnerability and capacity, read hazard maps and calculate the probability of a '100-year' event over a lifetime, compare the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti and Chile using evidence beyond magnitude, and evaluate risk-reduction strategies against the priorities of the Sendai Framework.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 125 minutes
  • Hazards and resilience check: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, pin a map, pick map regions, match pairs and type a number
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What learners will discover

  • Analyse disaster risk as a combination of hazard, exposure, vulnerability and capacity, and classify factors in each component.
  • Interpret hazard maps, return periods and exceedance probabilities, and calculate expected annual loss.
  • Compare disaster outcomes in different places using evidence about hazard, exposure, vulnerability and capacity.
  • Evaluate disaster risk reduction strategies using the priorities of the Sendai Framework.

Lessons

  1. The components of risk 5 steps3 practiceabout 30 min
  2. Hazard maps and probability 6 steps4 practiceabout 30 min
  3. Comparing outcomes: Haiti and Chile, 2010 6 steps4 practiceabout 35 min
  4. Reducing risk: the Sendai Framework 6 steps3 practiceabout 30 min
  5. Hazards and resilience check 10 questions at the end

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