INCORPORATING LAST YEAR’S DISASTER

INFORMATION IN THIS YEAR’S EDUCATIONAL

SURGES (Part 1)

A PRIMER OF KNOWLEDGE THAT CAN MULTIPY AND SPILL OVER FOR THE

BENEFIT OF MILLIONS

Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of

North Carolina, USA

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Perspectives

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On Science, Policy,

On Science, Policy,

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WE ARE ALWAYS WRITING THE NEXT CHAPTER IN THE “GLOBAL BOOKS OF KNOWLEDGE AND

EXPERIENCE”

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On Science, Policy,

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GOAL: COMMUNITY DISASTER RISK REDUCTION GOAL: COMMUNITY DISASTER RISK REDUCTION GOAL: COMMUNITY DISASTER RISK REDUCTION GOAL: COMMUNITY DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

FLOODS

SEVERE WIND STORMS

EARTHQUAKES

DROUGHTS

LANDSLIDES

WILDFIRES

VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS

TSUNAMIS

GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE

TECHNOLOGICAL HAZARDS

INCREASED TECHNICAL AND POLITICL CAPACITY OF COMMUNITY TO COPE

INCREASED TECHNICAL AND POLITICL CAPACITY OF COMMUNITY TO COPE

INCREASED OWNERSHIP AND USE OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

INCREASED OWNERSHIP AND USE OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

IMPROVE ON PAST IMPROVE ON PAST PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE

IMPROVE ON PAST IMPROVE ON PAST PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE

EXAMPLE: FROM REAL TIME INFORMATION ON SEVERE

WINDSTORM IN 2008 TO A GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL SURGE THIS

YEAR(Part 1)

A SIMPLE CONCEPT WITH A HIGH BENEFIT TO COST RATIO

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF WHAT HAPPENED DURING 2008

NOTABLE DISASTER TYPES IN 2008NOTABLE DISASTER TYPES IN 2008NOTABLE DISASTER TYPES IN 2008NOTABLE DISASTER TYPES IN 2008

CYCLONE NARGIS

WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE

FLOODING IN MIDWESTERN USA

TROPICAL STORMS AND HURRICANES

WILDFIRES IN CALIFORNIA

ERUPTION OF VOLCANO CHAITEN

CATALYSTS FOR CHANGECATALYSTS FOR CHANGE

NEW KNOWLEDGE FOR NEW KNOWLEDGE FOR COMMUNITY DISASTER COMMUNITY DISASTER RISK REDUCTIONRISK REDUCTION

NEW KNOWLEDGE FOR NEW KNOWLEDGE FOR COMMUNITY DISASTER COMMUNITY DISASTER RISK REDUCTIONRISK REDUCTION

GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE

2008 TROPICAL STORM/HURRICANE/TYPHOON SEASON

PART 1

JUNE 1 – NOVEMBER 30, 2008

• HIGH VELOCITY WINDS• HEAVY RAINFALL• FLOODING• LANDSLIDES• POWER OUTAGES• AGRICULTURAL LOSSES

PATHS OF 16 NAMED ATLANTIC STORMS

• Many of the Gulf of Mexico’s offshore oil and natural gas drilling rigs and production platforms were in the storm’s path.• Companies prepared platforms for heavy wind and rain and evacuated some workers.• • Isolated tornadoes occurred over parts of southern Louisiana and the upper Texas coast. • Rainfall of 2 to 6 inches occurred in coastal LA and southeast TX. • Tides were 2 to 4 feet above normal.

• Texas officials began activating emergency teams Sunday afternoon, August 3rd,including 1,200 Texas national guards and six UH-60 helicopters..

• Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rica, Cuba, and Florida were in Fay’s path.• Even though Fay never became a Category 1 hurricane, it was very destructive.

• Fay was a heavy rainmaker, generating more than 30 inches of rain and spawning eight tornadoes in parts of Florida.

• Fay was a boomerang storm in Florida, first traveling east, then west, then east, then west and lingering much too long.

HURRICANE GUSTAV: NEW ORLEANS SPARED AS LEVEES HOLD AND PATH OF STORM PREVENTS IT FROM BEING ANOTHER KATRINA

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

• GUSTAV CAUSED EXTENSIVE DAMAGE IN CUBA BEFORE REACHING USA.• GUSTAV MADE LANDFALL AT 9:30 AM IN COCODRIE, LOUISIANA, ABOUT 70 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW ORLEANS.• A CAT 2 HURRICANE THEN, IT HAD WINDS OF ABOUT 110 MILES PER HOUR (183 KM/HR).• THE STORM SURGE WAS ABOUT 14 FT.

• OIL PLATFORMS WERE EVACUATED AND PRODUCTION SHUT DOWN IN THE GULF OF MEXICO IN ANTICIPATION OF GUSTAV• NEARLY TWO MILLION PEOPLE WERE EVACUATED FROM NEW ORLEANS AND OTHER CITIES TO OTHER PARTS OF LOUISIANA AND TO OTHER STATES• OVER ONE MILLION WERE WITHOUT POWER

HURRICANE IKESEPTEMBER 3 – 13, 2008

Ninth Named Storm of 2008 Hurricane Season

(See Part 2)

FOUR UNIVRSAL BARRIERS TO USE OF LAST YEAR’S INFORMATION

• IGNORANCE

• APATHY

• DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES

• LACK OF POLITICAL WILL

EDUCATIONAL SURGES CREATE TURNING EDUCATIONAL SURGES CREATE TURNING POINTS POINTS

EDUCATIONAL SURGES CREATE TURNING EDUCATIONAL SURGES CREATE TURNING POINTS POINTS

ALL SECTORS OF SOCIETY INFORMED

IGNORANCE TO ENLIGHTENMENT

APATHY TO EMPOWERMENT

BOUNDARIES TO NETWORKS

STATUS QUO TO GOOD POLITICAL DECISIONS

EDUCATIONAL SURGES WILL CHANGE THE COMMUNITY

EDUCATIONAL SURGES WILL CHANGE THE COMMUNITY

EDUCATIONAL SURGEEDUCATIONAL SURGEEDUCATIONAL SURGEEDUCATIONAL SURGE

RELEVANT

PUBLIC AWARENESS

INCREASE UNDERSTANDING

POLITICAL ENABLEMENT

BUILD EQUITY

BASIC OBJECTIVES FOR LAUNCHING AN EDUCATIONAL SURGE

BASIC OBJECTIVES FOR LAUNCHING AN EDUCATIONAL SURGE

BENEFITS OF EDUCATIONAL SURGESBENEFITS OF EDUCATIONAL SURGESBENEFITS OF EDUCATIONAL SURGESBENEFITS OF EDUCATIONAL SURGES

EXPAND CAPABILITY

IMPROVE DELIVERY MECHANISMS

OVERCOME UNIVERSAL BARRIERS

CREATE TURNING POINTS OF CHANGE

INCREASE COMMUNITY DISASTER RESILIENCE

EDUCATIONAL SURGESEDUCATIONAL SURGES

TOPICS AND TARGETS OF EDUCATIONAL SURGES TOPICS AND TARGETS OF EDUCATIONAL SURGES TOPICS AND TARGETS OF EDUCATIONAL SURGES TOPICS AND TARGETS OF EDUCATIONAL SURGES

THE KNOWLEDGE BASE

Risk and Loss Assessments

Increased Understanding

Hazard Characterization

Vulnerability Assessments

Real & Near Real Time Information Flow

Disaster-Risk Reduction

Interface with Multiple Networks

Cause & Effect Relationships

CAPACITY BUILDING

Emergency Managers

Policy Makers

Practitioners

Intelligent Emergency Management

Tailored to Community Needs

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Up Close, Virtual, and Distance Learning

Update Knowledge Bases After Each Disaster

Disaster Scenarios

Training

Information Technology

A PROCESS THAT PENETRATES SOCIETYA PROCESS THAT PENETRATES SOCIETY A PROCESS THAT PENETRATES SOCIETYA PROCESS THAT PENETRATES SOCIETY

• Increasing the "World's Mutual Fund for Education," (i.e., the in-country resources for education in the budget of every nation)

• Using conferences and other meetings on different scales will eventually overcome the universal barriers of ignorance, apathy, disciplinary boundaries, and lack of political will

• Increased community disaster-risk reduction for all (including Mega-cities, which are a special challenge)

BENEFITS OF AN EDUCATIONAL SURGE

BENEFITS OF AN EDUCATIONAL SURGE

• Transferring ownership of knowledge and technology for increasing disaster-risk reduction for people, habitats, livelihoods, cultural heritage, and infrastructure

• Facilitates equipping, linking, and engaging legions of new and emerging professionals with mature professionals

• Intensifies efforts in high-risk locations.• Increases risk reduction for essential (schools) and

critical (hospitals, dams, and power plants) facilities.

MEASURING CHANGEMEASURING CHANGEMEASURING CHANGEMEASURING CHANGE

NEW RESOURCES

NEW DELIVERY MECHANISMS

NEW PROFESSIONAL LINKAGES

NEW LEGISLATIVE MANDATES

NEW DIALOGUE ON BUILDING A CULTURE OF DISASTER-RISK REDUCTION

EDUCATIONAL SURGES SHOULD RESULT IN …

EDUCATIONAL SURGES SHOULD RESULT IN …

MEASURING CHANGE

PRINCIPLES(Improving on the

past)

• REDUCTION IN MAGNITUDE OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC LOSSES FROM NATURAL HAZARDS

MEASURING CHANGE

PRINCIPLES(Improving on the

past)

• REDUCTION IN NUMBER AND MAGNITUDE OF ANNUAL NATURAL DISASTERS

MEASURING CHANGE

PRINCIPLES(Improving on the

past)

• INCREASED EFFECTIVENESS OF EDUCAT-IONAL SURGES TO BUILD PROFESSIONL CAPACITY FOR DISASTER-RISK REDUCTION

MEASURING CHANGE

PRINCIPLES(Improving on the

past)

• DECREASE IN IGNORANCE, APATHY, DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES, AND LACK OF POLITICAL WILL

MEASURING CHANGE

• PRINCIPLES (Improving on the Past)

• INCREASE IN TRAINING

MEASURING CHANGE

• PRINCIPLES (Improving on the Past)

• INCREASE IN NUMBER OF PROFESSIONALS ENGAGED IN SEAMLESS NETWORKS HAVING COMMUNITY DISASTER-RISK REDUCTION AS A GOAL

MEASURING CHANGE

• PRINCIPLES (Improving on the past)

• INCREASED COORDINATION

MEASURING CHANGE

• PRINCIPLES (Improving on the past)

• IMPROVED COLLABORATION

• PRINCIPLES (Improving on the past)

• IMPROVED INNOVATION

MEASURING CHANGE

• TURNING POINTS

(Building a Culture of Community Disaster-Risk Reduction)

NEW NETWORKS OF PROFESS-IONALS WORKING ON EDUCATIONAL SURGES THAT PENETRATE ALL LEVELS OF THE COMMUNITY.

MEASURING CHANGE

• TURNING POINTS (Building a Culture of Community Disaster-Risk Reduction)

• INCREASE IN ACTIVITIES TO TRANSFORM IGNORANCE INTO ENLIGHTENMENT

MEASURING CHANGE

• TURNING POINTS (Building a Culture of Community Disaster-Risk Reduction)

• INCREASE IN ACTIVITIES TO TRANSFORM APATHY INTO EMPOWERMENT

MEASURING CHANGE

• TURNING POINTS (Building a Culture of Community Disaster-Risk Reduction)

• INCREASE IN ACTIVITIES TO TRANSFORM ORGANIZATIONAL AND DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES INTO SEAMLESS NETWORKS

MEASURING CHANGE

• TURNING POINTS (Building a Culture of Community Disaster-Risk Reduction)

• INCREASE IN ACTIVITIES TO TRANSFORM THE STATUS QUO IN A COMMUNITY INTO “GOOD” POLITICAL DECISIONS

MEASURING CHANGE

• TURNING POINT (Building a Culture of Community Disaster-Risk Reduction)

• INCREASE IN DIALOGUE ON HOW TO USE LAST YEAR’S DISASTER INFORMATION IN THIS YEAR’S EDUCATIONAL SURGES