International Disasters test 2
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Natural events cause disasters
True
False - False
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Vulnerability is closely associated with socio-economic positions.
True
False - True
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Vulnerability is generated by what processes that influence how hazards affect people.
social
economic
political
risk -
social
economic
political -
How do the authors explain the relationship between Vulnerability Risk, and Hazard
R=HV
V=RH
H=VR - R=HV
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Risk refers to the natural events that may affect different places singly or in combination and possibly at different times
True
False - False
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Dynamic ‘pressures’ are found in the structure of particular societies
True
False - True
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Root causes of vulnerability are often found in global economic and political process,
True
False - True
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Famines are now likely in South Asia
True
False - False
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This definition best explains which type of famine Rapid population growth outstripping the limits of global and regional food supplies.
Neo-Malthusian
Environmental “Supply –Side†Explanation
- Neo-Malthusian
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This Type of famine relates to environmental limitations of food output, principle through drought
Neo-Malthusian
Environmental “Supply –Side†Explanation
Economic Theories of famin - Environmental “Supply –Side†Explanation
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Theories of famine can be considered which of the folowing strands.
Neo-Malthusian
Environmental “Supply –Side†Explanation
Economic Theories of famine
Complex -
Neo-Malthusian
Environmental “Supply –Side†Explanation
Economic Theories of famine
Complex Emergencies, Policy Famines and Human Rights Emergencies -
The Access Model sets out to explain at the micro-level:
The establishment and trajectory of vulnerability.
The variation between individuals and households
The Impact of Multi Hazards
The resili -
The establishment and trajectory of vulnerability.
The variation between individuals and households -
Biological Hazards include:
Disease of plants
Epidemics that affect livestock
Micro-organisms such as those responsible for epidemic human diseases
Chemical terrorist attacks -
Disease of plants
Epidemics that affect livestock
Micro-organisms such as those responsible for epidemic human diseases -
The Access Model is designed to understand complex and varied sets of social and environmental events and processes that may be associated with a disaster.
True
False - True
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Expressed schematically the authors view is that the risk faced by people must be seen as a cross cutting combination of vulnerability and hazard
True
False - True
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Hazard refers to the natural events that may affect different places singly or in combination at different times
True
False - True
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To which model is this paragraph referring to
Root causes of vulnerability are often found in global economic and political process, while dynamic ‘pressures’ are to be found in the structure of particular societies
< - PAR
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Name the type of famine that focuses on:
The political aspect of famine
Human rights aspect of famine
The emerging complexities of contemporary famine.
Neo-Malthusian
Environmental “Supply –Side†Expla - Neo-Malthusian
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The __________is designed to understand complex and varied sets of social and environmental events and processes that may be associated with a disaster.
Par
Access - Access
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The text discusses _____ theories of famine
3
5
4
6 - 4
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Match the following description with the appropriate PAR model stage.
Systems promoting unequal assets holding prompts bias in floods precautions
Private gain may promote wrong protection measures
Population growth puts more people i - Root Cause
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Match the following description with the appropriate PAR model stage.
Class
Low income means poor self-protection; livelihood is in dangerous place; few assets so less able to recover.
Gender
Poorer nutrition means woman may be - Dynamic Pressure
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Match the following description with the appropriate PAR model stage.
Physical Environment
Poor self Protection
House on lowland
House material easily erode
Land erodible
Root Cause
Dynamic Pressure
Unsafe Co - Unsafe Conditions
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Which are stages of the PAR MODEL?
Root Cause
Dynamic Pressure
Unsafe Conditions
Disaster Event -
Root Cause
Dynamic Pressure
Unsafe Conditions
Disaster Event -
The increase in flooding is causing developed countries to rethink their policies restricting or attempting to control water ways. The new thought is to allow rivers to flow naturally or unimpeded.
True
False - True
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Vulnerability is both biophysical hazard and social response in a specific area
True
False - True
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According to the authors discussion about disasters,Natural system and human system are not related
True
False - False
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According to the PowerPoint’s which type of vulnerability corresponds with the following: susceptibility of social groups or society- at- large to potential losses
Individual vulnerability
Social vulnerabil - Social Vulnerability
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According to the PowerPoint’s which type of vulnerability corresponds with the following: potential for loss derived from interaction of society and environment
Individual vulnerability
Social vulnerability
- Biophysical vulnerability
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According to the PowerPoint Human activities modify physical events
True
False - True
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According to the PowerPoint’s which type of vulnerability corresponds with the following: personal potential or sensitivity to loss
Individual vulnerability
Social vulnerability
Biophysical vu - Individual vulnerability
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Match the following description with the appropriate PAR model stage.
Physical Environment
Poor self Protection
House on lowland
House material easily erode
Land erodible
Root Cause
Dynamic - Unsafe Conditions
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Which are stages of the PAR MODEL?
Root Cause
Dynamic Pressure
Unsafe Conditions
Disaster Event -
Root Cause
Dynamic Pressure
Unsafe Conditions
Disaster Event -
The increase in flooding is causing developed countries to rethink their policies restricting or attempting to control water ways. The new thought is to allow rivers to flow naturally or unimpeded.
True
False - True
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1. Which of the following causes of death has the highest percentage of deaths?
a. Epidemics
b. Accidents
c. Political violence
d. Rapid-onset disaster - c. Political violence
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2. What does GM stand for?
a. Generically modified
b. Genetically modified
c. General measures
d. General motors - b. Genetically modified
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3. CPR stands for:
a. Computer progress report
b. Community powered response
c. Common property resources
d. Common pressure release - c. Common property resources
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4. The current crisis in Africa is being blamed political and economic factors and drought.
True
False - True
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5. Biological hazards can only affect people and animals.
True
False - False
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6. Which category does physical environment, public actions and institutions, fragile economy and health fall under?
a. Hazard types
b. Root causes
c. Dynamic pressures
d. Unsafe conditions - d. Unsafe conditions
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7. Which earthquake had the largest financial and economic losses then any other disaster?
a. Kobe
b. Mexico City
c. Guatemala
d. Loma Prieta - a. Kobe
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8. The R in the CARDIAC risk reduction acronym stands for release.
True
False - False
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What accounts for the most deaths during a disaster?
A) Slow-onset disaster
B) Rapid-onset disaster
C) Political violence
D) Epidemics - Political Violence
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Which of the following factors make up the progression of vulnerability?
A) Root Causes
B) Unsafe Conditions
C) Dynamic Pressures
D) All of the above - D) All of the above
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Which of the following isn’t a type of capital listed in the Access Model?
A) Social Capital
B) Political Capital
C) Financial Capital
D) Natural Capital - Political Capital
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People obtain food through how many different types of entitlement relationships in private-ownership market economies?
A) 7
B) 4
C) 5
D) 3 - 5
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Biological Hazards can come from which of the following organisms?
A) Fleas
B) Birds
C) Grasshoppers
D) All of the above - All of the above
- True or False: According to the book, people are the cause of floods as well as water.
- Ture
- True or False: According to the book, the history of the conflict between the Hindu and Muslims was a dynamic pressure in the Gujarat earthquake.
- False, Root Cause instead of dynamic pressures
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In the seven-letter acronym CARDIAC, the D stands for what?
A) Disaster
B) Development
C) Demonstrate
D) Discourage - Development
- True or False, It is a risk to separate natural disasters from the social frameworks that influence how natural hazards affect people.
- True
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The Pressure and Release Model is described as _______, with increasing pressures on people arising from either side – from their vulnerability and from the impact of the hazard.
a. Can opener
b. Nutcracker
c. Tongs
- Nutcracker
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[multiple answer] The Access Model focuses on the way unsafe conditions arise in relation to the _______ and _______ processes that allocate assets, income, and other resources in a society.
a. Economic
b. Social
c. Gover -
Economic
Political - True or False, Although often linked with drought, floods or epidemics, famine can also occur without a well-defined trigger event in nature.
- True
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Biological hazards include _____-organisms.
a. micro
b. macro - micro
- True or False, The media and popular consensus of floods has not shifted significantly to suggestions that disasters were happening because people and buildings were in the wrong places on flood-prone land.
- False
- True or False, More than half the world’s population lives in coastal areas and is expected to develop uninterruptedly in the following decades.
- True
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multiple answer] Which of the following are among the five approaches to risk reduction in the face of earthquakes and volcanoes:
a. They can be used as opportunities to challenge the root causes of vulnerability
b. Local institutio - All of the above
- T/F-Disasters are a complex mix of natural hazards and human action?
- True
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What is MDC stand for?
Mitigation Disaster Coordination
B-More Disastrous Countries
C-More Developed Countries
D-Multiple Disaster Communities - More Developed Countries
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How many boxes are in the Axis Model Outline?
A-4
B-8
C-20
D-7 - 8
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What does FAD stand for?
A-Food Availability Decline
B-Food Availability Distribution
C-Food and Drive
D-Federal Association of Disasters - Food Availability Decline
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Multiple answers: Which of the following are types of hazardous floods?
A-Flash floods
B-Tsunami floods
C-Slow-on set floods
D-Tropical cyclone floods -
A-Flash floods
B-Tsunami floods
C-Slow-on set floods
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What did the Kobe earthquake read on the Richter scale?
A-10.3
B-2.6
C-1
D-7.2 - D-7.2
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What is the acronym for ‘risk reduction objectives’?
A-COOLERS
B-CARDIAC
C-CADILAC
D-MITIGATE - B-CARDIAC
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True or False
Vulnerability is closely associated with socio-economic positions. - True
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True or False
The term hazard refers to technological events that affect different places - False
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What does the access model explain?
A) Impact of a disaster as it unfolds
B) Variation between individuals and households
C) The establishment and trajectory of vulnerability
D) All of the above - D) All of the above
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True or False
Famine although often linked to drought, flood, or epidemic can also occur as a result of other human actions. - True
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True or False
Insects and other animals can transmit disease or destroy. - True
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Which of the following are causes of floods?
A) Dam Floods
B) Flash Floods
C) Landslides
D) All of the above - D) All of the above
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Which of the following are a type of vulnerability?
A) Individual Vulnerability
B) Social vulnerability
C) Biophysical vulnerability
D) All of the above
E) None of the above. - D) All of the above
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Define Vulnerability-----------
A. Potential loss
B. Potential gain
C. Potential increase
D. All above - A. Potential loss
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Compound functions of Risk
A. R=HV
B. R=HD
C. R=VH
D. Both A and C - A. R=HV
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The purpose of the access model
A. The impact of a disaster as it unfolds
B. The role and agency of people involved
C. What the impacts are on them
D. How the cope
E. All are correct - E. All are correct
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there are blank theories of famine
A. 3
B. 2
C. 4
D. 5 - C. 4
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Micro-organisms are the biological hazards
A. True
B. False - A. True
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Which one of the follows is not a cause of floods?
A. Dam failure
B. Flash flood
C. Landsides
D. Land flow - D. Land flow
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Social processes modified by natural conditions
A. False
B. True - B. True
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How many risk objectives are there?
A. 5
B. 6
C. 8
D. 7 - D. 7
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A much greater proportion of the worlds populations find their lives shortened by events that often go unnoticed. Which of these events are not one of them:
A. Violent Conflict
B. Epidemics
C. Illness
D. Hunger - B. Epidemics
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Which of the following is not an example of hazards under the progression of vulnerability model:
A. Flooding
B. Landslide
C. Dangerous Locations
D. Virus and Pests - C. Dangerous Locations
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Which model focuses on the way unsafe conditions arise in relation to the economic and political processes that allocate assets, income and other resources in a society:
A. PAR
B. Environmental Supply-Side Explanation
C. Economic Pre - E. Access
- True or False: Movement can introduce people to health threats if a large change in latitude or a shift to another ecosystem is involved.
- True
- True or False: Over the past decade the most extensive and damaging floods have occurred in the most under-developed countries.
- False
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This hazard arises during the summer over the oceans in a belt north and south of the equator and causes damages with high winds, surges, and inland flooding:
A. Tornadoes
B. Volcanic Eruptions
C. Tropical Cyclones
D. Thundersto - C. Tropical Cyclones
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Which vulnerability is susceptible for social groups or society-at-large to potential losses:
A. Individual
B. Biophysical
C. Social
D. Economic - B. Biophysical