Planning for Emergencies and Disasters; Types of Disasters (Part II)

Running head : Disaster Management

Disaster Management : Winter Storm or Tornado

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Disaster Management : Winter Storm or Tornado

As all resources are scarce , in case two interests collide , we are always bound to make a technical , professional and even a political decision to settle the issue . In the specific community that we are investigating , we are first bound to choose which of the two types of disaster that we must choose to allot our resources on . Is it the high vulnerability in winter storm or the

high risk of tornadoes

From here we are recommending for the allocation of the resources in addressing the vulnerability of the community in a winter storm . In carrying out this decision , we take note of two things that prioritized this vulnerability over the high risk in tornadoes

Acceptable Risk : According to International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (2004 , acceptable risk is the level of loss a society or community considers acceptable given existing social , economic political , cultural , technical and environmental conditions . As stated in the report , the community is less vulnerable to tornadoes despite of the frequency of its occurrence this means that there will be less human and material casualty that shall be induced with the occurrence of this disaster . Single digits casualties for every occurrence of disaster are more acceptable rather than the thousands or hundreds of thousands of casualties that can be induced by the winter storm wherein the community is more vulnerable

Public Awareness and Coping Capability : According to...