A survey of 71 caravan parks in coastal NSW indicates a high exposure to flooding. Most parks in NSW are flood-prone. A growing number of long-term residents in the 1980s, and essentially immovable manufactured homes in the 1990s, significantly increased flood risk. However, many parks are ill-equipped to deal with flooding: a high turnover of park managers means that most have no direct experience of floods; attitudes of denial prevail; most parks have no means of raising community flood awareness; and the process of flood response planning is patchy and of poor quality. Key strategies for the reduction of flood risk are suggested, including a more rigorous implementation of tighter regulations that better guard the health and safety of park residents, and the equipping of park managers to self-manage risk. 相似文献
This study aimed at developing a model to evaluate lifelines seismic vulnerability, considering physical, functional, and organizational factors as deeply interconnected one to the other. The resulting assessment tool consists of a set of parameters measuring the response capacity of lifelines exposed to earthquakes.
The notion of systemic vulnerability is the underlying frame of the proposed evaluation method: what can be measured is how prone is a system to damage or failure not only as a consequence of some kind of physical damage occurring to one of its components, but also as the indirect effect of some physical, functional, or organizational failure suffered by other systems.
The assessment tool has been applied in Regione Lombardia, Italy, providing as a final output recommendations for prioritizing and taking actions to reduce the potential of magnified effects as a consequence of lifelines interruption in earthquakes aftermath. 相似文献