Disaster Management · TEE · read-chapter

Risk, classification and vulnerability

TEE core · taught concepts and descriptive answers; extended sums are optional

1. Classifying a disaster on four different bases
2. Disaster equation: components and interpretation
3. Risk assessment, mapping and the four-step method
4. Why vulnerability builds up: the pressure-and-release model
5. Four perspectives and four impact categories
6. Levels of disaster and escalation of response