(RESPONSE 1 BRETT)
Classmates and Professor,
I found the assigned study interesting, especially the way the Philippine community adapted their lifestyle to the threat of flooding by becoming stronger in a communal sense and increasing networks. I believe this is due to the frequent nature of the flooding they have to encounter, and therefore they see the perceived threat as real and one to be taken seriously.
What I also found interesting is the English response to the same type of flooding, and the Netherlands. Both of these countries had negative reactions to the same threat. And I wanted to add something the study doesn’t take into account: risk compensation or as it is sometimes called risk homeostasis. By introducing a potential solution for a risk, it sometimes introduces a facet of risk-taking behavior not previously seen. The popular example is that if you have much better brakes on your car now, you will subconsciously drive in more reckless manner, because you know that the brakes will save you (Husted & Nickerson, 2019). You have subconsciously accepted a certain amount of risk in doing an activity, so if it is displayed as now safer, you may ‘allow’ yourself to do something you wouldn’t previously to somehow even out the risk in your head.
For Emergency Managers, we need to keep vigilant that our prevention solutions do not mitigate the risk completely in a community’s mind. Because no solution we have is going to mitigate it completely, and we need the community to pull together in the emergency, not rely on the ‘golden parachute’ that we told them will potentially fix things.
Brett
References:
Husted, T., & Nickerson, D. (2019). Disaster Risk, Moral Hazard, and Public Policy. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199389407.013.195
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Module 3 – Background
INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM; PRINCIPLES AND FEATURES PART I; MITIGATION AND RISK REDUCTION
Required Reading
Flood response plan: City of Fort Worth, TX (2019). Retrieved from https://www.fortworthtexas.gov/files/assets/public…
Introduction to incident command system, ICS-100.b, FEMA Interactive Web-based Course (2010). Retrieved from http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/IS100b.asp (Do not take the course; just review the material).
Seyedin, H., Samadipour, E., & Salman, I. (2019, March 14). Intervention strategies for improvement of disasters risk perception: Family-centered approach. Journal of Education and Health Promotion 8(63). Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC64422…
Required Websites
Promoting mitigation in Louisiana—Performance analysis of mitigation projects—A case study, FEMA. www.fema.gov/pdf/casestudys/performance.pdf
Standardized Emergency Management System. http://www.caloes.ca.gov/cal-oes-divisions/plannin…
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