Disasters and Urbanization Development Quiz

What is the relationship between disasters and development?

Who is more severely affected by disasters according to the text?

In what way can development schemes increase vulnerability?

What approach is recommended for managing disasters and development?

What are the UN Sustainable Development Goals intended to do?

What is the key to understanding disaster risk?

How are disasters related to development programming?

What is the measure of the sustainability of development according to the text?

What is the term used to describe the ability of communities, societies, and systems to resist, absorb, recover from disasters, and improve wellbeing?

What are some of the risk drivers that influence hazard, vulnerability, and exposure?

Disasters and ______ are closely linked

The situation is more severe for the countries at different ______ levels

Disasters threaten ______, just as development creates disaster risk

Urbanization in ______

Disasters and ______ are closely linked

Disasters set back development programming, destroying years of development initiatives. Rebuilding after a disaster provides significant opportunities to initiate development programmes. Development programmes can increase an area’s susceptibility to disasters. Development programmes can be designed to decrease the susceptibility to disasters and their negative consequences. Development requires institutional and structural transformations of societies to speed up  ______  reduce growth, levels of inequality, and  eradicate absolute poverty.

Over time, the effects of disasters can seriously degrade a country’s long-term potential for sustained development and cause governments to fundementally modify their economic development priorities and programmes. At the same time, disasters often provide opportunities for development. They can improve the atmosphere in favour of change and create a rationale to establish development programmes such as  ______,  housing  land construction and reform.

Understanding disaster risk requires us to  not only consider the hazard, our exposure and vulnerability  but also society's capacity to protect itself from disasters. The ability of communities, societies, and systems to ______, absorb, accommodate, recover from disasters, whilst at the same time improve wellbeing, is known as RESILIENCE.

As the past several decades of research have demonstrated, disasters particularly affect the poorest and most marginalised people, whilst also exacerbating vulnerabilities and social inequalities and harming economic growth.  Disaster mortality risk is closely correlated with income level and quality of risk governance. Although some countries have successfully reduced disaster deaths from flooding and tropical cyclones, evidence suggests that the numbers of deaths from ______ risks is increasing.

Hazard, vulnerability and exposure are influenced by a number of risk drivers, including  poverty and inequality,  badly planned and managed urban and regional development,  ______ and environmental degradation. Understanding disaster risk requires us to  not only consider the hazard, our exposure and vulnerability  but also society's capacity to protect itself from disasters.