Presentation showing that disasters can be mitigated using sociological and psychological means to reduce social vulnerability impacts including building social capital and positive psychology. These techniques can be used in conjunction with 'traditional' structural and non-structural disaster risk management methods.

1. Society-first hazard
mitigation
Knowledge Stream

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WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE TERM
‘NATURAL DISASTER’?
Disasters are not natural. If the same
powerful cyclone were to hit two different
regions in the world, the results would look
very different.
It’s actually the decisions we make that
create a disaster.
Factors like living conditions and poverty,
government capacity to prepare and
respond, as well as the process of
rebuilding and how efficient that would be,
are all factors that will define whether a
disaster occurs as a result of the natural
hazard.

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disasters of all types—be they natural,
technological, or economic—are rooted in
common social and institutional sources
development decisions creating and
perpetuating vulnerability are the root causes
of disasters, not environmental phenomena
which sometimes become hazardous

4. First modern disaster
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6. Social capital
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7. Planning for social capital
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8. Social media
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9. Reducing vulnerability
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10. Psychological interventions
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11. Social planning
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12. Ideas & opportunities
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