Chapter 3Risk Management for Emergency Management and Public Safety
“We are shown that disasters are not natural. Only the threat is natural, so we have to manage the risk. We have to manage our vulnerability. We have to manage the exposure of people, and we have to manage how we use the land; how the earthquakes and the tsunami and the volcanoes can impact us. And how people interact with that natural environment. We take decisions every day, and most of these decisions expose people to danger, especially vulnerable people. … It’s not only a matter for an ‘Office of Emergency Management’. It is a matter of the Housing Ministry, the Development Ministry, the Economy. It’s about poverty. It’s about culture; and ...
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