Are you ready? : an Australian initiative for the United Nations International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) 1990-2000.
Material type: TextPublication details: [Sydney?] : Australian Geography Teachers Association, 1999Description: 41 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 0909867984 (pbk)
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At foot of title: Geography Action Week
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Includes bibliographical references
Chapter 1: Preparing for disaster -- State of emergency declared for Katherine -- Disasters around the world -- What is the difference between hazards and disasters? -- What is a hazard? -- What types of hazards are there? -- Why risk it? -- Responding to hazards -- Enquire, decide, act -- Coming ready or not! -- Chapter 2: Difficult to predict and almost impossible to escape -- Tsunami destroys whole villages in PNG -- Interview with Dr Sairere -- PNG people and hazardous coastal locations -- The context in which the disaster should be considered -- A tsunami as a disaster, hazard and an emergency -- Where else do tsunamis cause disasters other than PNG? -- Is Australia at risk from tsunamis? -- People-environment relationships -- Chapter 3: Slipping and sliding -- Thousands stranded by mudslides and floods -- The view from Lawrence Hargrave Lookout -- Mass movement hazards -- What has happened in the Illawarra landslides? -- The Thredbo disaster -- The Gracetown cliff collapse -- A landslides awareness pamphlet -- Chapter 4: Bushfires -- What fires need -- History of fire in Australia -- Bushfire survival: a simulation game
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