LEC 8: Class Presentations

Question 1

Hurricane Katrina: Group 1

Answer 1

Event

• 2005: category 5 major hurricane
• $125 billion in damage; most costly and damaging hurricane in the U.S ever
• 2000 casualties; 1.5 million displaced

1. Top Three SDH
   - Gender
   - Race
   - Income (US poverty rate 13%; Mississippi poverty rate 21.6%)

1a. Gender
- Barrier: overall status of women = lower
- Facilitator: Increase women’s community participation in EP/political decision

2a. Race
- Barrier: Racism still a problem for African-American citizens within the states
- Facilitator: Involve marginalized/excluded persons who are excluded from decision making on the basis of race

3a. Income
- Barrier: Lasting repercussion still remain for those affected, especially low income citizens. This leaves them more at risk
- Facilitator: Create a program to finically support low-income people

Question 2

Hurricane Katrina: Group 2

Answer 2

Event

• Most costly on record
• 1800+ casualties, over 1 million displaced
• Lack of health care access
• Majority of deaths due to levee failing not directly from hurricane

1. Top Three SDH
   - Housing: around 800,000 units damage/destroyed
   - Food security and portable water
   - Health services: sanitation issues, lack of service, medical supplies, transport

1a. Housing
- Barrier: Insurance companies collecting and following through with plans. People’s insurance covering enough but pan refusing to cover all. Now insurance is heavily increased (4x)
- Facilitators: Finding funding for repair. Housing assistance from FEMA

2a. Food Security
- Barrier: Affordability of healthy food. Rebuilding of produce stores
- Facilitators: Starting gardens in vacant lots

3a. Health Services
- Barriers: Closing hospital, opening private hospitals
- Facilitators: Transporting services. Easier access. Charity run clinics

Question 3

Hurricane Katrina: Group 3

Answer 3

Event

• August 2005
• Struck Gulf coast of the US
• 1.5 million people displaced
• Most devastating natural disaster in US history

1. Top Three SDH
   - Genders: pre-hurricane women’s rights issues accentuated during recovery
   - Race/ Language: The damaged areas of New Orleans was disproportionately black (46%) in some major cities more than 50% population may not speak english well; inhibits disaster preparation and evacuation
   - Housing: Post hurricane housing cost was moderate to severe (30% to 49.9% income) for almost 20% of housing

1a. Gender
- Barrier: lack of women participating in government
- Facilitator: More women involvement

2a. Race/ Language
- Barrier: racism and language barriers
- Facilitator: More community involvement

3a. Housing
- Barrier: Lack of affordable housing
- Facilitator: Provide a variety of affordable housing options (subsidized housing)

Question 4

Fort McMurray: Group 4

Answer 4

Event

• May 1 wildfire began
• 88,000 people evacuated
• 2, 400 homes and buildings destroyed

1. Three SDH
   - Physical environment: Good employment over night
   - Income and social status
   - Employment working conditons

1a. Physical Environment
- Barrier: Time consuming to rebuild, utilizing volunteer supports

2a. Income & Social Status
- Barrier: Dealing with insurance companies. People have no income
- Facilitator: Implementing an emergency financial support plan via banks or government

3a. Employment/ Working Conditions
- Barrier: You either don’t work at all and then others who are now working in hazard environments
- Facilitators: Work skills registry. Also improve education program. post emergency education/training

Community response: panic at first, then overall more then just the community worked together

Question 5

Fort McMurray: Group 5

Answer 5

Event

• July 2016
• $3.6 billion in damages
• 996 Km perimeter
• 740, 00 hectors of forest

1. Three SDH
   - Housing
   - Job insecurity
   - Food insecurity

1a. Housing
- Barriers: Mandatory evacuation, cost of rebuilding, displacement, looters
- Facilitators: Cost of insurance companies, cost of housing, resilience/ people not leaving area

2a. Job Insecurity
- Barriers: Oil rigs, trappers, fire fighters, unemployment
- Facilitators: Opportunity for employment, construction boom, environment (smoke)

3a. Food Insecurity
- Barrier: FN/fire damages, 2000 infrastructures destroyed
- Facilitators: Soil damage (forest regrowth), support for local businesses/ replanting, environment concern

Question 6

Fort McMurray: Group 5

Answer 6

Event

• May 1, 2017- Aug 2, 2017
• 80,00 people evacuated (80% indigenous)
• 9.9 billion in damages
• 5900K damaged
• Individuals from in and out of province helped as well as South African fire fighters

1. Three SDH
   - Housing
   - Stress, bodies, illnes
   - Income

1a. Housing
- Still building/ recovering

2a. Stress, Bodies, Illness
- 33,9% reported a health condition e.g respiratory, mental health

3a. Income & Income Distribution
- Insurance companies: bare minimum/ rebuilding with more fireproof material or homes in flood plains moved
- Environmental conditions still causing health concerns. temporary clinics in rec areas
- People with lower income affected more than those with more income
- Budget cuts earlier in the year forest fire prep, prevention and mitigation as well as wide fire management base operating budget