4 brian mc adoo pedrr workshop session 2
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What do Ecosystems What do Ecosystems have to do with have to do with
Cyclones, Earthquakes and Tsunami?Cyclones, Earthquakes and Tsunami?
Brian G. McAdoo
Department of Earth Science and Geography
Yala Village5 cm in resort
Yala Safari7 m tsunami
27 dead
Yala National Park
Sri Lanka
Shut Up
andand
Listen
Banda Aceh, January 2009photo by Alexandra Marvar
Batticaloa, January 2005
New Orleans, October 2005photo by Alexandra Marvar
Samoa, October 2009
(hazard x vulnerability / capacity) - mitigation
Risk
frequency/magnitude coupled human / environment system
risk = (hazard x vulnerability / capacity) - mitigation
engineering
policy
geoscience, cee
hazards
seismic
volcanic massmovements
climate
RISK
resilienceecology, anthropology,
sociology, economics
ecosystems
human systems
solutionscee, public policy
engineering
policy
RISK
Frequency
1907 AD 850 AD1350 ADAceh
Where Where waswas the coastline?the coastline?
2004 AD
1907 AD
1350 AD
850 AD
K. Monecke et al.A 1,000-year sediment record of tsunami recurrence in northern SumatraNature 455, 2008
Syiahrial
2009
Banda Acehphoto by Alexandra Marvar
Failed mangrove plantingUdjung Pancu, Banda Aceh
NAD, Indonesia
Wetlands as buffers and/or evacuation hindrances
SatitoaSamoa
PadangIndonesia
Photograph courtesy NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
ErosionRoute de Jacmel
Haiti
Gonaives, Haiti3 September 2008
REUTERS/Marco Dormino/Minustah
EnriquilloEnriquillo--Plantain Garden FaultPlantain Garden Fault
EnriquilloEnriquillo--Plantain Garden FaultPlantain Garden Faultkg
Erosion and earthquake?Erosion and earthquake?
deposition
erosion
T AT A
deposition
3 m tsunami3 m tsunami
7 dead7 dead
Petit ParadisHaiti
Riviere Canot
Erosion potentialHaiti
BwaCarrefour
Haiti
FlushingPetionville
Haiti
DownstreamCarrefour
Haiti
TruitierCite Soliel
Haiti
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engineerscivil (infrastructure)
fluid dynamics
natural scientistsearth science
ecology
social scientistsgeography
anthropology
plannerspolicy
implementation
NGOs/IOsdevelopment agenda
public sectorimplementing solutions
academiaconstraining the problem
findings
data needs
agenda and needs
needs and agenda
The Tsunami ProjectTransdisciplinary Approaches to Tsunami Risk Reduction
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• predictive models
• structural effects
• solutions
• past is key to present
• frequency-magnitude
• hazard ID
• political structures
• economies
• culture
• infrastructure
• regulations
• design life
http://tsunamiproject.org
The Tsunami ProjectTransdisciplinary Approaches to Tsunami Risk Reduction
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the world.
www. t s un am ip r o j e c t . org
we find it hitched to everything else in the world.
- John Muir
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