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Disaster Risk Management For Coastal Tourism Destinations Responding To Climate Change A Practical Guide For Decision Makers Although some of the following activities may have already been completed by the local disaster management agency, they provide a useful starting point for identifying and prioritizing risks: 1) Research newspapers and other historical records. These records will often contain dates, magnitudes of previous events, damages, and further evidence of past natural disasters. 2) Review existing plans and reports. National, regional or local disaster management plans, as well as local facility or business continuity plans, may contain information on past natural hazards affecting the tourism destination. 3) Talk to experts in the community, state or region. Start locally with the involved with past natural hazard events. Furthermore, state or national resource agencies, including the geological survey, water and natural resource agencies will have detailed knowledge about the nature and extent of hazards at the destination. University departments and research documents may also provide useful information. In more remote settings, talk to community elders who often have the best anecdotal perspective. 4) Gather information from Internet websites. The websites noted at the end of this Handbook can provide general information on particular hazards and their probabilities of occurrence. Search databases or computerized archives with a list of potential hazards and narrow the search by using the name of the destination as keywords. 5) Assemble a disaster chronology. Prepare a disaster chronology that lists previous disasters or emergencies that have affected the destination. Describe the magnitude of the event and extent of damages that occurred. 6) Convene a meeting of the Coordinating Group the preliminary research. Identify and assess those natural hazards that have repeatedly affected the destination or that the experts regard as the major existing plans. Prioritize and rank the list of all potential natural hazards using simple ranking techniques (see Table A.1, Appendix A). The outcome of this process is a short list of primary hazards that will receive more detailed evaluation in the following task. 52 | Managing Disaster Risks At Coastal Tourism Destinations
Disaster Risk Management For Coastal Tourism Destinations Responding To Climate Change A Practical Guide For Decision Makers Box: 4.4: Case Study – Vulnerability Assessment and Hazard Prioritization in Belize As part of the development of a national risk reduction plan, Belize held a vulnerability assessment workshop to identify its priority hazards. Based upon the experience of the participants, a qualitative priority matrix was developed to rank the relative importance of an inclusive list of potential natural hazards. The participants voted, using a scale from 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest), according to the following formula: Hazard Priority Score = (likelihood of occurrence + Area of Impact + Frequency of Occurrence) x Potential Magnitude of Damage 4 The results of this assessment were that the following four hazards were ranked Source: Country Report: Hazard Mapping and Vulnerability Assessment Prioritization Workshop for Belize. The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB); March 2004. 4.3.2 Determining the Level of Exposure of a Tourism Destination This task involves mapping the prioritized natural hazards that could affect the tourism destination by using the best and most readily available information. Vulnerability mapping depicts areas that are at risk from a potentially disastrous event, which could result in death, injury or damage to property and tourism infrastructure (see Appendix A). Assessing exposure levels is essential for preparedness planning as it directly affects destination’s vulnerability and ability to respond and recover from natural disasters. There will be differing levels of exposure due to demographic, topographic, geologic and built environment has on the anticipated consequences of hazard events. Vulnerability maps have value in all phases of disaster management i.e. prevention, preparedness, response and recovery, and also: Allow for improved communication about risks and what is threatened; Provide a visual understanding of vulnerability so that decision makers can easily determine where resources are most needed; Allow destination planners to delineate high risk zones when planning areas for new resorts, businesses and housing; Facilitate evacuation planning through testing of the effectiveness of evacuation routes for both tourists and residents; lives. 53
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