Hazard Mapping and Vulnerability Assessment

Workshop Agenda

St. Georges, Grenada
March 2- 5 1999

Tuesday March 2 1998

9.00 – 10.00 Opening Ceremony
10.00 – 10.30 Break

Module 1 Overview of primary natural hazards in the Caribbean

10.30 – 10.45 Introduction
10.45 – 11.30 Earthquakes and tsunamis
11.30 – 12.15 Volcanoes

12.15 – 1.45 Lunch

1.45 – 2.30 Hurricanes/Coastal Storms
2.30 – 3.15 Landslides

3.15 – 3.35 Break

3.35 – 4.20 Floods

Wednesday March 3 1998

Module 2 Introduction to Hazard Mapping and Hazard Assessment

8.30 – 9.15 Economic, social and environmental consequences of natural hazards – Case Study of Hurricane Hugo, British Virgin Islands
9.15 – 10.00 Landslide hazard mapping and assessment

10.00 – 10.30 Coffee Break

10.30 – 11.15 Volcanic hazard mapping and assessment
11.15 – 12.00 Coastal storm mapping and assessment

12.00 – 1.30 Lunch

1.30 – 2.15 Earthquake hazard mapping and assessment
2.15 – 3.00 Flood hazard mapping and assessment

3.00 – 3.20 Break

3.20 – 4.05 Use of GIS

Thursday March 4 1999

Module 3 Vulnerability Assessment

8.30 – 10.30 Prioritizing hazards and Overview of primary assessment themes

• critical facilities
• societal
• economic
• environmental
• structural

10.30 – 11.00 Break

11.00 - 12.30 Critical facility analysis – developing a vulnerability matrix

• data to collect

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch

1.30 – 2.45 Exercise – conducting a critical facilities analysis

• questions to ask
• prioritizing facilities

2.45 - 3.15 Exercise – discussion of groups' results

3.15 - 3.30 Break

Module 4 Use of Natural Hazard Maps and Vulnerability Assessment in Development Planning

3.30 – 4.30 Introduction to exercise

Friday March 5 1999

8.30 - 10.00 Mitigation Planning case studies

10.00 – 10.30 Break

10.30 – 11.30 Mitigation planning panel discussion
11.30 – 12.15 Class Exercise

12.15 – 1.45 Lunch

1.45 – 2.30 Class exercise presentations (by participants) and Discussion
2.30 – 2.45 Closing ceremony