Are you ready?
	Mt Tavurur erupting at Rabaul, PNG (September, 1994) Photograph courtesy of Jim Parker
CONTENTS

Chapter 1  Preparing for disaster
	State of emergency declared for Katherine	1
	Disasters around the world	1
	What is the difference between hazards and disasters?	3
	What is a hazard?	3
	What types of hazards are there?	3
	Why risk it?	5
	Responding to hazards	6
	Enquire, decide, act	6
	Coming ready or not!	7
Chapter 2  Difficult to predict and almost impossible to escape
	Tsunami destroys whole villages in PNG	8
	Interview with Dr Sairere	9
	PNG people and hazardous coastal locations	10
	The context in which the disaster should be considered	11
	A tsunami as a disaster, hazard and an emergency	12
	Where else do tsunamis cause disasters other than PNG?	13
	Is Australia at risk from tsunamis?	13
	People-environment relationships	14
Chapter 3  Slipping and sliding
	Thousands stranded by mudslides and floods	17
	The view from Lawrence Hargrave Lookout	18
	Mass movement hazards	18
	What has happened in the Illawarra landslides?	20
	The Thredbo disaster	24
	The Gracetown cliff collapse	26
	A Landslides Awareness pamphlet	27
Chapter 4  Bushfires
	What fires need	31
	History of fire in Australia	32
	Bushfire Survival : A simulation game	37
Resources		39

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