Planning for Natural Hazards: Education and Decision-Making
The People and Place Podcast
Chapters
0:00
Intro
0:59
Introducing Gajendran Thayaparan
1:39
The importance of education in disaster risk reduction
4:05
What is decision-making?
6:53
Differences in decision-making
10:30
What are the most important sources of information?
13:43
Importance of community involvement
17:21
Decision-making in developing countries
20:52
Lifestyle choices and personal responsibility
24:06
Decision-making fairness and being equitable
26:58
Legacy planning decisions
30:45
Who pays?
32:55
Different levels of government in land use planning decisions
36:02
Effective communication networks
38:47
Outro
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The People and Place Podcast
Planning for Natural Hazards: Education and Decision-Making
Sep 14, 2022 Season 4 Episode 6
WSP Australia

This year on WSP's People and Place Podcast, we are introducing a miniseries titled Planning for Natural Hazards, and Dr. Mark Maund, WSP's Planning and Approvals Team Lead for Regional New South Wales and ACT, will be hosting it. Join Mark as he speaks with some brilliant specialists from around Australia who will contribute to the conversation around planning for natural hazards and a better future. In our fourth episode Gajendran Thayaparan, Associate Professor at the University of Newcastle in the School of Architecture and Built Environment, joins Mark to share his knowledge on the importance of education in disaster risk reduction. They discuss different types of education, decision making before, during, and after disasters and communities adapting to the new normal.