Evaluate the view that responses to tropical storm hazards are affected exogenous factors? (20 marks)
In this essay, I will answer how tropical storms Hurricane Katrina and typhoon Haiyan responses were affected by exogeneous factors. These are factors which originate from outside of a place which include capital, people, resources and ideas.
One way exogeneous factors affected the response to Hurricane Katrina is the strong relationship to the wider U S government. When Katrina hit New Orleans on the 23rd of August 2005, it led to 80% of the city to become inundated. As a result, approximately 50,000 people were trapped inside their homes. Therefore, they had lacked the personnel needed to rescue these people; hence they had declared a state of emergency which led to the emergency responders from outside states to enter. Therefore, they had managed to rescue the 50,000 trapped people. In addition, there was a large amount of looting and civil unrest, hence outside people, of the National Guard, were deployed to reach a state of peace and order. Therefore, the relationship that New Orleans had to EU S government led to a response which had effectively saved the greatest number of lives.
However, in Typhoon Haiyan who lacked the capital needed to start their recovery and reconstruction phases, so individual towns like to lawn, did not have a direct linked with the government hence a week relationship. As a result, an already weak economy meant that on a national scale, the Philippines had good relationships with the wider Asian community which led to foreign aid amounting to $500 million. Although, towns like to lawn were unable to see any of the eight money because of the poor relationships. As a result, the local people had used their Purok system, which is a local scale set of emergency funds which are used by the locals who began their recovery.
Additionally, the Philippines government did not have resources of their own to predict the tropical storm and instead relied on a system run by China to determine storms. Therefore, due to a poor relationship meant that warnings were issued out too late to the affected people. As a result, a lack of resources meant that they were over reliance on other places to issue warnings of potential storms.as a result, this led to weak responses and lead to approximately 10,000 dead.
Overall, I believe that exogeneous factors do play a big role in the types of responses made. If a strong relationship means the responses will lead to a quicker recovery and rehabilitation which is will most likely lead to a higher quality of life then when has it happened as shown in the park model, then exogeneous factors are important.