Preparedness Plan

Preparedness activities increase a community’s ability to respond when a disaster occurs. Typical preparedness measures include developing mutual aid agreements and memorandums of understanding, training for both response personnel and concerned citizens, conducting disaster exercises to reinforce training and test capabilities, and presenting all-hazards education campaigns.

Early warning systems and hazard drills should be conducted in a timely manner to make the residents and people in surrounding areas aware of their roles and responsibilities in times of crises. This helps reduce confusion in case of an eventuality, prior training experience keeps the people calmer and proactive in helping themselves and those around.

Community building activities play a major role in making bonds and establishing an understanding among residents. It is especially important in the case of Grilstad as the residents are newcomers into the area, owing to the fact that Gristad is a newly constructed housing area. The community’s ability to trust and depend on each other, contribute to the larger goals of creating safeguards around the area using nature based solutions is key in ensuring response during a crisis.

Nature based solutions implemented as an open space network for public use on the extents of vulnerable areas can act as tide breakers. This is crucial in cases of storm surge protection and giving enough time to residents to respond. The concept of dugnads can be useful in activating people’s skills, time and efforts in building these spaces for use and protection.

In the Grilstad Marina area, there is a higher possibility of being affected due to sea level rise. The island is just over 3m above sea level currently while some parts are sinking slowly. This calls for a special need to ensure that people can still evacuate with relative ease. A system of temporary roads or passarella can be made to ensure mobility during flooding. Passarella have been used in Venice to aid pedestrian movement during ‘high water’ or high tide. This is a network of roads that appear when needed on specific routes as guides to navigate the city. Such ideas can be ideated and implemented in the low lying coastal areas like Grilstad Marina.

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Budget

Budget can drastically affect the nature and ability to propose and implement strategies in a contingency plan. Our scenario affords us substantial resources to plan for flooding due to sea level rise. Forming a Disaster Management Authority could potentially be one of the largest costs incurred, but it ensures the presence and collaboration of experts to deal with the risks and vulnerabilities.

The principles of this proposal are flexibility and incrementality, making it important to gradually build up on ideas and take next steps based on the results and effectiveness of the strategies. The strategies take cue from the context of the Trondheimsfjorden. The topography of the fjord protects life and livelihoods due to the stark modulations in the land forms. The idea of proposing a system that mimics ridges and valleys is intentional, allowing water to collect in the troughs and making it possible for people to rescue from the ridges. mapping, risk analysis and warnings Preparedness

We implement a series of nature based solutions in our context as some of the first steps. These are done to reinforce one of the biggest resources in times of crisis- the community. However, these are done as a series of experiments on a small scale rather than replicating the same module everywhere. This requires both skill and budget.

Here, we use the table to do a cost-benefit analysis of the proposed spatial strategies and other support infrastructure building.

Flood mapping, risk analysis and early warnings mapping, risk analysis and early warnings Preparedness

Iden�fying rescue areas and conduct rescue drills

Iden�fying rescue areas conduct rescue drills Preparedness

Iden�fying rescue areas conduct rescue drills Preparedness

Preparedness

Floa�ng walk-ways

Floa�ng walk-ways

Floa�ng walk-ways to areas for community ac�vi�es Collec�on community ac�vi�es

Green areas for community ac�vi�es water - open space network capacity to hold water

Watersquares - open space network with the capacity to hold water

Watersquares - open space network the capacity to hold water Collec�on