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| Photo: Disaster, Image by Lavir Hamil Lavir from Pixabay |
2. Politicians, media & INGOs are continuously blaming “nature” and putting the responsibility for failures of development on ‘freak’ natural phenomena
3. Natural hazards like earthquakes, droughts, floods, storms, landslides and volcanoes causes disaster due to human acts of omission and commission rather than the act of nature
4. Marginalization, discrimination and inequitable access to resources makes people and cities vulnerable, enhanced by deforestation, rapid urbanization, environmental degradation, and climate change, hence disaster occurs
5. Vulnerabilities are repeatedly enhanced when decision makers and those responsible for the development of the built environment do not use information appropriately
6. Workable regulatory controls for disaster risks and other environmental concerns have been often poorly considered (reduced or ineffectively applied) in urban development decisions
7. Inequality, poverty, political ideology, class and power relations are root causes of vulnerabilities that turn natural hazards into disasters, making some more vulnerable than others
8. Many national and international organizations accepts inequality and social injustice intensifies the impact of disasters, that means ‘natural disasters’ are the responsibility for destroyed livelihoods lies on nature rather than responsibility of humans
9. Beside natural aspects, media should focus on root causes of disaster to inform general people with the help from the experts and stakeholders to shift in thinking and discourse
10.Labelling disasters as “natural” enables those who create disaster risks by accepting poor urban planning, increasing socio-economic inequalities, non-existent or poorly regulated policies, and lack of proactive adaptation and mitigation to avoid detection
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