1.8C - Park's Model
Use of Park's model to compare the response curve of hazard events, comparing areas at different stages of development.
The importance of recovery can be seen on Park's Model: the disaster response curve, This well-known model provides a simple visual illustration of the impact of a disaster, and can be used to compare different events.
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It could be argued that the 2010 Port-au-Prince earthquake fits profile C because the devastation was still not 'fixed' by 2015 and incomes, health, housing and food supply remained worse than pre-disaster. Developed countries are more likely to correspond to profiles A or B, developing ones to C.