Learning Objectives
1. Characteristics of hazards • characteristics
• hurricanes (tropical cyclones, typhoons)
• droughts
• any one recent human-induced (technological) hazard (explosion or escape of hazardous material).
- Explain the characteristics and spatial distribution of these hazards:
• hurricanes (tropical cyclones, typhoons)
• droughts
• any one recent human-induced (technological) hazard (explosion or escape of hazardous material).
- Distinguish between the chosen hazards in terms of their spatial extent, predictability, frequency, magnitude, duration, speed of onset, and effects.
- Explain the reasons why people live in hazardous areas.
- Discuss vulnerability as a function of demographic and socio-economic factors, and of a community’s preparedness and ability to deal with a hazard event when it occurs.
- Explain the reasons for some sectors of a population being more vulnerable than others.
- Examine the relationships between the degree of risk posed by a hazard and the probability of a hazard event occurring, the predicted losses, and a community’s preparedness for it.
- Explain the reasons why individuals and communities often underestimate the probability of hazard events occurring.
- Discuss the factors that determine an individual’s perception of the risk posed by hazards.
- Examine the methods used to make estimates (predictions) of the probability (in time and space) of hazard events occurring, and of their potential impact on lives and property.
- Discuss these methods by examining case studies relating to two different hazard types.
- Distinguish between a hazard event and a disaster. Explain why this distinction is not always completely objective.
- Describe the methods used to quantify the spatial extent and intensity of disasters.
- Explain the causes and impacts of any one disaster resulting from an environmental hazard.
- Explain the causes and impacts of any one recent human-induced hazard event or disaster.
- Examine the ways in which the intensity and impacts of disasters vary in space and have changed over time.
- Discuss the usefulness of assessing risk before deciding the strategies of adjustment and response to a hazard.
- Describe attempts that have been made to reduce vulnerability by spreading the risk (aid, insurance) and by land use planning (zoning).
- Describe strategies designed to limit the damage from potential hazard events and disasters.
- Describe the range of responses, at the community, national and international levels, during and after a hazard event or disaster.
- Distinguish between rescue, rehabilitation and reconstruction responses.
- Explain how these responses are affected by individual and community perceptions.
- Examine the factors that affected the choice of adjustments before, and responses to, actual hazard events or disasters.
- Discuss the importance of re-assessing risk, and re-examining vulnerability, following any major hazard event or disaster.
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Hazards
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Earthquakes
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L'Alquila Casestudy
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Earthquake frequency
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Management
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Droughts in MEDCs and LEDCs
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Hurricanes
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Predicting Hazards
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Hazardous Environment
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Disasters and Responses
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Human Induced Hazards
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Adjustment and Responses
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Further Reading
- Japanese Reactor Is Said to Stand on Fault Line - NYTimes.com
- Interactive: 100 years of drought in Australia - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
- The Severity of California's Terrible Drought, in One Image - John Metcalfe - The Atlantic Cities
- Can Anybody Save California? - David Dayen - POLITICO Magazine
- ▶ BBC Radio 4 - Mapping the Void
- Aral: A Dammed Sea | Chloe Dewe Mathews
- 100 Days of the BP Spill: A Timeline - TIME
- Fukushima two years on: a dirty job with no end in sight | Environment | The Guardian
- Google Street View could be used to document earthquake damage : TreeHugger
- New Orleans defences strained as hurricane Isaac pounds Gulf coast | World news | theguardian.com
- New Orleans' Hurricane Defenses | Video - ABC News
- Hurricane Facts, Hurricane Information, Hurricane Videos, Hurricane Photos - National Geographic
- Typhoon Haiyan: fears not all survivors have been reached | World news | theguardian.com
- BBC News - Five ways people survive in post-typhoon Tacloban
- Humans to blame for scale of devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan, say experts | South China Morning Post
- Typhoon Haiyan: What's a Superpower to Do? | TIME.com
- Hurricane Katrina DVD Documentary, from Miami to New Orleans and Biloxi. - YouTube
- Hurricane Katrina Historic Storm Surge Video - Gulfport, Mississippi - YouTube
- Typhoon Haiyan: at least 10,000 reported dead in Philippine province | The Raw Story
- Typhoon Haiyan: In Tacloban, children ripped from arms, floating dead - CNN.com