EARTHSC 2GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Biogeochemical Cycle, Plate Tectonics, Natural Disaster
17 Dec 2019
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L e c t u r e 2. Processes: physical, chemical, and biological ways in which events affect earth"s surface. Internal processes come from forces within earth: plate tectonics, results of internal energy of earth. Catastrophe: massive disaster that requires significant amount of money or time to recover. D i s a s t e r t r e n d s: recently, there has been an apparent increase in natural disasters. The un designated the 1990s as the internal decade for natural hazards reduction: mitigation, reduce the effects of something, natural disaster preparation, number of recorded natural disaster events hit a peak in 2003/2004. Economic damage: increasing over the recent years due to frequency and inflation. D e a t h a n d d a m a ge c a u s e d b y n a t u r a l h a z a r d s.
