GEOL 106 Lecture : GEOL 106 notes.docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering
• Course: GEOL 106
• Professor: John Hanes

Document Summary

Civilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice. Nature can jump up and hit us in the face. Population growth has caused an increase in death from natural disasters. Step 1- carry out studies to understand the hazard. Step 2- determine the risk from that hazard in the particular region of interest. Step 3- determine ways that you could reduce the risk. Step 4- do a cost-benefit analysis to determine what mitigation techniques your society can afford to do. Step 5- implement mitigation techniques to the extent determined (warranted) by your cost-benefit analysis. 3 main factors that control how severe an excursion into the hazard zone is. Huge increase in number of usa laws on environmental protection. The world changes as we learn to see it in new ways. And the way we see the world depends on how we use it - david ruthenberg. We made all this way to the moon to finally discover earth -