GEO 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Coastal Flood, Nuclear Reactor, Power Outage
20 Jan 2018
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Intro to the human dimensions of environmental hazards: natural hazards, technological hazards. Living with risk: risk is part of everyday life in our society, some degree of risk is taken on in daily activities, examples, behavioural; structural, scale: small to large. Smaller scale events: many, common instances of damage caused by localized flood, wind, fire, etc . Regardless of the place, damage can occur, due to hazards : a hazard is natural or human-induced physical event that may have adverse impacts on life or property. Includes: natural hazards: extreme geophysical and biological events, technological hazards: originating from human-made technological or industrial conditions. Natural hazards: extreme geophysical and biological events, examples include, flood, cyclone, hurricane, wildfires, earthquakes, drought, tsunamis, blizzards, tornadoes, volcano, viral outbreak or disease, landslide. Categories of natural hazards: geologic e. g. , earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, avalanche, atmospheric e. g. , hurricane/tropical cyclone/typhoon, tornado, hail, ice, snow, hydrologic e. g. , riverine flood, coastal flood, drought, biologic e. g. , epidemic disease, wildfire/bushfire.
