ENVS195 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Stormwater, 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake And Tsunami, Buffer Zone
11 Dec 2019
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High vulnerability in urban areas due to: rapid population growth and inadequate planning. People migrating from rural to urban, the population growth is so quick that the government does not have the immediate capacity for the influx of people coming. Informal settlements happen, people look and use whatever resources they can. They start living on land that people did not live there before for a reason such as high risks locations (ex very close next to a river: ecological imbalance. Huge significant impacts on ecosystems in urban area development (ex increased permeable concrete that causes flash floods) Urban areas using surrounding landscapes for resources or land impacts the ecosystem to cause and generate risks. The more people densely living in an area, the greater impact/effects of a disaster. Is there enough resources in case of a disaster such as escape routes or supplies: concentrated political, economic, and other resources. Greater impacts on a top capital city more than sub-cities.
