EOSC 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Carrying Capacity
21 Feb 2018
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Risk is the chance of it happening (involves percentage) Vulnerability: a weakness that could be affected by a disaster and (or badly it could be affected) Risk: probability that any given hazardous event might occur. Risk is usually expressed as a probability ( chance of x happening ) Humans do not deal well with probabilities. Factors that affect human perception: vividness, drugs, phobias, media, personal experience, ignorance, culture, religion, age, lack of control. Events are not growing, but human population is. Carrying capacity: the population that can be sustainably supported within a given domain (e. g. earth) Population growth is luckily seeming to slow down. Presently, with warning people can be saved but infrastructure is destroyed. In the future, there will be more people and infrastructure becomes more important and vulnerable and people are less likely to be evacuated.
