Geography 2144A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Malnutrition, Risk Assessment, Epicenter

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 2144A/B
• Professor: Graham Smith

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Lecture 2: disaster and risk research (sept 20th) Documenting disasters: maintaining databases on disaster events can be difficult. Why: disasters can co-occur (hurricanes cause floods, earthquakes cause landslides etc. , mortality can be difficult to count (famine, epidemics, a general lack of census taking (in developing countries) Defining disasters: what events officially qualify as a (cid:494)disaster(cid:495), a threshold has been developed by the centre for research on the epidemiology of. 200,000 people: the impact is much worse in a smaller village, therefore, statistics must be placed in a community/regional context. Media and disasters: the media tends to concentrate on, human interest, visual impact, events close to home- more on north american events, prioritized according to a north american perspective. In a study by adams (1986), in terms of media attention, the death of one north american = the deaths of: 3 eastern europeans, 9 latin americans. September 21st, 2016: 11 middle easterners, 12 asians.