DEMS 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lake Moeris, Asipu, Amenemhat Iii
18 Apr 2020
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Motivating concepts that guide disaster management are the reduction of harm to life, property, and the environment. The emergence of global economy makes it more difficult to contain the consequences of any disaster within one country"s borders. Epidemics and pandemics have resulted in sizable reductions of the worlds population as much as. 50% across europe during the fourteenth century bubonic plague (black plague) pandemic. Many of historical civilizations were brought to there knees not by enemies but by the effects of floods, famines, earthquakes, tsunamis and other wide-spread disasters. An action, event or object must maintain a positive likelihood of affecting humans or possibly have a consequence that may adversely affect humans" existence for it to qualify as a hazard. Evidence of risk management practices can be found as early as 3200 bc. Which is now known as iraq lived a social group known as asipu.
