GGR100H1 Chapter Notes -Natural Disaster, Ozone Depletion, Urban Theory
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The city and nature: city is part of ecosystem, environmental processes are filtered through social arrangements of political and economic differences. (poor countries, bad effect of natural environment disaster) > natural disasters are directly connected to social processes. People who purposely build their homes on places that are more prone to earthquake disasters or steep hills prone to floods, are the ones who suffers most. They usually do this due to poor economic conditions in poor countries. Citizens of poor countries are usually the ones who get most affected by floods and storms because they do not have expensive technology to provide as much early warnings or rapid evacuations to area that are isolated. Hence disasters provide clear connection between nature and city. Natural appears more social and social life of cities as implicated in environmental processes. Nature has two different meanings: essential quality, material world that can include and exclude human beings.
