ATS1310 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Water Security, Human Development Index, Natural Hazard
9 Aug 2018
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Natural hazard: any natural/environmental process that has potential to negatively affect people, health, livelihoods & settlements. Technological hazard: human errors in controlling/handling technology (e. g. industrial pollution, nuclear radiation, toxic waste, dam failures, transport, accidents ) Natural disaster: the effects arising from a natural hazard, occurring in an area where there are vulnerable people, settlements, infrastructure, or other assets (human society) Na-tech disasters: environmental processes impacting upon human-made systems resulting in a technological disaster. If humans are not exposed/made vulnerable to a hazard, then it does not become a disaster. Disasters are historical, expensive, expose societal fractures (vulnerabilities; (in) capacities). They are rescue efforts (aid), instition & gov. policies. A natural hazard is a bio-geo-physical force e. g. geological, climatological, material (occur irrespective of humans) Lacking basic needs for life (food, shelter, clothing: low income, lack of support networks, lacking resources to participate in kind of lives that are customary in the society where one belongs ( relative" poverty)
