Geography 2152F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Disaster Risk Reduction, Emergency Management, Natural Disaster
11 Apr 2014
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Chapter 1 addressing the root causes of large-scale disasters. Definitions are given indicating that the term natural disaster might be a misnomer because disasters tends to require human input to occur, making few disasters be truly natural . Vulnerability is shown to arise from population, economic and political factors. Each event representing a potential hazard, peril, or danger must be separated from a disaster where casualties and/or damage are witnessed. Conditions that become disastrous but with less clear start and end points are also others incorporated. Catastrophic: disasters that can be identified with specific events. Chronic: disasters that still overwhelm a community"s ability to cope, yet are part of daily life. Creeping environmental problems and creeping environmental changes : describe ongoing changes that overwhelm a community"s ability to cope. Longer term processes are often termed disaster conditions and disaster events . Natural disasters: refer to a disaster in which the hazard or event originates in the environment.
