ENSC 310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Climate Change Adaptation, Environment And Climate Change Canada, Social Cost

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENSC 310
• Professor: John Andrew

Document Summary

Guest lecture: natural hazards policy development and implementation. Approach to natural hazards: 1. mitigation 2. preparedness 3. response 4. recovery. Reading week 6: natural hazards and disasters in canada. Without action being taken to reduce vulnerabilities, the probable result of these trends will be more frequent and increasingly severe natural disasters. Providing information that can be used to reduce the social cost and burden that these disasters impose is one of the principal objectives of assessments. Outline the general problem and highlight potential coping mechanisms that would assist canadians in reducing disaster losses. The human and economic loss generated by natural disasters can be reduced through informed mitigation and planning. This is important because canada has suffered many economic and personal losses, some communities may be located in less hazardous places that others, but all canadians face risk directly or indirectly related to the natural environment. Canada and the world are becoming more vulnerable.