GEOG101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Environmental Hazard, World Health Organization, Cognitive Dissonance
27 Mar 2016
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Environment: refers to the physical or natural environment in other words, trees, wetlands, mountains, oceans, and so on. Geographers use the term physical or natural environment to refer to everything that is not human made. Environment focuses on human modiicaion of the natural environment. Environmental determinism followers of this idea believed that the physical environment controlled the culture of a society: ex. people from mountainous areas might be hearier and stronger than people from lat areas, because their environment is tougher . Research by behavioral geographers and psychologists has shown that some people are naturally risk takers when it comes to the environment. How humans react to hazards in the environment in very diferent ways geographers have extensively researched natural hazards and the human response to them. Natural hazards: environmental events such as loods, hurricane, earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunami, mudslides, volcanic erupions and droughts.
