Hazards
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- Created on: 08-12-14 18:01
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- Hazards
- Global hazard trends
- Hazard trends and the UK
- Try to lessen global warming
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29551063
- http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/27/greenhouse-gas-emissions-fall-in-the-uk
- Try to lessen global warming
- El Nino
- Australia and South America
- Teleconnections
- Knock on effects
- Urbanisation
- rural-urban migration
- Number of reported disasters has increased
- Technological development
- World population is increasing
- More access to information
- Information is more widespread
- LDCs more affected
- Hazard trends and the UK
- Global Hazards
- Types of hazard
- Hydro-meterological
- Hurricane/Cyclone
- e.g hurricane katrina
- Drought
- Dispersed
- Inter-tropical convergence zone
- Mid-latitude depression tracks
- Flood
- 80% of world pop on 33% worlds land
- excessive rainfall
- monsoon
- Landslide/Avalanches
- av 1,400 deaths per year-landslides
- avalanches slopes steeper than 35 degrees
- Avalanches av 40 deaths per year in Europe
- Hurricane/Cyclone
- Geophysical
- Volcano
- e.g Mt St Helens 1980
- Tsunami
- e.g boxing day tsunami 2004
- Earthquake
- Athenosphere
- Conservative boundaries
- Constructive boundaries
- Destructive boundaries
- Landslide/Avalanches
- Volcano
- Hydro-meterological
- Global Warming
- Human causes
- Burning fossil fuels releases greenhouse gases
- Deforestation
- Rapid population growth
- Poverty and politics
- Disasters have higher impacts on LDCs
- El Nino
- La nina
- Normal at extremes
- Atmospheric forcing
- permafrost thawing
- Human causes
- Types of hazard
- Global Hazard Patterns
- Philipines
- California
- san andreas fault line
- earthquakes/tremours
- Hazard hotspots
- Tectonic plates
- earthquakes
- volcanoes
- Asia
- Deforestation
- leads to landslides
- Deforestation
- Droughts happen anywhere
- cyclones/hurricanes
- 50-20 north and south of equator
- Coriolis affect
- Cyclone= southern hemisphere
- hurricane= Northern hemmisphere
- 50-20 north and south of equator
- Global hazard trends
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