What can humans do to reduce the impact of climatic hazards?
- Created by: Jake199
- Created on: 18-05-14 10:31
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- What can humans do to reduce the impact of climatic hazards?
- Long term management of extreme weather
- Reconcstruct
- Re-build
- Build more resilient infrastructure
- Education
- Community Action
- Soft engineering
- Land use zoning
- Afforestation
- Washland areas
- Catchment restoration and managed retreat
- Hard engineering
- Channelisation (straightening)
- Artificial levees
- Dredging
- Mitigation against climate change
- Reconcstruct
- Short term management of floods
- Forecast/ detect/ monitor
- MET Office forecasts
- Satellites
- Warnings e.g monitor river levels
- Reduce impact
- Flood barriers
- Pumping and gritting
- Forecast/ detect/ monitor
- Management of Smog in Mexico City
- Free conversions to natural gas for buses and police cars
- Increasing number of natural gas stations
- Cars without catalytic converters are prohibited from driving one day per week
- Large oil refinery in city center shut down
- Improvements to public transport
- Long term management of extreme weather
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