hazard, risks and vulnerability

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Hazard
a perceived natural event which has the potential to threaten both lives and properties
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Environmental Hazards
the threat posed to humans and the environment by natural events originating in it. natural hazards can be classified as geophysical or hydrometeological. Humans invariably make environmental hazards worse.
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geophysical hazards
hazards caused by the earth by tectonic/ geological events such as eathquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides and tsunamis
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hydrometeorological hazards
hazards formed by hydrological and atmosheric processes such as floods, storms,tornadoes and drought
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context hazards
threats that affect the whole world arising from global environmental changes such as climate change or from a major hazard such as asteroids and super volcanoes
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disasters
the actual consequenceas of a hazard or the realisation of hazards to casue social impacts such as loss of lives and livelihoods and econoic impacts such as damage to property and goods.
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risk
the probability of a hazard occuring and becoming a disaster as a result of loss of lives and livelihoods, goods and property
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vulnerability
shaped by state of human development, poverty levels, living in fragile enviroments and an inability to cope with hazards. vulnerability is shown in Dregg's model
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techno hazards
human made hazards such as the chernobyl powere station disaster of 1986
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Na-tech hazards
hazards caused by a combination of human and natural hazards such as the Fukushima power plant disater in 2011
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chronic hazards
hazards which are not one off events but are ongoing such as climate change and teh destruction of mangroves and the rainforest
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super hazards
one off hazards such as super volcanoes and meteor strikes
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the threat posed to humans and the environment by natural events originating in it. natural hazards can be classified as geophysical or hydrometeological. Humans invariably make environmental hazards worse.

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Environmental Hazards

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hazards caused by the earth by tectonic/ geological events such as eathquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides and tsunamis

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hazards formed by hydrological and atmosheric processes such as floods, storms,tornadoes and drought

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threats that affect the whole world arising from global environmental changes such as climate change or from a major hazard such as asteroids and super volcanoes

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