GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Port-Au-Prince, Natural Disaster, Natural Hazard
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Nature is one of the most difficult words in english language. There is nothing natural bout natural disaster-u can learn the formulas. Take into the account political, economic, sociological and geographical in understanding the complex culture. There are no disasters in nature as such-when stars began to collapse becomes black hole pulling light-(cid:374)o o(cid:374)e (cid:449)ill sa(cid:455) it"s a (cid:374)atural disaster- it"s a (cid:374)atural phe(cid:374)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)o(cid:374) Distinction between natural hazard plus the humans, physical events and natural disasters. If humans are involved it will be natural disaster. If include animals and no human dies it will not be a natural disaster. The history of catastrophe is the history of juxtaposition. Natural disaster occurs when humans occur at the wrong place at wrong time. China, east pakistan, india, indonesia, haiti have record natural disasters. The effects of natural disaster tend to cluster in southern global countries. Natural hazards are produced by release of various forms of energy.
