Geography 2152F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Escherichia Coli, Epicenter, Nuclear Meltdown
6 Jun 2021
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Disasters can co-occur (hurricane cause floods, earthquake cause landslides) Mortality can be difficult to count (famine, epidemics) A general lack of census taking (in developing countries) Some people may consider certain events as a disaster while some people may not. = therefore, a specific definition of a disaster has been developed. A threshold has been developed by the centre for research on the epidemiology of disasters (cred); 10 or more deaths per event or. 100 or more persons affected (injured, homeless etc. ) or. For drought or famines, at least 2000 people affected. For technological disasters, 5 or more deaths per event. Statistical data is reported in absolute terms (number of casualties, billions of dollars in damage) The impact of losses is felt differently from one place to the next. 10 fishers lost in a remote village of 200 people vs. 10 factory workers in a city of 200,000. = therefore, statistics must be placed in a community/regional context.
