Geography 2152F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Good Agricultural Practice, Cloud Seeding, Crop Yield
22 Apr 2016
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Reading #2 review questions: over the past century, how have the number of disastrous natural hazards occurring in. A range of response encompasses all the ways in which a society may act to reduce the impact of a hazard. Adjustment: building a dam to store water fir a drought, designing a house to resist storm surges. Adaptation: organizing a community beyond the storm surge, developing good agricultural practices: give two negative impacts of the improvement of water supply facilities in the sahel region of africa which lead to a new type of hazard there. Society became more vulnerable to disloacation when drought struck. Marketing and other economic measures taken by the government caused severe distress to cultivators as well as herdsmen: give two examples of incidental adjustments as described in the reading. Improvement in strength of building materials has reduced vulnerability to hazards. To dissipate hail storms or to increase precipitation. Useful to reduce hail as it is a hazard.
