GEOG 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Geomatics, Randomness, Landform
26 Feb 2017
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Week one geog 1350 earth: hazards and global change january 9th. Why studying natural hazards is important: so many people die, financial loss, property damage, loss of employment, etc, hurricane katrina was the most expensive natural disaster costing billion. Plate tectonics one of the basic unifying theories of science (large blocks near the crust) The average tornado expends about 1000 times as much energy as a single lightning bolt. Hazard the probability that a specific damaging event will happen at a specific time. Risk a subject of social sciences because it is rooted not only in hazard but vulnerability: risk = f (hazard, exposure, vulnerability, coping capacity) Disaster, natural disaster and/or catastrophe events that cause serious injury, loss of life, and property damage over a limited time and within a specific geographic area: ex: catastrophe indian ocean tsunami, hurricane katrina, etc. Mitigation efforts to prepare for disasters and to minimize their harmful effects.
