Geography 2152F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nuclear Meltdown, Eastern Canada, Love Canal
10 Oct 2018
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Documenting disasters: maintaining databases on disaster events can be difficult, why, disasters can co-occur (hurricanes cause floods, earthquakes cause landslides, etc. , mortality can be difficult to count (famine, epidemics, a general lack of census taking (in developing countries) Disaster impact trends: globally, most impacts from disasters have increased over time, property damage, economic losses, persons injured, deaths. Impacts have not increased in equal proportions: economic losses have increased at a faster rate than deaths. Increase in impacts: why are disasters impacts increasing, why are developing countries more affected, answers to these questions can be found through case studies, example, haiti earthquake (2010) Haiti earthquake: haiti has been the poorest country in the western hemisphere for many years, the m7. 0 earthquake occurred on january 12, 2010. It was one of the worst natural disasters in history; the death toll was over. Haiti shares the island of hispaniola with the dominican republic: haiti does not have a tourist industry.
