Geography 2152F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nuclear Meltdown, Love Canal, Eastern Canada
31 Oct 2018
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1: maintaining databases on disaster events can be difficult. Documenting disasters: disasters can co-occur (hurricanes cause floods, earthquakes cause landslides, etc. , mortality can be difficult to count (famine, drought, epidemics, a general lake of census taking (in developing countries) Some people may consider certain events to be disasters while other people may not. 2003 widespread blackout, 100 million people were without power. Love canal toxic waste spill (disaster: near niagara falls, chemical spill in the canal, lead to birth defects, three mile island nuclear meltdown, meltdown in pennsylvania in the 1970s. Therefore, a specific definition of a disaster has been developed. Exceptions to the cred threshold: technological disasters, 5+ deaths per event. For droughts or famine, at least 2k people affected. Statistical data is reported in absolute terms (number of casualties, billions of dollars in damage, etc. ) The impact of losses is felt differently from one place to the next: example:
