GG231 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Scientific Method, Natural Environment, Foreshock
Document Summary
Hazards: threats to humans, both natural and non natural. Risk assessment: exposure to dangers, adverse or undesirable prospects and the conditions that contribute to danger. Increased populations: magnitude and frequency of events, consequences of hazards can be minimized, responses are reactive, search and rescue, firefighting, emergency food, water and shelter, reduce loss of life, property damage, anticipatory response. Integrated approach best solution: combine scientific understand, engineering and proactive disaster preparedness. Geography of risks: spatial variability of disasters and their impacts on individuals and societies, regional studies ( how culture has shaped the landscape) Lack of protection against dangerous agents and for weaker persons and items: disadvantages, lack of the resources and attributes to affect riks or respond to danger. Lack of resilience: limited or no capability to avoid, withstand or offset and recover from disaster, powerlessness. Inability to influence safety conditions, or acquire means of protection and relief: resilience, emergency phase, restoration phase, reconstruction i, reconstruction ii.
