Natural Disasters

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  • Natural Disasters
    • disaster - when a hazards has significant impact on people e.g the consequence of a hazard occurring
    • risk - probability of a hazard happening and creating loss of life and livelihood
    • vulnerability - risk of exposure to hazards combined with an inability to cope with them
    • resilience - degree to which a population or environment can absorb a hazardous event and stay functioning
    • hazard risk equation
      • risk = hazard x vulnerability / capacity to cope
        • some communities have high resilience - emergency evac, rescue and relief, hazard resistant designs
    • Pressure and Release (PAR) model - socio-economic context is important and the nature of the hazard

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