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1.4A - Defiinitions. Definition of a natural hazard and a disaster, the importance of vulnerability and a community's threshold for resilience, the hazard risk equation. A natural hazard is a natural events that has the potential to harm people and their property. A disaster is the realisation of the hazard, i.e. harm has occurred.
- 1.4B The par Model
The PAR model suggests that the socio-economic context of a...
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May 7, 2021 · Acknowledging a paucity of emerging research, and some variation by sub-field, the geographical measures of exposure used in health and medical geography have largely stagnated often focusing on residence-based (‘static’) conceptualisations to define an individuals mobility or exposure.
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The following subject specific vocabulary provides definitions of key Geography terms used in our A-level Geography (7037) specification. All terms stated in the specification can be used in the examinations.
The Concept of Hazard. A hazard is a potential threat to human life and property caused by an event. There are three major types of geographical hazard: Geophysical. Atmospheric. Hydrological . hazards caused by land processes, majorly tectonic plates (e.g. volcanoes) atmospheric processes. and the conditions created because of these, such as.
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Oct 3, 2024 · A hazard is an event which has the potential to cause harm to the environment, people or the economy. A natural hazard is an event caused by environmental processes and would occur without the presence of humans. The term hazard is used because of the potential impact when the natural event interacts with humans.
Oct 7, 2024 · Vulnerability is how susceptible an area or population is to damage from a particular hazard event. This can be affected by a number of factors including: Level of development. Population density.
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General Overviews. The wide-ranging literature on natural hazards includes a number of works that discuss various approaches to incorporating the interactions of the physical environment, the socioeconomic and engineered systems in which they take place, and the factors that define risk and vulnerability in different contexts.
