Hazards

Question 1

List me 3 types of nature of hazards?

Answer 1

Geophysical
Hydrological
Atmospheric

Question 2

What are geophysical hazards?

Answer 2

Hazards caused by earth process (e.g. tectonic/mass movement)

Question 3

What are hydrological hazards?

Answer 3

Hazards caused by movement of surface/underground water

Question 4

What are atmospheric hazard?

Answer 4

Hazards operating in the atmosphere

Question 5

What is risk?

Answer 5

Risk = Hazard * Vulnerability

Question 6

List me 3 different perceptions to hazards?

Answer 6

Fatalism
Adaptation
Domination

Question 7

What is fatalism?

Answer 7

Belief that hazards are uncontrollable, so accept losses and mitigation unnessary

Question 8

What is adaptation?

Answer 8

Adapt our behaviour so losses can be kept to minimum

Question 9

What is domination?

Answer 9

Belief that hazards can be predicted