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Hazards - Physical Geography, AQA, A-Level

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Hazard
The threat of substantial loss of life, substantial impact upon life or damage to property that can be caused by an event.
Geophysical Hazards
Driven by the Earth's own internal energy sources, for example, plate tectonics, volcanoes and seismic activity.
Atmospheric Hazards
Driven by the processes at work in the atmosphere, for example, tropical storms and droughts.
Hydrological Hazards
Driven by water bodies, mainly the oceans, for example, floods, storm surges and tsunamis.
Fatalism
The acceptance that hazards are natural events, that we can do little to control and losses have to be accepted.
Disaster
Occurs as a result of a hazard - when a hazard seriously affects humans.
Risk
The likelihood that humans will be seriously affected by a hazard.
Vulnerability
How susceptible a population is to the damage caused by a hazard.
Prediction
Working out when and where a hazard is likely to occur, allowing people to respond to it.
Adaptation
When an area/population adjust their behaviour to be able to cope with future events better.
Mitigation
Action taken to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk to human life and property from natural hazards.
Management
Identifying the possible risks to human life plus infrastructure and allocating appropriate resources to tackle the hazard.
Risk Sharing
Sharing the costs of reducing a hazard, the benefits of preventing it or the costs of not preventing it.
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