Natural disaster
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A natural disaster is the consequence of the combination of a natural hazard (a physical event like a volcanic eruption, an earthquake, a landslide) and human activities.
Only if humans are there where the hazard happens and if they have no sufficient emergency management, there will be human losses. Therefore one can say: "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability" [1]. A natural hazard will therefore have no natural disaster as a result in areas without vulnerability, that means if for example a strong earthquake is in uninhabited areas.
[change] References
- ↑ B. Wisner, P. Blaikie, T. Cannon, and I. Davis (2004). At Risk - Natural hazards, people's vulnerability and disasters. Wiltshire: Routledge. ISBN ISBN 0-415-25216-4.
[change] Other websites
- Effects of natural disasters on the economy. Weather Economy. Retrieved on 5 November 2006.
- Disaster News Network. Retrieved on 5 November 2006. US news site focused on disaster-related news.
- EM-DAT International Disaster Database. Retrieved on 5 November 2006. Includes country profiles, disaster profiles and a disaster list.
- Natural Hazard Information from the Coastal Ocean Institute. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Retrieved on 5 November 2006. Particularly including articles on tsunamis, hurricanes and other storms.
- ProjectArcix: Global Disaster Information Portal. Overviews, consequences, government and citizen responses, and case studies of multiple natural disasters
- Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System. European Commission and United Nations website initiative.
- Modeling Multi-Hazard Disaster Reduction Strategies with Computer-Aided Morphological Analysis. Swedish Morphological Society.
- What the Development Programme of the United Nations (UN) does to reduce the human risks linked to Natural Disasters. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
- Pioneering Disaster Risk Index (DRI) Tool. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Provides key information on all countries in the world.
- Collins Fragile Earth photographs. Photographic evidence of the effects of natural disaster on the planet
- CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
