Natural Hazards and the Interaction of Physical and Human Processes

Natural disasters not only affect individual people in the area where it hit but they are able to affect the entire country from an economic standpoint. Other than the loss of lives, schools, and businesses which is the most obvious type of damage that we think of, most people rarely see the whole picture. One of the biggest problems caused by natural disasters is the disruption of the business world. This comes from damage to roadways and infrastructure. These cause major delays in production. It makes it harder to commute and communicate across the business world. The cost of the damage can be measured by several factors and also the type of natural disaster. One key factor that has an impact is the magnitude and duration of the event. Disasters that hit more populated areas have a stronger influence of hurting the national economy than if a disaster hits a less densely populated area. Changes in the peoples wealth can be affected due to damage to houses, buildings, structures, crops and forests. There are two types of losses when a natural disaster occurs. Direct losses and indirect losses. Some examples of direct losses could be homes, schools, and businesses. Examples of indirect losses would be all the components affected as the aftermath of the storm such as commuter disruptions, local tax revenues.

Hazards are anything that could cause damage to humans or buildings. Many volcanic and seismic events happen that cause hazards to humans. Often the world’s poorest people are hit the worst, however wealthier countries can also be adversely affected.

The natural disasters such as landslide, earthquake, volcano eruption, wildfire, tsunami are disasters that happens in earth’s system which is hydrosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere and biosphere (Van Wesper, C.J., 2000). As Malaysia lies outside the Pacific Ring of Fire it is excluded from volcano eruption and earthquakes. The most dominant disaster in Malaysia is the landslide occurs during rainy seasons.

Due to diverse geo-climatic conditions prevalent in different parts of the globe, different types of natural disasters like floods, droughts, earthquakes, cyclones, landslides, and volcanoes etc may strike according to the vulnerability of the area.

While natural disasters such as floods, drought and hurricanes are commonly thought to occur due to environmental forces such as weather, climate and tectonic movements; a deeper investigation into the ‘disaster’ displays other contributing forces. Human factors have a large, if not equal, contribution to the occurrance and outcome of such disasters (Pelling, 2001). As Pelling (2001) argues, there is both a physical and human dimension to ‘natural disasters’. The extent to which the natural occurrence of a physical process, such as a flood or earthquake, impacts on society is constructed by that society, creating a ‘disaster’ as measured by a

This paper is being submitted in details the effect that natural disaster has on the planet Earth. Analyzing the impact of potential natural disasters on: geography, resources, politics, economics, and disaster preparedness and how to monitor the future natural disasters.

According to the Industry of Public Health in Turkey, even though floods accure more often than landslides; it is the landslides that cause the greatest amount of damages to the structure and property loss in turkey. According to the 2012 World Report it has been ---- that the erosion of land causes more landslides as does deforestation lead to more severe floods; thus it is easy to pinpoint effects of land degradation in disasters and risk exposure. Another cause of risk explosion due to land degradation is deforestation, exposing the country to more floods; also decrease of biodiversity due to rapid urbanization which according to World Risk Report can “affect the coping capability of a country during a disaster” (World Risk Report, 2012).

While watching the everyday “natural disaster” filled news, did you ever fathom questions consisting the concerns as to why tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods occur every so often? When did society event hurricane season and why? Finally, are natural disasters indeed natural or man-made? To me, natural disasters arise due to the abuse of earths elements by humanity.

Earthquake with the pass of the years is changing in a hilarious way, an earthquake could affect in different ways the environment, for example; with the earthquake that occur in Mexico on September 19, one hour before the earthquake, the civilians were spending time walking, eating and the regular stuffs they do, they will never have imagined that an earthquake could happen in the fall, the event occur with a magnitude of 7.1. The damages were the destruction of buildings and houses, the shake moved the pipeline of gas and water, the murder of thousands and thousands of people. The disaster was very devastating for the Mexicans people.

Natural disaster, climate change and dramatic increase of human population, effect on food security, human and animal health,

The northern tip of the peninsula encompassing major cities and metropolitan areas lies in total chaos. The most populous region, including smaller urban and rural areas endured hours of Gail force winds.

Nadja argues that changing landscapes and climate could be the root of this more frequent natural disasters. As we interact with the planet burning fossil fuels impacting the ozone we are un-naturally raising the earth’s temperature. This raise in temperature has led to the melting of icecaps which has subsequently caused a raise in ocean levels. These warmer

Three people during a dangerous hurricane try to stay alive, and one person walks to the bathroom. While he is walking to the bathroom a window breaks and a piece of glass cuts him in the neck. They can not call the ambulance because of the hurricane. He later dies in her own home from blood loss. (bleeding to death)I wanted to research on this natural disasters because I want to help make the world safe and its life in the world. I care about the destruction of these natural disasters. There can be a building that is one billion dollars that is just built, then it was destroyed during a tornado or hurricane.The main point or question i’m overall trying to cover is that why don’t we try to stop or predict and help fight the disasters in the world. We can help in a lot of ways to help stop many things from dying or the destruction it causes.I think I can, I will stop this by telling the world that we can help prevent these natural disasters by helping each other to help predict and someday prevent them.

This paper will discuss the differences between two different natural and man-made disasters. The disasters that will be discussed are Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Additionally, this paper will look into the specifics of what constitutes a natural and man-made disaster. Specifically, this paper will look into each disaster to include the events surrounding them; the risks; and the assessments. Furthermore, this paper will look at some of the details of each disaster and why there was so much devastation. Finally, this paper will look at a few similarities, but mainly the differences between the two, and how the effects of each still linger today.

Myanmar is exposed to multiple natural hazards which include cyclones, storm surges, floods, landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, drought, and fire. Its coastal regions are exposed to cyclones, storm surges and tsunamis. The rainfall-induced flooding is a recurring phenomenon across the country while some regions are exposed to landslide and drought. Earthquakes and fires also occasionally occur.