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intro to hazards
What is a hazard,
What is socio economic disruption,
What is environmental degradation
14
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hazard perception
What is fatalism,
What is adaptation,
What is fear
4
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human response to hazards
What is prediction,
What is prevention,
What is protection
7
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earth structure and internal energy sources
What is the cores temperature,
What is primordial heat,
What is radiogenic heat
9
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plate tectonic theory of crustal evolution
0
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plate margins (destructive, constructive, conservative)
What happens at a destructive pla...,
Where is a located example of des...,
What happens at destructive ocean...
8
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destructive plate margin landform
How are fold mountains formed,
How are trenches formed,
How are volcanoes and island arcs...
3
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magma plumes and their relationship to plate movement
What are hot spots,
Where are they distributed,
What can magma plumes explain
5
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forms of volcanic hazard
Flooding,
Lahars mudflow,
Mass movement
7
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spatial distribution of volcanic events
0
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randomness, magnitude, frequency, regularity of volcanic hazards
What is the volcano explosivity i...
1
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predicability of hazard events
0
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impacts of volcanic hazards
0
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short term and long term responses to volcanic events
0
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case study: icelandic eruption 2010 - impacts and human responses
How many people were evacuated,
What road was closed,
What did engineers do to the roads
9
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nature of seismicity in relation to plate tectonics
0
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forms of seismic hazards
0
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spatial distribution of seismic events
0
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predictability of hazard events
0
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impacts of seismic hazards
0
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short term and long term responses to seismic events
0
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case study: Haiti 2010 - impacts and human responses
What magnitude was haiti,
How many recorded aftershocks wer...,
What plate margin
20
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nature of tropical storms and their underlying causes
0
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forms of storm hazard
0
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spatial distribution of tropical storms
0
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impacts of storm hazards
0
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short term responses to storm events
0
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1) case study: hurricane sandy
0
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2) case study: typhoon haiyan
0
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nature of wildfires and conditions favouring intense wildfires
0
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cause of fire (natural and human)
0
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impacts of fire hazards
0
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short and long term responses to fire hazard events
0
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1) case study
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2) case study
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constructive plate margin landforms
How are rift valleys formed
1
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