Hazard 05
Hazard 05 :
"natural and social systems interact to produce a hazard" (Burton et al. 1993, 24). Hazards always result from interaction of physical and human systems. To treat them as though they were wholly climatic or geologic or political or economic is to risk omission of components that must be taken into account if sound solutions for them are to be found (Burton et al. 1993, 188). nature is neutral, and the environment event becomes hazardous only when it intersects with man. The event leads to disaster when (1) it is extreme in magnitude, (2) the population is very great, or (3) the human-use system is particularly vulnerable (Burton et al. 1993, 232).
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