Course Title: Hazards Risk Management
Changes in human activities
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These trends, unfortunately, are predominantly increasing. While the effects of disasters worldwide are great, their consequences are the most devastating in developing countries. Smith (1992) lists six reasons for these changes (Smith, 1992)(see slide 2-9): Population growth Land pressure Economic growth Technological innovation Social expectations Growing interdependencies and complexities of systems and society The instructor can ask students to consider the different hazards they face, and describe whether or not they feel that the risk from those hazards has changed over their lifetime, or in comparison to what they may have heard from previous generations in their families. If students describe any differences, the instructor can ask them to postulate why these changes may have occurred or are occurring. Risk managers must be able to understand why trends occur, and why they change in rate or even reverse. It is not uncommon, for instance, for a trend to exist that is based on incomplete records, or for an incorrect classification of events. The technology used to detect many hazards has improved, allowing for detection where it formerly was much more difficult or impossible. Therefore, the lack of recorded instances of certain disasters may very possibly merely be based upon a lack of detection methods. Trends aren’t certainties, and because the driving forces behind them can reverse, so can the associated trend. Recent trends indicate that: Directory: hiedu -> docs docs -> Office: Parran 230 Phone: (412) 624-3124 docs -> Introduction to emergency management docs -> Emergency management and homeland security curricula: contexts, cultures, and constraints docs -> Deadliest u. S. Disasters top fifty docs -> Course Title: Comparative Emergency Management docs -> Comparative Politics and Disasters: Assessing Substantive and Methodological Contributions docs -> Hazard, vulnerability, and risk analysis docs -> Myths and realities of household disaster response docs -> Investigation of the Political Implications of Disasters docs -> Chapter 8: Business Crisis and Continuity Management and Planning Share with your friends:
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