Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Tectonic Processes and Hazards
- Why are some locations more at risk from tectonic hazards than others?
- Distribution and causes of tectonic hazards
- Intra-plate processes
- Plate boundaries
- Processes moving the tectonic plates
- Plate tectonic theory
- Physical tectonic processes
- Earthquakes and earthquake waves
- Secondary hazards
- Volcanic processes
- Why do some tectonic hazards develop into disasters?
- Hazards, vulnerability, resilience and disasters
- Defining risk, hazard and disaster
- Magnitude and intensity scales
- Tectonic hazard profiling
- Pressure and Release model and hazard risk equation
- Socio-economic impacts
- Influence of development and governance
- Impacts in different types of country
- Inequalities, vulnerability and resilience
- How successful is the management of tectonic hazards and disasters?
- Tectonic disaster trends and patterns
- Disaster trends and context
- Significance of disasters
- Multiple-hazard zones
- Tectonic hazard management frameworks
- Responses to hazards
- Stages of hazard management
- Mitigation and adaption strategies
- Mitigation = actions
and interventions that
a community may take
to reduce vulnerability
in advance of a
tectonic hazard event.
- Adaption = ways communities
may be able to live with a tectonic
hazard by making adjustments