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Editor’s Note
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What is This Module
About?
A Guide to This Module
Technical Summary
Module Overview
Unit 1:
What
Are Environmental Hazards? -- Background Information
Introduction to Environmental Hazards and This Module
When is Something a "Hazard?"
Establishing a Common Language: Some Definitions
Types of Hazards
Hazard Characteristics
Focus Issue 1, Part 1: Living on the Edge:
Why on Earth in the Floodplain?
Focus Issue 1, Part 2: Six Feet of Water
Over the Desert Floor: South Africa
The Role of Geography in Hazards and Global Change Research
Instructor’s Guide to Activities
Student Worksheets
Answers to Activities
Unit 2:
Are
Things Getting Better or Worse? -- Background Information
Introduction
Trends
Focus Issue 2: More Than Being in the Wrong
Place at the Wrong Time
Focus Issue 3: The International Decade
for Disaster Reduction
Data Constraints
Focus Issue 4: Getting the Numbers Right:
The Case of the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters
Disaster Proneness
Focus Issue 5: Disasters Make Us All Equal
-- Or Do They Really?
Instructor’s Guide to Activities
Student Worksheets
Answers to Activities
Unit 3:
Glossary
References
to All Units
Supporting
Materials
Appendices
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Table 1: Origins
of Environmental Hazards
Table 2: Richter
Scale
Table 3: Modified
Mercalli Scale
Table 4: Saffir-Simpson
Hurricane Scale
Table 5: Top
Natural Disasters by Lives Lost, 1945-1990
Table 6: Top
Natural Disasters by Economic Losses, 1985-1995
Table 7:
Top Industrial Disasters by Lives Lost, 1945-1990
Table 8: Examples of Connections Between Factors that Affect
Vulnerability (on student worksheet)
Table 9:
Contextual Factors Affecting Human Response to Hazards/Disasters
Table 10:
Social Trends Affecting Environmental Risks and Hazards
Table 11: Comparison of Responses to Hazards in Different
Locations (on student worksheet)
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Figure 1: UNDRO's
Disaster-Proneness Index
Figure 2: Change in Hazard Occurrence (blank timeline on student
worksheet)
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