Levels of Development Affect the Ability to Manage Natural Hazards

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Levels of Development Affect the Ability to Manage Natural Hazards

A natural hazard is an event that occurs without the influence of man.

It is an event which contains a level of possible danger. Examples of

natural hazards are those such as hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanic

eruptions. Development and levels of development are locations where

the state of developing (expanding) is taking place. Where a city or

town is expanding and building more buildings and structural

locations. The management of an event is the way in which the event

itself is controlled. The two types of natural hazards that I will be

discussing in relation to levels of development are hurricanes and

earthquakes. This is as they both effect locations differently as they

are both different types of hazards. An earthquake is a tectonic

hazard and a hurricane is a climatic hazard.

Levels of development affect the ability to manage a hurricane as the

more development there is, the harder it is to control the affect of

the hurricane. This is as the mor...

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