ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION Efforts to improve the standard of living for humans--through the control of nature and the development of new products--have also resulted in the pollution‚ or contamination‚ of the environment. Much of the world’s air‚ water‚ and land is now partially poisoned by chemical wastes. Some places have become uninhabitable. This pollution exposes people all around the globe to new risks from disease. Many species of plants and animals have become endangered or are now extinct
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conditions of pesticide management and possible health hazards in Butajira‚ Ethiopia A Minor Field Study Report January 2004 by Malin Ahrne MFS-Report No. 1/2004 Department of Community Health Addis Ababa University Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine Umeå International School of Public Health Department of Public Health Sciences Karolinska Institutet 2004-01-12 The Conditions of Pesticide Management and Possible Health Hazards in Butajira‚ Ethiopia Investigator: Malin Ahrne
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volcanic hazards? (40 marks) A hazard is a situation that poses a level of threat to life‚ health‚ property‚ or the environment. Therefore‚ in this case a volcanic hazard is the threat posed from natural volcanic processes towards the populations and the environment. The extent of volcanic hazards can vary due to two factors; physical factors such as the type of volcano and human factors such as the population density in the area. Volcanic hazards can also be placed into two phases: primary hazards such
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Analyse the factors that cause differences in the hazards caused by volcanoes around the world (40 marks) A hazard is defined as something which has the potential to kill or cause harm. However a hazard is only a risk to people if they are exposed to it. This is when a hazard can cause disasters. For example‚ a volcano is only a hazard if the population comes in contact with the consequences of its activity. Hazards and their likeliness to become disasters can depend on many different factors‚ for
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To what extent can planning and preparedness mitigate the effects of volcanic hazards? A hazard is a situation that poses a level of threat to life‚ health‚ property‚ or environment. There is a very big difference that helps prepare for a volcanic hazard and that is whether you are in a MEDC or a LEDC. In a MEDC monitoring volcanic zones and potential hazards is an option many LEDC’s don’t have. In Italy at Mt Etna they have Geochemical monitoring programs currently run by INGV which focus on the
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effects of volcanic hazards? (40 marks) Volcanic activity happens across the surface of the globe and naturally hazards occur too. A hazard is a situation that poses a level of threat to life‚ health‚ property‚ or environment. It is easy to locate volcanoes‚ but it is very difficult to predict exactly when activity will take place‚ particularly a major eruption‚ this makes it difficult to prepare or plan for one. There is a very big difference that helps prepare for a volcanic hazard and that is whether
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To what extent can preparedness and planning mitigate the effects of volcanic hazards? (40 marks) A volcanic hazard is anything that can cause a threat to human life‚ infrastructure or nature as a result of volcanic activity. There are methods to lessen the effects of volcanic hazards to a certain extent through planning and preparation. Common volcanic hazards include: Pyroclastic flows‚ Ash clouds and mudslides. Pyroclastic flows are high-density mixtures of hot‚ dry rock fragments and hot gases
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the hazards posed by volcanoes around the world (40 marks) Your main factors can be put into two simple categories. Human and physical. From there you can then further explore the factors. In my essay I will mainly focus on viscosity‚ location‚ settlement and perception and explore how the physical and human factors intertwine with each other through one simple idea that physical factors dictate the hazard while human factors exacerbate the hazard. From here we must define a hazard. A hazard is a
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To what extent can preparedness and planning mitigate the effects of Volcanic Hazards (40 marks) More than 500 Million people live within 50 miles of a volcano‚ the potential therefore exists for major loss of life and damage to property and infrastructure‚ particularly when urban areas are situated in close proximity. Mitigation of such losses can be achieved through careful preparedness and planning. Preparedness is the process of ensuring that an organization has complied with the preventive
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Case Study The Amazon basin (equatorial) - the effects on tropical climate. The Amazon basin in South America‚ vegetated by tropical rainforest‚ lies within the equatorial climate zone and covers an area of some 8‚235‚430 km 2 mainly in Brazil. The Amazon River flows through the basin from its source high in the Andes towards its mouth in the Atlantic Ocean‚ and is the largest single source of freshwater runoff on Earth‚ representing 15-20% of global river discharge. At present the amazon rainforest
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