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Summary Of: Disasters
disasters are seen as the consequence of inappropriately managed risk... than 95 percent of all deaths caused by disasters occur in developing countries... and losses due to natural disasters are 20 times greater... more than a century researchers have been studying disasters and for more than forty years... a common opinion when they argue that all disasters can be seen as being human... All disasters are hence the result of human failure to introduce appropriate... disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability... because the events simply are not hazards or disasters without human involvement... Disasters caused by human action... made disasters are in turn categorized as technological or sociological... Technological disasters are the results of failure of technology... Sociological disasters have a strong human motive... Encyclodia Page On: Disasters
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