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Environmental hazards and natural disasters
Authors:Eric Pawson
Affiliation:Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, 8140, New Zealand
Abstract:How can the apparently growing frequency and cost of environmental hazards be explained? Drawing on a range of examples, and especially the Canterbury earthquakes, it is argued that the creation of knowledge about these events depends on the interplay of lived and historical experience with scientific awareness. But often the vulnerability of places to particular events is obscured by popular use of the terms ‘natural hazard’ or ‘natural disaster’, as if human behaviour is absolved from any responsibility. It is shown how such thinking often increases the extent of the hazard, so that although we do not cause earthquakes, floods and bushfires, we are implicated and complicit in the outcomes.
Keywords:bushfire  Canterbury earthquakes  disaster  environmental hazard  flood
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