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Tectonic Processes and Hazards
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AS level Geography (AS Physical Geography) Mind Map on Tectonic Processes and Hazards, created by Oliver Downes on 02/04/2018.
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Tectonic Processes and Hazards
Why are some locations more at risk from tectonic hazards than others?
Distribution and causes of tectonic hazards
Intra-plate processes
Plate boundaries
Processes moving the tectonic plates
Plate tectonic theory
Physical tectonic processes
Earthquakes and earthquake waves
Secondary hazards
Volcanic processes
Why do some tectonic hazards develop into disasters?
Hazards, vulnerability, resilience and disasters
Defining risk, hazard and disaster
Magnitude and intensity scales
Tectonic hazard profiling
Pressure and Release model and hazard risk equation
Socio-economic impacts
Influence of development and governance
Impacts in different types of country
Inequalities, vulnerability and resilience
How successful is the management of tectonic hazards and disasters?
Tectonic disaster trends and patterns
Disaster trends and context
Significance of disasters
Multiple-hazard zones
Tectonic hazard management frameworks
Responses to hazards
Stages of hazard management
Mitigation and adaption strategies
Mitigation = actions and interventions that a community may take to reduce vulnerability in advance of a tectonic hazard event.
Adaption = ways communities may be able to live with a tectonic hazard by making adjustments
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