Unit 1 Global Challenges
Section C © Pearson Education Limited 2013 Pearson Edexcel Level 3 GCE in Geography
18
1.
3 Topic 1: World at Risk
Global hazards Global natural hazards vary in type and distribution and fall into
two main categories –...
More
Unit 1 Global Challenges
Section C © Pearson Education Limited 2013 Pearson Edexcel Level 3 GCE in Geography
18
1.
3 Topic 1: World at Risk
Global hazards Global natural hazards vary in type and distribution and fall into
two main categories – hydrometeorological and geophysical.
The risks involved can turn hazards into natural disasters.
This
is especially true where a number of hazards occur together and
where the population is already vulnerable – often as a result of
high population density or poverty.
These multiple hazard hotspots
show how – when faced with disaster – the poor lose lives and the
rich may lose money.
Climate change Climate change is considered by many to be the world’s greatest
problem (technically a context hazard); and so a chronic, largescale threat to people.
Uncertainty about its impact is inevitable
as scientists struggle to make firm predictions.
It is an unfair
world in which the wealthiest countries have emitted most of the
greenhouse gases and
Less
