Sentences with phrase «hazard events»

But since then, there have been several instances of flooding and severe weather — including the snow and extreme cold in January — that the village identified as natural hazard events in assessing its risks..

For example, the researchers found many instances where the comprehensive plans included tax incentive policies to stimulate economic development in hazardous areas even though the local hazard mitigation plans identified the same areas as experiencing severe repetitive losses from hazard events and qualifying for federal funds for buyouts.

It is my view that by erring on the side of least drama, scientists are cowing under the fear of attacks from sceptics (which we have to recognise will come no matter what we say) and are failing to give policy makers an accurate picture of low probability but high hazard events.

Latest report from IDMC shows that 22 million people were displaced in 2013 by disasters brought on by natural hazard events — almost three times more than by conflict in the same year.

The closest analysis, published last year by the Prudential Regulation Authority, a unit of the Bank of England, found that big losses worldwide caused by what the authors called «natural hazard events» nearly tripled between 1985 and 2015, from 350 to 950 annually.

This question is shown as a word fill opposite and helps support the next question: (d) CASE STUDY — A non-UK based natural weather hazard event - Discuss the place - specific causes of your chosen natural weather hazard event.

For resilient communities, in advance of hazard events, the tri-level system (city, state, federal) of emergency response needs to welcome, effectively use, collaborate with, and coordinate the combined public and private efforts.

Every hazard event brings surprises and every disaster even more.

NCCARF: This project examines the likely impacts on the built environment of increased intensities in weather - related natural hazard events, in order to identify the possibilities of using the regulatory mechanisms of building construction, housing insurance and planning in climate change adaptation.

By scaling up loss from past disasters, normalization adjusts for the fact that a hazard event of equal strength will typically cause more damage nowadays than in past years because of wealth accumulation over time.