Titlebook: Natural Disasters and Risk Management in Canada; An Introduction Nirupama Agrawal Textbook 2018 Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part

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,Defining Natural Hazards – Large Scale Hazards,range from affecting infrastructure, personal possessions, and ecosystems to negatively affecting individuals’ psychosocial wellbeing. Disasters are the aftermath of hazards caused by natural phenomena, set off by shifts in tectonic plates or atmospheric interactions in populated areas. The extant l

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,Defining Natural Hazards – Medium and Small Scale Hazards,al order are erosion, landslides, snowstorms/blizzards, subsidence and sinkholes, tornados and windstorms. Small scale hazards include extraterrestrial hazards, fog, geomagnetic storms, hailstorms, and lightning. The chapter also highlights examples of recent hazards in North America and around the

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Disaster Resilience,y building is now becoming a more popular term and concept in the context of disaster risk management. Resilience can be defined at micro or macro scales, depending on the objective of the research; for example, at the household, community, county, sub-national, national, regional, or global level.

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,Disaster Risk Evaluation – Other Quantitative Methods, in other developed nations. In the USA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has developed a method to help the insurance industry assess flood damage and subsequent compensation as part of the federal government’s mandate. The SMUG method was developed in New Zealand; and the World Risk

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,Disaster Risk Evaluation – Qualitative Methods, and cultures. Given recent advances in the social sciences and psychology, new theories and research in disaster management focus on understanding the root causes of individuals’ changing social, physical, economic and environmental vulnerabilities. Accounting for stakeholders’ perceptions is an im

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