Global Issues

• Disasters. At regular but unpredictable intervals, people around the world are affected by natural hazards. These may be caused by climate and geology. The environment has also become hazardous because of human activity. Hazards may combine and become even more damaging and complex to address. Hazards become disasters when people's homes and livelihoods are destroyed. Poverty, human activities, population pressures and environmental degradation mean that increasing numbers of people are vulnerable to natural hazards. Increasing population and urbanisation is multiplying the world’s exposure to natural hazards.…