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Local Hazards
Local hazards can result from natural and human-made factors, or a combination of both. Broadly, there are two types of natural local hazards. Climate and weather-related local hazards are called hydrometeorological hazards: cyclones, hurricanes, typhoons, and tornadoes; sea surges, tidal wave, flood (river and coastal), and flash flood; drought and heat/cold waves; thunderstorms and lightening; dust and hail storms; blizzards and fog; and avalanche, landslide, or mudslide. Earth movement-related hazards are called geological hazards: earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, and volcanic eruption. Some hydrometeorological local hazards have been attributed to global warming and climate change, and more controversially, to human-induced processes such as greenhouse gas emissions. These hazards are considered human induced natural phenomena.
In contrast to natural local hazards, human-made local hazards can include technological hazards such ...
- Africa, North
- American Red Cross
- History of Disaster Relief, Africa
- Chemical Disasters
- Air Transport
- Community Preparedness
- First Aid
- Agricultural Production
- Incentives, Intergovernmental and Intersystem
- Avalanches
- Bilateral Versus Multilateral Aid
- Intergovernmental Relations and Preparedness
- Private Sector, Role in Recovery
- Private Sector, Role in Response
- Data Processing
- Causes of Complex Emergencies
- United States, California and West Coast
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Center for International Disaster Information (CIDI)
- History of Disaster Relief, Ancient World
- Cyberattacks
- Food Distribution Infrastructure
- Community Response
- Bubonic Plague
- Hysteria
- Business Continuity Planning
- Mitigation, Benefits and Costs of
- Diseases
- Domestic Corruption in International Disasters
- Planning for Disasters, International
- Recovery, International
- Response, Management Strategies
- Early Warning and Prediction Systems
- Cross-Cultural Interactions
- United States, Great Lakes
- Asia, East
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- History of Disaster Relief, China and East Asia
- Economic Disasters
- Internet
- Evacuation
- HIV/AIDS
- Pandemic Planning
- Citizen Preparedness Programs
- Private Sector, Role in Mitigation
- Droughts
- Domestic Politics in International Disasters
- Planning for Disasters, Local
- Recovery, Local
- Response, Operational Strategies
- Funding, U.S.
- Cycles of a Disaster
- United States, Hawaii and Pacific Territories
- Asia, West, Central, and South
- ChildFund International
- History of Disaster Relief, Europe
- Food Contamination Disasters
- Mass Transit
- Fire Departments
- Malaria (20th Century-Present)
- Panic
- Panic
- Cooperation Between Civilian and Military Agencies
- Public Sector, Role in Mitigation
- Earthquakes
- Donations, National
- Planning for Disasters, National
- Recovery, National
- Global Warming
- Disaster Experience
- United States, Mid-Atlantic
- Australia and Pacific Region
- Coast Guard, U.S.
- History of Disaster Relief, India
- Gulf Coast Oil Spill (2010)
- Ports
- Home Preparedness
- Measles (1850-Present)
- Psychology, Mass
- Crisis Management
- Public-Private Interactions in Mitigation
- Fires, Forest
- Donations, Personal
- Political Support for Preparedness
- Recovery, Phases of
- Response, Stress Impacts of
- Modeling
- Education
- United States, Midwest
- Canada
- Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE)
- History of Disaster Relief, Middle East
- Pandemic/Biological Accidents
- Railroads
- Local Hazards
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
- Psychology, Personal
- Education
- Regulatory Approaches to Mitigation
- Fires, Urban
- Funding of International Relief
- Preparedness, Function of
- Recovery, Role of Governments in
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Emergency Management Resources
- United States, Mountain States
- Caribbean Island Region
- Defense, U.S. Department of Direct Relief
- History of Disaster Relief, North America
- Poverty and Disasters
- Roads
- Municipal Offices of Emergency Management
- Smallpox (20th Century)
- Social Work
- Emergency Response Guidelines and Regulations
- Risk, Government Assumption of
- Floods
- Fundraising Cycles
- Preparedness Policy Implementation
- Real-Time Communications
- Ethics of Charity Relief
- United States, National
- China
- Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response Associations
- History of Disaster Relief, Pacific Region
- Radiation Disasters
- Schools
- Personal Preparedness
- Tuberculosis (20th Century-Present)
- Stress Syndromes
- Emergency Rooms
- Risk, Individual Assumption of
- Heat Waves
- Politics in International Funding
- Private Sector, Role in Preparedness
- Research
- Ethnicity and Minority Status Effects on Preparedness
- United States, Northeast
- Desertification
- Doctors Without Borders
- History of Disaster Relief, Russia
- Terrorism
- Utilities
- Police Departments
- Earthquakes
- Survivor Guilt
- Evacuation Planning
- Structural (Engineering) Options for Mitigation
- Hurricanes/Typhoons
- Rejection of International Aid
- Research-Based Disaster Planning
- Technology
- Gender and Disasters
- United States, Northwest and Northern Plains
- Earthquake Zones
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- History of Disaster Relief, South America
- Wars
- Water Systems
- Private Sector Preparedness
- Famine
- Working With the Bereaved
- Evacuation, Types of
- Landslides
- Technology, Military
- Human Rights
- United States, Southeast and Gulf Coast
- Europe, Eastern
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- Public Agency Preparedness
- Fire
- Exercise Planning
- Pest Invasions
- Humanitarian Intervention Versus Humanitarian Action
- United States, Southwest
- Europe, Western
- Habitat for Humanity
- Public-Private Partnerships
- Floods
- Food Distribution Systems
- Sea Surges
- Income Inequality and Disaster Relief
- Evacuation Routes
- Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Institutional Coordination
- University Preparedness
- Hurricanes
- Healthcare
- Tornadoes
- Laws
- Glacial Melt
- InterAction
- Warnings
- Terrorist Attacks
- Hospital Preparedness
- Tsunamis
- Personal Preparedness
- Hurricane Zones
- International Law in the Prevention and Mitigation of Disasters
- Tsunami
- International Standards
- Volcanoes
- Politics, Domestic
- Japan
- International Medical Corps
- Volcanoes
- Language Issues and Barriers
- Winter Storms
- Politics in International Funding
- Mediterranean Region
- International Red Cross
- Wars
- Levels of Nutrition
- Protection of Civilians in Conflict Zones
- Mexico
- Interpol
- Mass Casualty Management
- Public Policy
- Middle East
- Lutheran World Federation
- Media
- Refugees
- Ring of Fire
- Mercy Corps
- National Incident Management System (NIMS)
- Relief Versus Development
- Russia
- National Governments
- National Standards
- Risk Communications
- South America
- Peace Corps
- Packaging and Tracing of Food
- Risk Management
- United Kingdom
- Red Crescent Society
- Paramedics
- Risk Perceptions
- United States, California and West Coast
- Relief International
- Political Economy of Food
- Social Impact of Disasters
- United States, Great Lakes
- Relief Rules
- Provision of Food in Disasters
- Training for Disasters
- United States, Hawaii and Pacific Territories
- Salvation Army
- Refugee Policy
- Victimology
- United States, Mid-Atlantic
- St. Vincent de Paul
- Refugees, Care of
- United States, Midwest
- State Governments
- Reserve Storage and Transport
- United States, Mountain States
- United Nations
- Transportation
- United States, National
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- Vulnerable Populations
- United States, Northeast
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- United States, Northwest and Northern Plains
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- United States, Southeast and Gulf Coast
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- United States, Southwest
- World Concern
- World Emergency Relief
- World Food Program
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- World Relief
- World Vision
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