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Environmental Hazards: Classification of

Environmental Hazards and Disasters

Meaning and Concept of Disaster:

Environmental hazards may be defined as those extreme events either natural

or anthropogenic which exceed the tolerable magnitude within or beyond certain

time limits, make adustment difficult, resulting catastrophic losses of property,

income and lives and become head lines of different news media at world level!

"he term environmental hazard may be distinguished from environmental

disaster as follows! #azards are the processes which cause an accident or extreme

event or danger where as disaster is a sudden adverse or unfortunate extreme event

which causes great damage to human beings as well as plants and animals, i!e!,

disasters occur rapidly, instianeously and indiscriminately! "hus, environmental

hazards are the processes where as environmental disasters are the results or

responses of environmental hazards!