Natural Hazards
This type of weather event is significantly different from the average or usual weather patterns and can be severe or unusual.
Extreme Weather
The rapid expansion of urban areas into surrounding rural land.
Urban Sprawl
Energy sources that can be replenished, such as solar and wind.
Renewable Energy
A measure of economic activity calculated by dividing total national income by the population.
Gross National Income - GNI
The long-term change in the Earth’s climate.
Climate Change
The movement of people away from hazard-prone areas to reduce risk.
Evacuation
The process of improving and modernizing urban areas to boost the local economy.
Urban Regeneration
When water supply is greater than demand.
Water Surplus
Transnational Corporation - TNC
A company that operates in multiple countries.
Wilderness Area
The natural environment that has not been significantly modified by human activity.
Epicenter
The point on the Earth's surface directly above the earthquake’s focus.
Urban Greening
The concept of increasing and preserving green spaces in urban areas.
Water Management
The sustainable practice of managing freshwater sources.
The process of increasing the connections between countries through trade, migration, and technology.
Globalisation
A measure of the greenhouse gases produced by human activity.
Carbon Footprint
The scientific process of predicting where and when a tectonic hazard might occur
Prediction
The movement of people from the countryside to towns and cities.
Urbanisation
Drought
A period of time with significantly low precipitation levels.
The shift of some high-income countries from producing goods to providing services.
Post Industrial Economy
The percentage of people in a country who have basic reading and writing skills.
Literacy Rate
The strategy of building artificial defenses, such as sea walls, to protect against coastal erosion.
Hard Engineering
A squatter settlement or area of illegal housing in a city.
Slum
Resource Management
The process of controlling and monitoring natural resources so they don’t become exhausted.
A country with a GNI per capita lower than $1,045 according to the World Bank.
Low Income Country - LIC
Global Ecosystem
A community of plants and animals that have common environmental characteristics.