Environmental consequences of natural resource exploitation often entail threats of future occurrences of detrimental abrupt events rather than (or in addition to) inflicting a damage gradually. The possibility of abrupt occurrence of climate-change related calamities is a case in mind. The uncertainty associated with the realization of these threats and their public-bad nature complicate the d...

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed an entire beloved city and shattered a large part of the US Gulf Coast. Unlike the destruction of 9/11, it is difficult to say at the time of this writing whether or not this region will ever be fully restored. In light of these and other man-made and natural disasters, the world needs to revisit its approach to disaster planning and preparedness to insure ...

The public attitude about irradiation of food has improved considerably. However, reinforced by media misinformation and visions of Hiroshima, many conjure up images of a mushroom cloud when they think of radiation. But most people now consider the many benefits that properly controlled radiation brings to society. The term “gnosophobia” has been used to describe the disease of “fear of the unk...

Now in these days’ green house gases is the main cause of global warming and affects the climate in the world. Environmental arguments centre on the need to reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions for the sake of both the global and local climate, particularly in large cities. Excessive exploitation of natural resources for development has been resulted into many environmental problems like en...

When natural occurrences affect populated areas and destroy local infrastructure population, they are referred to as disasters cause pain deprivation. India is one of the world's regions that experiences most frequently because its physiographic meteorological circumstances. Natural have been more frequent during past ten years or more, notably in India. Increased urbanization, industrializatio...

The Philippines is considered one of the most vulnerable and susceptible countries to effects natural disasters due its location. Therefore, country needs be resilient calamities it faces yearly. research aimed determine factors that affect protective behavior Filipinos during by integrating motivation theory, theory planned behaviors, ergonomic appraisals, adding variables such as knowledge ge...