3.1.5.1 The concept of a hazard in a geographical context

Question 1

Negatives of HMC

Answer 1

• focuses more on management rather than impacts
• no indications of time scale

Question 1

Benefits of the HMC

Answer 1

• takes mitigation strategies into account
• considers how one hazard leads into the next

Question 2

Positives of Park model

Answer 2

• compares the significance of the event against normality
• can be used to directly compare two events

Question 3

Negatives of Park model

Answer 3

• doesn’t specify the steps taken before an event

Question 4

Negative of HMC and Park model

Answer 4

• no qualitative data
• doesn’t take into account the severity of secondary hazards
• simplistic compared to reality
• no account of spatial variation