Socio-natural Hazards

Question 1

give 1 case study

Answer 1

LANDSLIDE IN MASARA, DAVAO DE ORO (MINDANAO)
gold mining village
Non-stop heavy rains on Feb 2

The Maco Landslide
Human-induced hazard
Urbanization
Mining
Poverty and job insecurity
Poor land use planning and zoning

Question 2

“the phenomenon of increased occurrence of certain geophysical and hydrometeorological hazard events, such as landslides, flooding, land subsidence, and drought, that arise from the interaction of natural hazards with overexploited or degraded land and environmental resources”

natural hazards that are socially induced

Answer 2

Socio-natural hazards

Question 3

Drivers of Socio-Natural Hazards

Answer 3

• social practices are connected to vulnerability
• Anthropocene

POPULATION GROWTH
URBANIZATION
ECOSYSTEM DEGRADATION
CLIMATE CHANGE

Question 4

What constitutes a “disaster“?

Answer 4

The event: the environmental hazard triggers a crisis situation (The process)

The aftermath: recovery and adaptation

Question 5

hazards “that arise from the interaction of natural hazards with overexploited or degraded land and environmental resources”

Answer 5

socionatural hazards

Question 6

gives rise to exposure and vulnerability,

Answer 6

Extensification

Question 7

amplifies both exposure and vulnerability

Answer 7

intensification

Question 8

result of choices “hazards are inseparable from human action”

Answer 8

Vulnerability

Question 9

Social inequalities limit options, leading to occupation of hazardous areas.

Answer 9

Marginalization

Question 10

Powerful groups externalize risks and reap rewards from hazardous environments.

Answer 10

Facilitation

Question 11

socionatural entanglement humans as a geophysical force

Answer 11

Anthropocene

Question 12

“Nature“? -_____are an elastic concept, serving as a vehicle for ideological positions on human/environment relations

Answer 12

hazard and reward perspectives

Question 13

human-nature binary

Answer 13

• God’s gift
• object of conquest
• machine for consumption
• humans within nature

Question 14

a rupture in the metabolic interaction between nature and society/culture which derives from the mode of capitalist production and the growing rupture between urban and rural regions

Answer 14

Metabolic rift

Question 15

The city became the active, social subject—the place where society “really” is located—while the countryside was progressively reduced to a dominated, nonsocial “other”

Answer 15

Society-nature from city-countryside

Question 16

non-city spaces [like Laguna Lake] are “urban because of their relation to unfolding processes of city-making”

Answer 16

A “limit” to the city?

Question 17

_____ transforms city and non-city spaces, and amplifies or transfers forms of socioecological risk that are distributed unevenly among groups and across places

Answer 17

Urbanization

Question 18

Production of _____through accumulation by dispossession

Privatization and corporate economic activities as precursor to hazard exacerbation

Answer 18

hazardscapes

Question 19

neoliberal capitalist policies that result in centralization of wealth and power in the hands of a few by dispossessing the public and private entities of their wealth or land.

Answer 19

Accumulation by dispossession

Question 20

an analytical way of seeing that asserts power and as a socio-environmental space where the gaze of power is contested and struggled against to produce the lived reality of the hazardous place

Answer 20

Hazardscape

Question 21

the ways in which certain dev’t paths and growth paradigms are constructed is tightly connected to____, economic interests, and profit-strategizing

Answer 21

flows of capital

Question 22

____ have become instrumental in advancing a capitalistic view of nature through institutionalized policies on land and resource access that tend to favor the private sector

Answer 22

state policies

Question 23

to revive mining industry

Answer 23

Ph Mining Act of 1995

Question 24

“Even though there is often a marked correspondence between the space of causality of socio-natural hazards and the space of impact, this is not always the case.”

Answer 24

Spatio-temporal analysis

Question 25

Socio-natural hazards are influenced and created by multiple and interacting drivers.

Answer 25

Multiperspectivity

Question 26

_____are social constructs but those seated above the power structure highly influence how the society accepts the idea of socionatural hazards.

Answer 26

Disaster risk and disasters

Question 27

______ are phenomena that appear to be typical of natural hazards but have an expression or incidence that is socially induced because they are produced or exacerbated by human intervention in nature, often associated with profitable economic activities.

Answer 27

Socio-natural hazards

Question 28

_____ should give more emphasis on the “social” aspect of hazards. DRR requires science-based policymaking and practice

Answer 28

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