Webpage to help the teaching of the following syllabus point:

• Definition:
  
  • Distinguish between a hazard event and a disaster. Explain why this distinction is not always completely objective.
• Measuring Disasters:
  
  • Describe the methods used to quantify the spatial extent and intensity of disasters.
  • Explain the causes and impacts of any one disaster resulting from a natural hazard.
  • Explain the causes and impacts of any one recent human-induced hazard event or disaster.
  • Examine the ways in which the intensity and impacts of disasters vary in space and have changed over time.

The webpage works on the assumption that the students have already looked at a variety of different case studies.  It includes an open-ended task based upon hazard data and news articles to aid discussion about  the methods used to quantify the spatial extent and intensity of disasters.