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Natural, technological and social hazards form a central part of modern life. The variety, magnitude and extent of such hazards is enormous, ranging from everyday risks (e.g., automobile accidents, unsafe drinking water and the like) to rare, but potentially cataclysmic events (e.g., large earthquakes or nuclear holocaust). In the past, most hazards research has focused largely on delineation of hazard occurrence (location, magnitude, extent, periodicity), on the underlying physical causes of hazards, and on human strategies for managing or reducing hazard consequences.
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Waterstone, M. (1992). The Social Genesis of Risks and Hazards. In: Waterstone, M. (eds) Risk and Society: The Interaction of Science, Technology and Public Policy. Technology, Risk, and Society, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3634-1_1
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