Natural Hazards and Droughts

When people think about drought, they will consider the short-term impact of the economy, but many people do not think drought will have a long-term impact on the economy. In addition to affecting the community and something, droughts can invalidate or damage the entire food chain, and ultimately it can cause serious problems for people around the United States. The focus of this white paper is the 2012 drought and its impact on the United States.

Disasters such as climate, weather, floods, droughts, hurricanes, tsunamis and other floods are the most natural disasters in the world, affecting the population more than any other types of natural disasters. Due to floods, storms, droughts and extreme temperatures, about 600,000 people died, more than 3 billion people attacked and economic losses of about $ 2 trillion occurred in the 20 years from 1994 to 2013. In the past 40 years, the reported hydrological meteorological disaster has increased almost 5 times from the 750 incidents between 1971 and 1980 to 3,500 incidents between 2000 and 2010 did.

Certainly, some natural disasters are inevitable. There are no places on earth that can withstand any natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, snowstorms, droughts, etc. But when we say disaster is a natural disaster, it minimizes the impact of removing any obstacles to us. It allows us to avoid planning the danger and to pretend to be inevitable a bad clash between man and the power of nature. Houston has a long flood legacy, but there is no flood evacuation place. Even though it is impossible to evacuate big cities, dividing cities into regions based on historical flood patterns solves a few problems. People in low-risk areas can stay and people in high-risk areas can evacuate themselves. Even during Harvey, Houston did not unify the flood