Natural Hazards Center

The Natural Disaster Center (NHC) of the University of Colorado Boulder Behavior Sciences Institute was founded in 1973 to strengthen and promote the knowledge base of young academic disaster research at that time and to help alleviate the damage caused by disasters. By sharing information on "every hazard approach to extreme environment", NHC promotes collaboration and "comprehensive activities" among researchers, practitioners and decision makers across the country, We will provide decades of continuity to communities and governments. Service world "(NHC, 2011).

I recently went to the southeastern part of Texas with a public health student at the University of Washington Last August, the influence of Hurricane Harvey still existed. With the support of the emergency response grant program at the Natural Disaster Center, I would like to understand how disaster recovery strategies can bring long-term opportunities to healthy communities. For example, the larger Houston has only a few affordable housing that was supplied before the storm. Buyers and tenants are currently competing to protect undamaged units. We have heard that families live in toxic moldy families, but that is because they can not leave, as prices rise took people to the city and other cities Because I am forced to move to a state or state. However, there are signs that the community is using hurricane Harvey to solve sustainable housing problems.

Despite the term "nature", natural disasters have human involvement. A physical event that does not affect humans like a volcanic eruption is a natural phenomenon, but it is not a natural disaster. Natural phenomena occurring in densely populated areas is a dangerous event. A dangerous event that causes an unacceptably large number of deceased or overwhelming property loss is a natural disaster. Natural phenomena do not pose danger and cause disasters in areas where people are not interested. Therefore, this definition contradicts the recognition of natural disasters. Natural disasters are inevitable damage caused by unlimited natural forces. It shifts the burden of cause from a purely natural process to the simultaneous existence of human activity and natural events.