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A System Engineering Approach to Disaster ResilienceImpact of Human Activities Inducing and Triggering of Natural Disasters

A System Engineering Approach to Disaster Resilience: Impact of Human Activities Inducing and... [The world is witnessing numerous scientific and technological innovations due to human effort in research and development and at the same time, Planet Earth is stressed, degraded and destroyed in terms of environment, ecology and climate due to global population growth, which is posing a great danger in it its sustainability due to consumption of abundant quantity of natural resources for the needs and necessities of global population. The global population shot up from 1 billion in 1800 to about 8 billion in 2020 creating a precarious situation for the earth in its sustainability as huge quantum of all forms of natural resources are consumed for human needs and in turn producing waste, pollution, depletion of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, emission of greenhouse gases in huge quantum causing global warming and climate change. The repercussion of nature being nature’s fury in terms of different types of disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, droughts, melting of glaciers, rise in sea level, wildfires, landslides, heat and cold waves, etc., which all cause loss of human lives, destruction and damages to infrastructure, epidemic and pandemic, etc., resulting in huge economic loss to the world. These occurrences are due to huge world population growth, which can be controlled and regulated by governance of the countries on wellbeing of global population and it is practically impossible to make the earth a sustainable one for the present and future generation. The solution for this criticality is to restrict population growth of the developing nations specifically in Asian and African continents, use non-conventional energy resources, implement relevant technology to safeguard the earth to maintain its sustainability by minimising trash, pollution, deforestation, limiting urbanisation, reducing greenhouse gas emissions in preserving the nature. The paper gives a glimpse of human actions which are causing natural disasters and the strategies that are to be implemented by regulations of concerned nations to ensure a sustainable world. Discussion and conclusions are drawn in highlighting the basic responsibilities of all the stakeholders in minimising the occurrence of natural disasters and sustainability of the world are bound to be ensured.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A System Engineering Approach to Disaster ResilienceImpact of Human Activities Inducing and Triggering of Natural Disasters

Part of the Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering Book Series (volume 205)
Editors: Ghosh, Chandan; Kolathayar, Sreevalsa
Sukumaran, K.
Springer Journals — Mar 2, 2022
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Springer Nature Singapore
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978-981-16-7396-2
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Abstract

[The world is witnessing numerous scientific and technological innovations due to human effort in research and development and at the same time, Planet Earth is stressed, degraded and destroyed in terms of environment, ecology and climate due to global population growth, which is posing a great danger in it its sustainability due to consumption of abundant quantity of natural resources for the needs and necessities of global population. The global population shot up from 1 billion in 1800 to about 8 billion in 2020 creating a precarious situation for the earth in its sustainability as huge quantum of all forms of natural resources are consumed for human needs and in turn producing waste, pollution, depletion of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, emission of greenhouse gases in huge quantum causing global warming and climate change. The repercussion of nature being nature’s fury in terms of different types of disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, droughts, melting of glaciers, rise in sea level, wildfires, landslides, heat and cold waves, etc., which all cause loss of human lives, destruction and damages to infrastructure, epidemic and pandemic, etc., resulting in huge economic loss to the world. These occurrences are due to huge world population growth, which can be controlled and regulated by governance of the countries on wellbeing of global population and it is practically impossible to make the earth a sustainable one for the present and future generation. The solution for this criticality is to restrict population growth of the developing nations specifically in Asian and African continents, use non-conventional energy resources, implement relevant technology to safeguard the earth to maintain its sustainability by minimising trash, pollution, deforestation, limiting urbanisation, reducing greenhouse gas emissions in preserving the nature. The paper gives a glimpse of human actions which are causing natural disasters and the strategies that are to be implemented by regulations of concerned nations to ensure a sustainable world. Discussion and conclusions are drawn in highlighting the basic responsibilities of all the stakeholders in minimising the occurrence of natural disasters and sustainability of the world are bound to be ensured.]

Published: Mar 2, 2022

Keywords: World overshoot day; Ecological footprint; Global hectare

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