Geography GCSE
Hazard risk
What Hazard risk means in Geography GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Hazard risk
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Reference: AQA
The probability that a natural hazard will cause damage or loss of life.
Topics that use Hazard risk
- Natural hazards (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Climate change
- Economic impacts of hazards
- Hazard mitigation
- Human-environment interaction
- Natural hazard
- Poverty
- Risk and vulnerability
- Urbanisation
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