environmental hazard

is a threat to people and to what they value (property, environment, future generations, etc).

a threat to people and to what they value (property, environment, future generations, etc) and risk is a measure of hazard.' (Robert W. Kates and Jeanne Kasperson. 'Comparative Risk Analysis of Technological Hazards.' Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 80(1983) pp. 7027-7038)(7029). AN ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD IS THE THREAT POTENTIAL POSED TO MAN OR NATURE BY EVENTS ORIGINATING IN, OR TRANSMITTED BY, THE NATURAL OR BUILT ENVIRONMENT. Kates (1978) went on to define environmental hazard as 'the threat potential posed to man or nature by events originating in, or transmitted by, the natural or built environment'.

is the threat potential posed to man or nature by events originating in, or transmitted by, the natural or built environment.

a threat to people and to what they value (property, environment, future generations, etc) and risk is a measure of hazard.' (Robert W. Kates and Jeanne Kasperson. 'Comparative Risk Analysis of Technological Hazards.' Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 80(1983) pp. 7027-7038)(7029). Kates (1978) went on to define environmental hazard as 'the threat potential posed to man or nature by events originating in, or transmitted by, the natural or built environment'.

environmental hazard, n.Definitions

environmental hazard