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Flashcards by rasan.anisha, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by rasan.anisha
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| Question | Answer |
| Core and Periphery | The concept of a developed core surrounded by an undeveloped periphery. The concept can be applied at various scales. |
| GNI | Gross national income. The total value of goods and services produced within a country together with the balance of income and payments from or to other countries |
| Advancing coasts | Depositional coasts that are growing as a consequence of sediment deposit and/or the infill of coastal marshes. Advancing coasts may also arise from a negative change in sea level |
| Exclusive economic zone | An area in which a coastal nation has sovereign rights over all the economic resources of the sea, seabed and subsoil, extending up to 200 nautical miles from the coast |
| Littoral Drift | The movement of sediment along a coast by wave action; also called longshore drift |
| Oceanic conveyer belts | A global thermohaline circulation, driven by the formation and sinking of deep water and responsible for the large flow of upper ocean water |
| Retreating coasts | Coasts along which the dominant processes are erosional, resulting in the coastline moving inland. Retreating coasts may also be caused by a positive change in sea level |
| Food miles | A measure of the distance that food travels from its source to the consumer. This can be given either in units of actual distance or of energy consumed during transport |
| HALE | Health adjusted life expectancy, based on life expectancy at birth but including an adjustment for time spent in poor health (due to disease and/or injury). It is the equivalent number of years in full health that a newborn can expect to live, based on current rates of ill health and mortality |
| Transnational Corporation | A firm that owns or controls productive operations in more than one country through foreign direct investment |
| Disaster | A major hazard event that causes widespread disruption to a community or region that the affected community is unable to deal with adequately without outside help |
| Hazard | A threat that has the potential to cause loss of life, injury, property damage, socio-economic disruption or environmental degradation |
| Hazard event | The occurrence of a hazard, the effects of which change demographic, economic and/or environmental conditions |
| Risk | The probability of a hazard event causing harmful consequences |
| Vulnerability | The susceptibility of a community to a hazard or to the impacts of a hazard event |
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