Understanding and Classifying Different Types of Risks

Understanding and Classifying Risks

Risk: It may be called risk to any action, process, or event which might cause injury, disease, economic loss, or environmental damage. With the exception of wars, natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes are those which reach a greater magnitude.

Classification of Risks

Cultural Technology Risk

Originating as a result of human error in productive activities (oil spills, radioactive leaks, industrial pollution,...) or lifestyles and socio-political activities (drugs, alcoholism, eating habits, smoking, war, dangerous sports,...).

Natural Hazards

Caused by natural causes (profound alteration of the environment as a result of natural processes). They can be:

Organic Hazards

Due to the action of organisms that can cause disease and epidemics (microorganisms, pollens, animals such as wasps, snakes, lobsters,...) and pests.

Geological Hazards

Physical phenomena that can occur slowly or quickly, and affect an area at national, regional, or global levels, and which are defined by the presence of certain processes (from external or internal dynamics of the Earth). When one of these processes is manifested in one place and at any given time, an event occurs which may be a mere event that causes changes, or become a catastrophe if it happens unexpectedly and results in serious damage to human activities. They can be distinguished:

Risk for Internal Dynamics

Seismicity, tectonic (deformation), and volcanic activity.

Dynamic Risk for External Factors

Derived from erosion associated with gravitational processes associated with the type of subsoil, partners in the snow and ice, associated with the dynamic river shoreline associated with the dynamic and dynamic derivatives atmospheric (gales, tornadoes, drop cold, storms, drought,...).

Physical Hazards

Cosmic (fall of meteorites, variations in solar radiation, ionizing radiation,...), Fires, ...

Natural Hazards Induced (Mixed)

Enhancing Natural Hazards and even promotion of these, as a result of human activities (desertification due to deforestation,...)