Social Science Perspectives on Natural Hazards Risk and Uncertainty

Abstract

The human components of risk are at the heart of the most important difficulties for  analyzing 
the uncertainties present in the context of natural catastrophes. Volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, and 
other natural disasters are regarded as natural events. Based on prior experience these events are considered 
as risks as a further conceptual step that entails temporal awareness of hazards. Risks and the uncertainties 
surrounding their prediction arise as a result of the complex spatial and temporal interrelationships 
between natural and social environments and uunderstanding the complexities of these natural and social 
world interrelationships is the need of the hour. Risks have adverse effects on humans as well as nature. 
Natural disasters become dangerous as a result of how they are viewed as a problem within the system. In 
many human scenarios, such as air travel or local settlement, a volcano on Earth is dangerous and poses a 
risk in a variety of ways. The way that modern societies negotiate and think about risk is broadly 
acknowledged within contemporary social research.