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Displaying 105 of about 301 resultsTailings are a common by-product of the mineral recovery process. They usually take the form of a liquid slurry made of fine mineral particles (created when mined ore is crushed, ground and processed) and water (ICMM, 2019).
Plastic is a generic term used in the case of polymeric material that may contain other substances to improve performance and/or reduce costs, with plastic waste almost exclusively comprising one non-halogenated polymer and waste substances or objects which are disposed of or are intended to be disposed of or are required to be disposed of by the provis…
Fire related technological incidents can be defined as accidental or intentional events that result in the actual or potential exposure of responders and/or members of the public to a chemical hazard (adapted from WHO, no date)
A cyber outage is the unavailability of a service or resource (ITU, 1996).
Critical Infrastructure failure is defined as the failure in one or more of the physical structures, facilities, networks and other assets which provide services that are essential to the social and economic functioning of a community or society (UNGA, 2016).
Supply chain failure refers to an event in the supply chain that disrupts the flow of materials on their journey from initial suppliers through to final customers (Walters, 2007).
A substance or a material emitting, or related to the emission of, ionizing radiation (either in the form of electro-magnetic waves or particle radiation) is radioactive. Depending on the magnitude of exposure, the radioactive substance may become a hazard to human health; as such it is subject to regulatory control by national laws and national regulat…
Radioactive waste is radioactive material for which no further use is foreseen but still contains, or is contaminated with, radionuclides. Radioactive waste can be in gas, liquid or solid form (IAEA, 2018). It may remain radioactive from a few hours to hundreds of thousands of years.N.B. For regulatory purposes radioactive waste is defined as material w…
Violence refers to the intentional or unintentional use of force whether physical or psychological, threatened or actual, against an individual, oneself, or against a group of people, a community, or a government. Violence can either be targeted or indiscriminate, motivated by certain aims, including political, religious, social, economic, ethnic, racia…
Environmental degradation from conflict is defined as the reduction of the capacity of the environment to meet social and ecological objectives and needs (UNISDR, 2009:6).
A tornado is a rotating column of air, extending from the base of a cumuliform cloud, and often visible as a condensation funnel in contact with the ground, and/or attendant circulating dust or debris cloud at the ground (WMO, 2017).
A tropical storm is a rapid rotating storm originating over tropical oceans. It has a low pressure centre and clouds spiralling towards the eyewall surrounding the ‘eye’. Its diameter is typically around 200 to 500 km, but can reach 1000 km. The related hazards are very violent winds, torrential rain, high waves, storm surges and in some cases tornadoes…
Glaze is a smooth compact deposit of ice, generally transparent, formed by the freezing of super-cooled drizzle droplets or raindrops on objects with a surface temperature below or slightly above 0°C (WMO, 2017).
A drought is a period of abnormally dry weather characterised by a prolonged deficiency of precipitation below a certain threshold over a large area and a period longer than a month (WMO, 2020).
A storm tides is the actual sea level as influenced by a weather disturbance. The storm tide consists of the normal astronomical tide plus the storm surge (WMO, 2017).