Cabora Bassa hazards

Information Hazards

Information hazards are risks that arise from the dissemination or the potential dissemination of true information that may cause harm or enable some agent to cause harm. Such hazards are often subtler than direct physical threats, and, as a consequence, are easily overlooked. They can, however, be important. This paper surveys the terrain and proposes a taxonomy.

Environmental hazards

Obstetric problems This is the most widely recognised environmental hazard of anaesthesia but individual opinions, as well as governmental and professional reactions, differ widely. Some feel that not enough is being done about the problem while others maintain either that there is no problem and that much research and finance has been misdirected, or that scavenging devices introduce an unacce...

Transportation hazards

Domesticating a white elephant: sustainability and struggles over water, the case of Cahora Bassa Dam.

This article explores the socio-economic and environmental impact ofCahora Bassa Dam and South Africa s destabilisation campaign on the communities and ecology of the Zambezi River valley in Mozambique. It argues that the historical memories and lived experiences of these riverine communities provide important insights into the history of the area and must take centre stage in any scholarly ana...

3.2.2 Failure Hazards