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haze-1997
What is Haze?
Haze consists of sufficient smoke, dust, moisture, and vapour suspended in air to
impair visibility. Haze pollution can be said to be transboundary if its density and
extent is so great at source that it remains at measurable levels after crossing into
another countrys air space (Forsyth, 2014).
Risk assessment
Risk assessment is the process of estimating the potential impact of a chemical, physical,
microbiological or psychosocial hazard on a specified human population or ecological
system under a specific set of conditions and for a certain time space (Rodericks, 1994).
Risk management
Risk management is the process which evaluates how to protect public health (EPA, 2016).
Risk communication
Risk communication is vital information which is passed on to people who may be at risk.
This can take two forms one is proactive and the other is reactive (Abkowitz, 2002).
Risk assessment
The blaze of 1997-1998, which
Risk management
Preparedness
Prevention
recorded history.
More than 9 million hectares of
Risk communication
Local Agencies
Vulnerable groups
Jamaica Legislation
Every person who sets fire to any crop shall be guilty of an offence against this Act:
Provided that fire may be set, subject to the provisions of sections 4 and 5, to
growing sugar cane for the purpose of ridding it of any vine or other pest (The
Countrys Fire Act, 1942).
References
Abkowitz, M. D. (2002). Environmental Risk Communication What is it and how can it
work?. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION-WACO-, 13(10), 44-44.
Environmental Protection Agency. (2016). Risk management. Retrieved from
https://www.epa.gov/risk/risk-management
Flagan, R. C., & Seinfeld, J. H. (2013). Fundamentals of air pollution engineering. Courier
Corporation.
Forsyth, T. (2014). Public concerns about transboundary haze: A comparison of Indonesia,
Singapore, and Malaysia. Global Environmental Change, 25,76-86.
Heil, A., & Goldammer, J. (2001). Smoke-haze pollution: A review of the 1997 episode in
Southeast Asia. Regional Environmental Change, 2(1), 24-37.
Rodricks, J. V. (1994). Risk assessment, the environment, and public health. Environmental health
perspectives, 102(3), 258.
The Countrys Fire Act (1942). Country Fire. Retrieved from
http://moj.gov.jm/sites/default/files/laws/The%20Country%20Fires%20Act.pdf