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anthropogenic hazard

any hazard caused by human action or inaction, in contrast with a natural hazard or disaster
Class type of: hazard, unintended consequences Q2920615

Facts

10 properties
Instance of
type of risk
Subclass of
hazard, unintended consequences
Facet of
global risk[6]
Described by source
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Act on the Settlement of Environmental Pollution Disputes[7][8]
Different from
natural risk[12]
Has cause
human impact, human overpopulation[4][5]
Has effect
pollution-related disease[11]
Name
human-induced hazards[13]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Climate change[14]
Partially coincident with
health hazard, environmental hazard[9][10]
🏷️ Also known as
en public pollution en human-induced hazard en industrial pollution en pollution en anthropogenic hazard en environmental pollution da menneskeskabt katastrofe da menneskeskabt fare de menschengemachte Katastrophe es riesgo antropogénico es desastre antropogénico es desastre provocado por el hombre es peligro antropogénico fa خطر انسان‌زاد fr danger de cause humaine hi मानव - निर्मित आपदा hu antropogén kockázat hu antropogén veszély hu emberi eredetű kockázat hu emberi eredetű veszély
🔖 Identifiers · 7
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Ecological disaster - Man made soil erosion - 1 - panoramio.jpg ↗
BabelNet ID
00898351n
Freebase ID
/m/05ldbl
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/155s402z, /g/11bc6dsgnn
KBpedia ID
ManMadeHazard
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2777023926
NDL Authority ID
00566135

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🔗 Connections
← Category combines topics 7
Category:Man-made disasters by former country, Category:Man-made disasters in Israel, Category:Man-made disasters in Japan, Category:Man-made disasters in Canada, Category:Man-made disasters in India, Category:Man-made disasters in Belarus, Category:Man-made disasters in Guinea-Bissau
Examples 4
light pollution, 1938 Yellow River flood, ghost net, Dave Matthews Band incident
Subtypes 4
fraud, crowd collapses and crushes, environmental impact of mining, subsidence caused by mining
Described by source 2
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Act on the Settlement of Environmental Pollution Disputes
Has cause 2
human overpopulation, human activity
Subclass of 2
hazard, unintended consequences
Different from 1
natural risk
Facet of 1
climate change
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Climate change
Partially coincident with 1
environmental hazard
← Different from 1
natural risk
← Facet of 1
environmental hazard
← Partially coincident with 1
environmental hazard
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Summary

anthropogenic hazard is a type of risk[1]. It is a type of hazard[2] and unintended consequences[3].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . undrr.org. undrr.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . japaneselawtranslation.go.jp. japaneselawtranslation.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-07-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has cause → human impact, human overpopulation
    Facet of → global risk
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Has cause: human impact, разрешение перенаправления / resolving redirect human activity → human impact ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/KrBotResolvingRedirect/Q61788060_Q249"
  2. 16w ago · Sadads · 2026-07-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → hazard, unintended consequences
    Instance of → —
    Partially coincident with → health hazard, environmental hazard
    Described by source → United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Act on the Settlement of Environmental Pollution Disputes
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Facet of: climate change"
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