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as its air, water, soil, and other natural resources. Natural hazards like earthquakes or
storms or man-made dangers like pollution or habitat degradation might both be
present. Managing environmental risks is a complicated and difficult process that calls
for integrating the resources and knowledge of several stakeholders, including
governments, corporations, and nonprofit groups. Effective risk management entails
recognizing and analyzing possible risks, adopting preventative and mitigation
measures, and responding to and recovering from incidents when they occur.
Through hands-on learning and practical skills in detecting, analyzing, and mitigating
risks that have an impact on the environment, Work-integrated Learning Pathways
(WILPs) may be utilized to manage environmental hazards. For instance, their
programs might expose participants to real-world scenarios addressing environmental
concerns like pollution, resource depletion, and climate change in the disciplines of
environmental science, engineering, and sustainable business. They may use this
information to better understand how these variables may impact businesses and
sectors and to create plans for dealing with them. Additionally, WILPs can instruct
students on how to recognize and evaluate possible environmental dangers and create
methods for controlling and mitigating them in subjects like environmental policy or
conservation biology.