Negative impacts of volcanoes include destruction of homes and property, damage to infrastructure like bridges and roads, health issues from ash, environmental destruction from forest fires, and deaths or injuries. Positive impacts are volcanic ash providing nutrients to soil, enabling geothermal energy production, and attracting mining and tourism. Strategies to reduce impacts involve monitoring volcanoes, establishing exclusion zones if activity becomes dangerous, and early warning systems so people can evacuate to safer areas.

1.  Negative Impacts
 Positive Impacts
 Strategies to reduce the impacts
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*Destruction of homes & property, leaving many
homeless
*Damage of infrastructure e.g. bridges, roads
and railways

3. *The ash from volcanoes may makes breathing difficult and
can cause health problems such as asthma and coughs
*Destroy the environment and may ignite forest fires
*Injuries & deaths
*Disruption of daily activities, transportation due to poor
visibility

4. *
*Volcanic ash provide nutrients to the soil
*Produce Geothermal Energy
*Groundwater heated by rising magma is used for
domestic heating and to generate electricity

5. *Presence of rocks & minerals. Mining industries set up
around the volcanoes to harvest them
*Attract tourists to the volcanic areas

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*Setting up a Monitoring center to observe volcanic
activity
*If the level of volcanic activity will present any danger to
people living near to volcano, Exclusion zones have to be
declare
*Early warning should be issue to people living in the
danger zone of active volcanoes
*With the early warning, people can quickly evacuate to a
safer zone