technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ catastrophic accidents‚ fires‚ orexplosions. It is a phenomenon that disasters can cause damage to life‚ property and destroy the economic‚ social and cultural life of people. In contemporary academia‚ disasters are seen as the consequence of
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GOI-UNDP DISASTER RISK REDUCTION PROJECT Empowered lives Resilient nations Quarterly Report For the Quarter Ending 30th September‚2011 Implemented by Orissa State Disaster Management Authority Bhubaneswar QUARTERLY REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF GOI-UNDP DISASTER RISK REDUCTION (DRR) PROJECT FOR THE QUARTER ENDING ON 30.09.11 MAIN RESULT AREA I: INSITUTIONAL STRENTHENING 1. Formation and meetings of the SDMA and DDMAs‚ SSC‚ Inter-agency groups and expert/thematic groups a. State Disaster Management
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Seine and caused floods by spouting water and breathed fire.2 A Catholic priest from Rouen exorcised the beast in exchange having a church
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country .the goverment should take action toward those industries which use the natural resoures in wide range. ande give them punishment to them and save our planet from natural disaters. A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g.‚ flood‚ tornado‚ hurricane‚ volcanic eruption‚ earthquake‚ or landslide) that affects the environment‚ and leads to financial‚ environmental and/or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the capacity of the population to support or resist the disaster
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Cosmic Creation Myths Across Cultures The story of Rangi & Papa and Viracocha Leah E. Johnson University of Phoenix HUM/105 World Mythology Instructor: Kristen McQuinn July 21‚ 2013 Reading the various stories of how the world came to be is absolutely enthralling and totally captivating. One can lose hours reading story after story‚ especially since even each individual creation myth can have many various telling of the same story depending on region and individual tribes in a certain
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2014 © 2014 by the authors – Licensee IJASER- Under Creative Commons License 3.0 Research article www.ijaser.com editorial@ijaser.com ISSN 2277 – 9442 Investigating the sedimentation pattern at Ghazi barrage reservoir and impact of 2010 flood upon it Ishtiaq Hussain1‚ Abdul Razzaq Ghumman2‚ Hashim Nisar3 1 A student of PhD in Civil Engineering at University of Engineering and Technology Taxila Pakistan and working in Water Sector of Water and Power Development Authority Pakistan as
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storms and cyclones to widespread flooding and coastal erosion. Table: Potential Change of Climatic Variability Year Mean Temperature Change (0C) Mean Rainfall Change(mm) Sea Level Rise(cm) Annual Dec‚ Jan‚ Feb June‚ July Aug Annual Dec‚ Jan‚ Feb June‚ July Aug Baseline Average 2030 1.0 1.1 0.8 +3.8 -1.2 +4.7 14 2050 1.4 1.6 1.1 +5.6 -1.7 +6.8 32 2.4 2.7 1.9 +9.7 -3.0 +11.8 88 Source: Agrawala et al 2003:IPCC2001‚ 2007 Objectives of the Study To know the
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achievements were notable but in an era of rising energy prices and inflation‚ It became impossible for his administration to meet these high expectations. America had developed a "crisis of confidence" and a "national malaise" by the late 1970s. On July 15‚ 1979‚ Pres. Jimmy Carter gave the "malaise" speech‚ where he identified what he believed to be a crisis of confidence among the American people. He felt that the American people were no longer listening due to the assassination of important leaders
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WHO collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters - CRED Annual Disaster Statistical Review 2010 The numbers and trends Debby Guha-Sapir‚ Femke Vos‚ Regina Below with Sylvain Ponserre Annual Disaster Statistical Review 2010 The numbers and trends Debby Guha-Sapir Femke Vos Regina Below with Sylvain Ponserre (UNISDR) Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) Université catholique de Louvain – Brussels‚ Belgium Acknowledgements The data upon which this report
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perhaps have an understanding not to roll out low price engine vehicles simultaneously in a market. The dream of Indian people to own the cheapest car is likely to be fulfilled when they will drive away $2‚000 or Rs 100‚000 Tata’s Nano from July this year on the most congested and chocked streets and roads of their country. Can our local assemblers‚ or any other private entrepreneur or the government either really ponder or feel ashamed on this milestone achieved by our neighboring country
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