Disaster Preparedness and Management Assignment No. 1 [pic] Submitted to: Sir Muhammad Akmal Khan Submitted by: Tayyab Hasnain Janjua Reg # 14DD-410004 D.DRM Second Quarter Fall 2010 Disaster Management Cycle Disaster Risk Management includes sum total of all activities‚ programmes and measures which can be taken up before‚ during and after a disaster with the purpose to avoid a disaster‚ reduce its impact or recover from its losses. The three key stages of activities that are
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The article ¡§Pain at checkout as WA bananas go east¡¨ by Regina Titelius and Jennifer Eliot states that in the wake of cyclone Larry¡¦s unforgiving wrath on Queensland‚ banana prices have soared throughout the nation over the last month and are expected to rise even more following WA¡¦s wholesaler Mercer Mooney declared that Carnarvon bananas would be shipped east. Following cyclone Larry¡¦s destruction on Queensland‚ it has wiped out about 80 per cent of Australia¡¦s bananas destroying fruit worth
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Dispatch Oral/Practical Review for Final Test ALL 121 CARRIERS- Operational Control Authority- initiating‚ conducting‚ or terminating a flight Dispatcher/Captain joint responsibility- preflight planning‚ legal and safe dispatch release of a flight Dispatcher responsibilites- 1. Flight monitoring 2. issuing necessary information to ensure the safety of the flight. Ex. WX‚ NOTAMS 3. Cancelling or redispatching if the flight cannot be operated safely in the opinion of the dispatcher or PIC Captain’s
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The earth doesn’t have an even balance of heat and the reason for this is because the earth is a geoid ‚ the sun’s rays hit directly on the equator(caused by unequal insolation due to three factors: angle of strike‚ atmospheric depletion and surface area.) and then move outwards towards the polar areas. The atmosphere together with the ocean currents work hard to try and even out the imbalance of heat energy by redistributing the air from the equator to the Polar Regions but also from the Earth’s
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climate change. This paper discusses the possible impacts of climate change in Bangladesh through tropical cyclones‚ storm surges‚ coastal erosion and back water effect. The possible increase in cyclone frequency in the Bay of Bengal‚ lying south of Bangladesh‚ due to climate change is looked at by analyzing the cyclone data for 119 yr. Both qualitative and quantitative discussions are made on cyclone intensity increase for a sea surface temperature rise of 2 and 4°C. Different scenarios of storm surges
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3 THIRD REPORT SECOND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS COMMISSION CRISIS MANAGEMENT CRISIS MANAGEMENT From Despair to Hope From Despair to Hope Second Administrative Reforms Commission Government of India 2nd Floor‚ Vigyan Bhawan Annexe‚ Maulana Azad Road‚ New Delhi 110 011 e-mail : arcommission@nic.in website : http://arc.gov.in SEPTEMBER 2006 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA SECOND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS COMMISSION THIRD REPORT CRISIS MANAGEMENT FROM DESPAIR TO HOPE SEPTEMBER 2006
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Discuss the impacts of storm events in the British Isles and evaluate the response to them (40) The British Isles have variable weather‚ which may differ from day to day and many storms can pass unnoticed. They regularly experience stormy weather from depressions mainly originating in the Atlantic and move East to the UK due to its location at about 50 degrees north where the Polar Jet Stream will often cross over bringing these unpredictable weather systems. Depressions are areas of low atmospheric
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Disasters. London‚ Routeledge. Chakrabarti‚ P. G. D.‚ & Bhat‚ M. R. (Eds.). 1996. Micro Finance and Disaster Risk Reduction. New Delhi: Knowledge World. Choudhury‚ R.C.; Prasada Rao‚ K; Jena‚ A.C. & Chakravarty‚ B. (2001). Disaster Management: Orissa Cyclones‚ Floods and Tidal Waves Disaster (October 1999). Gaur‚ S.‚ & Chandrasekhar‚ T. 1996. Environmental Management: Role of NGOs‚ Risk Perception and its Mitigation. Jaipur: Book Enclave (NIDM 308). Joshi‚ M.V. 1994. Environmental Disaster: Causes‚ Impact
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CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF EARTHQUAKES‚ TSUNAMI AND CYCLONES EARTHQUAKES What are Earthquakes? ← An earthquake (also known as a quake‚ tremor or temblor) is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth’s crust that creates seismic waves. The seismicity or seismic activity of an area refers to the frequency‚ type and size of earthquakes experienced over a period of time. Earthquakes are measured with a seismometer; a device which also records is known as a seismograph. The moment
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ISDR Briefing Note 01 Geneva‚ September 2008 Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Weather‚ climate and climate change Defining climate change For most people‚ the expression “climate change” means the alteration of the world’s climate that we humans are causing‚ through fossil fuel burning‚ clearing forests and other practices that increase the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG)1 in the atmosphere. This is in line with the official definition by the United Nations Framework Convention
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