Natural Disaster What is natural disaster? A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction‚ lots of collateral damage or loss of life‚ brought about by forces other than the acts of human beings. General cause of natural disaster 1. Significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the environment. 2. Extensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ catastrophic accidents‚ fires‚ or explosions
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The Philippines is considered a disaster hotspot‚ susceptible to volcanoes‚ earthquakes‚ typhoons‚ tsunamis and floods. The Philippines in very vulnerable to hazards as poverty and human development is so variable; in outlying areas and small islands. Increasing urbanisation can add to earthquake and typhoon vulnerability. Physical factors have also affected the vulnerability of The Philippines‚ such as slopes‚ increase land degradation and deforestation have increased susceptibility to secondary
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Australia‚ Northern Territory and South Australia is less populated than Queensland and New South Wales‚ and has only other 100 people living other there. There is more people living in the east of the country because there is a good climate‚ no extreme cyclones or droughts‚ there is most of the cities found in the east of the country therefore‚ there is better job opportunities‚ and for other
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Deforestation Plants give us oxygen which is the most important thing for our survival. They undergo a process of photosynthesis in which they give out oxygen and take carbon dioxide. Plants consume the air‚ sunlight and the carbon dioxide we breathe out to make food and oxygen. So if trees are cut‚ plants will not produce oxygen and the concentration of carbon dioxide will increase. Increase of carbon dioxide in the air is harmful for human beings and also disturbs the water cycle and hence the
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The 19th century guano/nitrates trade illustrates the emergence of a global metabolic rift‚ as guano and nitrates were relocated from Peru and Chile to enrich the soils of Britain and other imperial countries. This global metabolic rift created the decline of soil fertility in Britain and importation of Chinese “Cooley” labor to Peru‚ (Foster 359-361)‚ through a law that was coercing‚ deceiving and even kidnapping Chinese for the slave trade. They were in such inhumane labor conditions that most
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The Indian Monsoon The monsoon is a yearly cycle‚ where the direction of the wind changes‚ bringing storms and rainfall to the land‚ and when the wind changes again it brings drought to the land. This creates a wet and a dry season in some areas‚ such as the Indian region. However‚ this is not a set of wet and dry seasons‚ the monsoon varies from year to year and even from day to day. The word “monsoon” is believed to have originated from the Arabic word mausem‚ which itself means “season” (Fein
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Module 1 Activity 1.1: 1. Develop for yourself a working definition of disasters from a community perspective. According to the Disaster Management Act 2003‚ A disaster is a serious disruption in a community‚ caused by the impact of an event that requires a significant coordinated response by the State and other entities to help the community recover from the disruption. Serious disruption means— (a) loss of human life‚ or illness or injury to humans; or (b) widespread or severe property
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------------------------------------------------- Case Introduction and Challenges ------------------------------------------------- Chongqing‚ a city in central southwestern China‚ had a heritage in heavy manufacturing‚ as it was one of the centers of the Chinese defense industry‚ especially for vehicles. In 1980s‚ when the Cold War slowed‚ the central government wanted to reduce defense expenditure and asked some of the state owned enterprises (SOEs) to begin manufacturing civilian products
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by floods. In 2013‚ a flood wasted over parts of Queensland and New South Wales. Almost 7‚500 residents of Bundaberg and patients at the Bundaberg Hospital had to evacuate because of widespread flooding and the surrounding suburbs (2013 Tropical Cyclone Oswald‚ n.d). Schools were closed; hospitals were filled with sick people; and water and power supplies were interrupted. It usually takes years for affected community to go back to normal from floods. Previously‚ people saw that floods were the
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The Wizard Of Oz: The Bimetallic Standard & Populism Representations At first look‚ The Wizard Of Oz just seems to be a story about a normal Kansas girl who simply just wants to get back to her home‚ and is able to do so with the help of some new friends she meets along her journey. However‚ there seems to more to the story than just that. The author L. Frank Baum wrote the story in the late 1890s and it was published in 1900. This was right around the same time there was a huge fuss over the
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