A disaster is a natural or man-made (or 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
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resources making vulnerable to this hazard. Forms of Biological Hazards: 1. Independent Biological Hazard • Contributes to‚ develop into & exacerbate vulnerability leading to disaster (e.g. HIV-AIDs) 2. Dependent BH e.g. war » famine » malnutrition » diseases » less resistance to diseases » deaths 3. Trigger of disaster e.g. pest infestation-famine (Irish famine 1845-1848) Important factors of vulnerability on biological hazards: 1. Micro-environment; (risk at refugee camps e.g. poor water
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“Disaster‚ Disaster” Oh Disaster‚ Disaster how cruel you are Oh Disaster‚ Disaster how rude you are You shake the ground beneath my feet You attack me‚ and you wake me up from my sleep I have so little time to get away from you I never though you would become my foe Oh Disaster‚ Disaster what have I done Oh Disaster‚ Disaster why did you have to come? Because of you I have nothing left Except for bricks and rocks and the smell of dust You made me cry‚ you make me scream You make me panic and entangled
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT CYCLE The disaster cycle or the disaster life cycle consists of the steps that emergency managers take in planning for and responding to disasters. Each step in the disaster cycle correlates to part of the ongoing cycle that is emergency management. This disaster cycle is used throughout the emergency management community‚ from the local to the national and international levels. Preparedness The first step of the disaster cycle is usually considered to be preparedness although
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LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER Research on BBM as a Means of Communication Tool Name : Achmad Reiza Arfani Matric ID : 122909510 Course : BEPC-1 Nowadays‚ many people uses Blackberry and its application Blackberry Messenger. According to the press release‚ from RIM (Research In Motion)‚ the manufacturer of Blackberry‚ during DEVCON 2010‚ RIM at that point had 28 million users on BBM. We can assume that the number have already gotten higher now. What is Blackberry Messenger (BBM)? In general
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ARMED FORCES DURING DISASTER ON A LARGE SCALE: DISASTER: It is a Catastrophe‚ mishap‚ calamity or grave occurrence in any area. It arises from natural or man-made causes‚ or by accident or negligence. It results in substantial loss of life or human suffering or damage to and destruction of property or damage to or degradation of environment. Disaster is of such a nature or magnitude as to be beyond the coping capacity of the community of the affected area. TYPES OF DISASTER: Two types
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Essay on The Natural Disaster (Flood In Pakistan) There are many questions emerging from the recent floods in Pakistan‚ ranging from attempts to understand the atmospheric phenomena behind the downpours to the search for where ultimate responsibility lies for the ensuing human calamity. This short essay investigates some of those questions. A pinch of geography is necessary to explain why Pakistan received such an extraordinary amount of rain during this rainy season. The Indian monsoon can
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SIGNATURE: ……………………………… TYPES OR MEANS OF COMMUNICATION USED BY ORGANIZATIONS IN UGANDA Communication is the process by which we exchange information between individuals or groups of people. It is a process where we try as clearly and accurately as we can‚ to convey our thoughts‚ intentions and objectives. Means of communication on the other hand refer to the agents‚ instruments‚ methods or resources used to impart or interchange thoughts‚ opinions or information. Most well established organizations
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MOST POPULAR MEANS OF COMMUNICATION It’s a pity but modern society is not so close to traditional kinds of communication as It must be. Not everyone will agree on proposal to go for a walk or go to the cinema. People prefer watching television to spending time in open air. And it happens in best ways. More frequently we are busy with surfing the Internet not noticing that slowly‚ but certainly we waste our life. That’s why I can easily maintain the most popular way of communication in modern world
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND PRACTICE‚ DISASTER PREPEAREDNESS & DISESTER MITIGATION IN THE HEALTH SECTOR Introduction The attacks of September 11th 2001‚ followed shortly by the anthrax dissemination incident in Florida‚ the National Capital Region‚ and the New York metropolitan area (often referred to as Amerithrax)‚ confirmed that the world faces a true threat of intentional mass casualty incidents caused by terrorism. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)‚ a re-examination of the 1918 Spanish
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