1. Disaster Medical Assistance Teams (DMAT) a. Medical teams assembled to assess‚ triage‚ and provide medical supportive care for patients with acute primary care needs while updating the patient’s electronic health record into the system to ensure medical records will be retrieved at the final destination of the patient. Their duties are to stabilize life during emergency events for up to 72 hours without external assistance and determine the appropriate destination for patients. The teams consist
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ABSTRACT The main objective of this essay was to evaluate the impact of dams on the economic‚ social and environmental contexts. The idea was to analyse the dam’s major impact on each of these aspects. In the economic background‚ the benefits that hydroelectric dams provide were discussed in addition to the dam’s economic role in agriculture and food supply. Next‚ social impacts of dams were assessed which were mostly negative that dealt with population displacement and cultural sites destruction
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DISADVANATGES: 1. Dams are extremely expensive to build and must be built to a very high standard. 2. The high cost of dam construction means that they must operate for many decades to become profitable. 3. The flooding of large areas of land means that the natural environment is destroyed. 4. People living in villages and towns that are in the valley to be flooded‚ must move out. This means that they lose their farms and businesses. In some countries‚ people are forcibly removed so that
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Nile with both positive and negative consequences. This case study shows how human actions modify the physical environment. Here we see the contrast between ancient ways of life and modern technology in a contest for domain over the resources of Egypt. This drives our second objective: to understand the role of technology in changing the physical environment‚ and the environmental consequences of such actions. Following the case study‚ we will observe seventh-grade teacher Cynthia Ryan use Egypt
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The Hoover Dam Hoover Dam‚ also known as Boulder Dam‚ is a concrete dam built in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River. It was built on the border between the states of Arizona and Nevada and it also crosses the border between two time zones‚ the Pacific Time Zone and the Mountain Time Zone. When it was completed in 1935‚ it was the world ’s largest electric power producing facility and the world ’s largest concrete structure. The dam is located about 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas. It is named
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24 October 2011 Dam the Politics... Save the Salmon There are some things in this world that mean more to us than we can explain. We as human beings have an existential connection to all of mother earth’s creatures. We are approaching a dark time in the Klamath River‚ soon there will be no natural born salmon spawning up what was once one of the rivers that spawned the most salmon in the Pacific Northwest. The salmon that at one time flourished in the Klamath‚ are not able to reach their natural
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Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON) INTERNATIONAL EXPERT GROUP MEETING ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT KHABAROVSK‚ RUSSIAN FEDERATION AUGUST 27.-29‚ 2007 Case Study on the Impacts of Mining and Dams on the Environment and Indigenous Peoples in Benguet‚ Cordillera‚ Philippines Paper by CORDILLERA PEOPLES ALLIANCE I. Background Land and People of Benguet The Cordillera region in Northern Luzon
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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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On the morning of February 2‚ 2002‚ 7 year old Danielle Van Dam was found missing in her bedroom in the San Diego suburb of Sabre Springs‚ California. Later her parents‚ Brenda and Damon Van Dam called the police at 9:39 AM. Police soon discover that the neighbor‚ David Alan Westerfield was not in his home the day of Danielle’s disappearance. On February 4‚ Westerfield was then put under 24 hour surveillance after police became suspicious of him cleaning his RV. He made statements to the police that
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A grand scheme that the Brazilian Government used was to build a dam in 1984. It was the fourth largest dam in the world and it cost 5 billion dollars. The Brazilian government plans to build more dams in the amazon to harness the power of various rivers with money borrowed from other countries. The idea of dams such as these is to generate cheap electricity for Brazilian industrustys. The water held back by the dams has flooded a huge area of forest. The forest wasn’t cleared‚ (though it should
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