Natural Disasters With the tropical climate and unstable landforms‚ coupled with high population density‚ poverty‚ illiteracy and lack of adequate infrastructure‚ India is one of the most vulnerable developing countries to suffer very often from various Natural Disasters‚ viz. flood‚ cyclone‚ earthquake‚forest fire‚ drought‚ etc. Asia tops the list of casualties due to natural disasters. Space technology plays a crucial role in efficient mitigation of disasters. Communication satellite provides
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A disaster is a sudden‚ calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human‚ material‚ and economic or environmental losses that exceed the community’s or society’s ability to cope using its own resources. Though often caused by nature‚ disasters can have human origins. There can be two kinds of disasters Natural Disaster –naturally occurring physical phenomena caused either by onset events which can be geophysical (earthquakes‚ landslides‚ tsunamis
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Topic: Critical appraisal of Disaster management Act‚ 2005 Submitted by: Rible Thomas Kizhakkidam MswII ROLL no 573 The Indian subcontinent is among world’s most disaster prone area. It is exposed to natural catastrophes because of its vast territory‚ large population and unique geo-climatic conditions. In India‚ while 40 million hectares of landmass is prone to floods‚ 68 per cent of the total areas is vulnerable to periodical droughts. The Disaster Management Act passed in 2005 provides for
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Today‚ former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship will turn himself into police custody to immediately start a one year sentence for his involvement in the Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster. How does a CEO of a company end up in jail for what appeared as a tragic accident? On April 5th‚ 2010 in a West Virginia coal mine owned by Massey Energy Company and operated by Performance Coal Company an explosion would claim the lives of twenty-nine miners and shed light on the many workplace safety violations
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The April 1986 disaster at the Chernobyla nuclear power plant in Ukraine was the product of a flawed Soviet reactor design coupled with serious mistakes made by the plant operatorsb. It was a direct consequence of Cold War isolation and the resulting lack of any safety culture. The accident destroyed the Chernobyl 4 reactor‚ killing 30 operators and firemen within three months and several further deaths later. One person was killed immediately and a second died in hospital soon after as a result
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a wide range of natural disaster. The Philippines archipelago‚ located near the western edge of the Pacific Ocean‚ is in the direct path of seasonal typhoons and monsoon rains which bring floods‚ storms‚ storm surges‚ and their attendant landslides and other forms of devastation. The Philippines also sits on the "ring of fire" where the continental plates collide and thus experience periodic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The Philippine exposure to natural disasters may be characterized as frequent
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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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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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“DISASTERS CREATES OPPURTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT” DISASTER: Disaster can be defined as “The occurrence of a sudden or major misfortune which disrupts the basic fabric and normal functioning of a society‚ or community.” “An event or series of events which gives rise to casualties and/or damage or loss of property‚ infrastructure‚ essential services or means of livelihood on a scale which is beyond the normal capacity of the affected community’s ability to cope with out aid.” According to UNISDR
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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. The disaster management personnel are trained to assist in such happenings. Disasters can be categorized
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