What is disaster management? What are the various stages that it involves? The terminology may differ depending on where you are. In New Zealand‚ for example‚ you would be talking of the 4R’s‚ namely Readiness‚ Response‚ Recovery and Reduction. In other places‚ such as Indonesia‚ it could be as outlined in the graphic below: (Disaster management: click to enlarge) There are no standardized rules defining the different phases of the disaster management cycle. Different agencies use different cycles
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with others for an exceptional good time. All it would take is for one terrorist attack to change all that in the matter of minutes. The amount of mass confusion and mass injuries that could happen would be completely on the terrorist’s side but just how easy would this be to complete? However‚ there is a plan in place for incidents like this and many more and I will be taking a look at one in particular‚ a chemical attack at the Super Bowl. The scenario is Hydrogen Cyanide is released into
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County Manager has just gone to a federally sponsored program on getting volunteers to support the management and administrative side of disaster and recovery portions of emergency management. The Manager attended a seminar on a program called ‘Professional Volunteer Disaster Survey Team (PRO-V-DST)’ which had been developed in Texas in the mid-1990’s. She was quite enthusiastic about the program as it provides: A network of professional building inspectors‚ structural engineers‚ and architects
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Chernobyl Disaster Today‚ I am going to discuss about the biggest nuclear disaster that happened in the Worlds History. It’s called as Chernobyl disaster. This Disaster happened in Ukraine which was part of Soviet Union by then. It happened at the Chernobyl site between Pripyat and Chernobyl. The reason of this disaster is mainly human negligence and lack of knowledge. 25 April 1986... It was a beautiful Friday night with cool breeze blowing with a slight humidity. People were in their homes
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Nuclear Disasters and Accidents Introduction: One of the scariest things about nuclear power is when something goes wrong and an accident occurs. Radiation is released into the environment and people get hurt. Two of the most famous nuclear accidents occurred at the Three Mile Island reactor 2 in the United States and the Chernobyl reactor 4 in the former Soviet Union. In this text we will discuss these two disasters‚ along with correcting a few common misconceptions about nuclear accidents. The
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Bhopal disaster (commonly referred to as Bhopal gas tragedy) was a gas leak incident in India‚ considered one of the world’s worst industrial catastrophes.[1] It occurred on the night of December 2–3‚ 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal‚ Madhya Pradesh‚ India. A leak of methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals from the plant resulted in the exposure of hundreds of thousands of people. Estimates vary on the death toll. The official immediate death toll was 2‚259
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they are the dangerous ones. Terrorist attacks have shown us the most brutal violence society has ever seen and that’s what terrorism is; terrible and brutal violence with the only propose of terrified the people and add pressure to the government. Terrorist acts are strategically well planned‚ every terrorist act usually takes days and even months of preparation‚ terrorism is not unthinking violence they are very specific with what they want. In recent years terrorist acts have become more destructive
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AIG was a very successful company and made billions of dollars on new investment instruments‚ which were so unique that didn’t even fall under any of the securities regulations. For two decades AIG was riding this wave of huge revenues‚ which did not require much in return. The earth under AIG started crashing down‚ once mortgage bubble burst happened. Significant decline in the mortgage prices caused AIG to lose over 62 billion of dollars at the very early stage of the financial crisis. The only
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On 11 March 2011‚ disaster struck Fukushima‚ Japan when an immense tsunami hit and caused massive equipment failure to the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant‚ which led to vast radioactive leaks and consequences. The Fukushima disaster is one of the worst nuclear disasters to ever take place‚ comparable to Chernobyl. Some energy specialists believe that the detriments of nuclear energy far outweigh the benefits due to the consequences it has caused in history and what it will cause in the future because
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Introduction "Common natural disasters area a leading cause of data loss " says Bud Stoddard‚ AmeriVault President and CEO. Events such as the 8.3 earthquake that struck Hokkaido Japan September 25‚ 2003‚ and the firestorm in San Diego just weeks ago are just two examples of how natural disasters are devastating millions of unprepared businesses around the world. These are not the only events that must be considered‚ however. The terrorist attacks against the US on 9/11/01 and the biggest blackout
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