CHAPTER 1 GURGAON DISTRICT PROFILE 1. Introduction The primary requirement for making disaster management plan is the reliable and upto date information about topography and socio- economic and climatic conditions of this region. This will help in identifying the areas vulnerable to environmental and manmade hazards. This chapter deals with the information on geographical aspects of Gurgaon district‚ its area‚ population distribution‚ climatic condition‚ physiographic divisions as well as geology
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Head: IMPROVING FLOOD EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS 1 Improving Flood Emergency Preparedness in League City Abstract This paper explores a vital need to the residents of League City in regards to flood emergency response. Based on online research from the City of League City Mitigation Plan‚ Galveston County Mitigation Plan‚ and The Council for Excellence in Government‚ a local flood preparedness campaign focusing on a coordinated community emergency preparedness educational
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Using quantitative and qualitative methodology to improve organizational effectiveness Abstract A non-profit organization should use both qualitative and quantitative performance measures‚ based on the organization’s mission goals and objectives‚ to show financial and programmatic accountability in a transparent environment. Qualitative and quantitative research methods can be used in marketing‚ financial planning‚ fundraising and program research and evaluation. This paper will define and
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Emergency Management Policies Since 1979‚ the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been the Federal Government’s lead agency in responding to and recovering from many of the Nation’s greatest moments of crisis. The Federal Emergency Management Agency coordinates the federal government’s role in preparing for‚ preventing‚ mitigating the effects of‚ responding to‚ and recovering from all domestic disasters‚ whether natural or man-made‚ including acts of terror. FEMA can trace its beginnings
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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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INTRODUCTION TO DISASTER 1.1 THE HISTORY OF DISASTERS IN INDIA Year 2005‚ say India should hang her head in shame. With the Bengal famine‚ Orissa Super Cyclone‚ Latur earthquake‚ Bhopal chemical disaster‚ Andhra cyclone‚ Gujarat earthquake‚ recurring floods‚ Mumbai 2008 bomb blasts and many other disasters there is no foyer in the world with space large enough to exhibit the collective pain on the face of India. India has ranked at the top or near top in almost all type of disasters with number
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Why L.A. used as setting for most disaster movies. Through decades of disaster films‚ Los Angeles has been targeted by aliens‚ toppled by temblors‚ sunken by tsunamis‚ leveled by lava‚ and a rogue tornado once took out the Hollywood sign. Even though in real life los angels is not such a disastrous it nonetheless faces constant destruction in movies‚ on television‚ and in books; in the collective imagination‚ the city burns and burns. Los angels is used as a setting for most disastrous
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* Access model * A model that explores how an individual or groups relative resilience to disasters is impacted by differences in access to the economic or political resources needed to secure a livelihood. * The strengths of the model are that it provides a broad view of vulnerability including root causes‚ it gives weight to natural hazards‚ and it provides a framework for looking at livelihoods and vulnerability. * The limitation of the model‚ is that it is a tool for explaining
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decimated by disasters and whose citizenry is regularly traumatised cannot be mobilised for any meaningful development. Most times‚ disasters occur with such regularity that huge human and material resources‚ which could have otherwise been used in national development‚ are lost annually to address disasters and for the rehabilitation of their victims. The magnitude of the pain or losses usually determines whether the occurrence is a minor accident or a disaster.1 A disaster is an event
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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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