NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT A Supplementary Textbook in Geography for Class XI on UNIT 11 : Natural Hazards and Disasters CENTRAL BOARD OF SECONDARY EDUCATION PREET VIHAR‚ DELHI - 110092 FIRST EDITION 2006 © CBSE‚ DELHI Price: Published By: The Secretary‚ Central Board of Secondary Education‚ 2‚ Community Centre‚ Preet Vihar‚ Delhi-110092 Design‚ Layout and Illustration By: Chandu Press‚ D-97‚ Shakarpur‚ Delhi-110092 Printed By: Chandu Press‚ D-97‚ Shakarpur‚ Delhi-110092
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…………………………………………………………………………..…………….8 Natural disasters introduction A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g.‚ flood‚ tornado‚ hurricane‚ volcanic eruption‚ earthquake‚ heatwave‚ or landslide). It leads to financial‚ environmental or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the vulnerability of the affected population to resist the hazard‚ also called their resilience. This understanding is concentrated in the formulation: "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability." A natural
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Disasters to Success Can success be disastrous? Everyone has a dream of having a million dollar house‚ Lamborghini‚ and an attractive spouse. To most people‚ that is how they define success; but will that really make them happy? Success can be very disastrous and can ruin lives. An old saying that every child has heard says “be careful what you wish for.” Every child has wished to be rich and successful but haven’t fully thought about the disasters to success. The dream of success can often
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NATURAL DISASTERS A natural disaster is a major adverse event‚ which can cause loss of life or property damage‚ and typically leaves some economic damage. There are many types of natural disasters: avalanches‚ earthquakes‚ volcanic eruptions‚ floods‚ tsunamis‚ blizzards‚ droughts‚ hailstorms‚ tornadoes‚ wildfires. If an adverse event occurs in an area without vulnerable population‚ it will not have such disastrous consequences‚ as if it occurs in area of vulnerable population as in San Francisco
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Environmental disaster is defined as a disaster to the natural environment due to human activity. Obviously‚ it is not an act of God. Human have forgotten that mother earth is a gift from God‚ to be respected and taken care of. Therefore‚ environment disasters issues are getting serious all over the world within these few years. Global warming is the result of human activities. Excessive amounts of greenhouse gases had been released to the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases such as carbon monoxide that
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ENGINEERING DISASTERS We can also call Engineering as in invisible science. No one can actually see how it works but it actually exists like an air. Example: Plain flies‚ building stands and many more. We don’t think how a building can stand weight without collapsing. Similar to apple’s company’s Moto ‘it just works. Here the main problems are not the designs but the material the use up building that design. The concept of total cost minimization is the roots of such accidents that just ruins lives
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caused by two days of constant rain along with the coal slag being on top of an underground spring. “The tragedy was caused by two days of continual heavy rain loosening the coal slag‚ which was situated on top of an underground spring” (The Aberfan Disaster). This obviously does not make for a good combination. The rain water saturated the soil‚ weakening its integrity. The underground spring loosened the soil underneath‚ cutting out the soil creating air pockets. This helped in weakening the structure
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The Government’s Role in the Centralia Disaster Jason Smith Strayer University PAD500 Modern Public Administration 2012 The Government’s Role in the Centralia Disaster This paper will explore logistical alternatives to those chosen by Mine Inspector Driscoll O. Scanlan as described in “The Blast in Centralia No.5: A Mine Disaster No one Stopped” by John Bartlow Martin (Denhardt‚ R. B.‚ & Denhardt‚ J. V. 2010 p31-44). We will seek to
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Bangladeshi disaster: What price those £10 chinos now? Head Line: Primark‚ Bonmarché and Western consumers must take a share of the responsibility for the deaths in the Bangladeshi clothing factory. By: David Blair Published By: The Telegraph Date: 25 Apr 2013 Summary: This article is about the distressing incident which took place in Bangladesh where 228 people died in the fall down of eight storey’s Rana Plaza. Rana Plaza had shops‚ offices and factories crowded with many people
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The 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
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