A natural disaster is the happening of a dangerous hazardous event‚ which can cause damages for the societies (Petrucci‚ 2012). Floods are one of the most common natural disasters over the world and they have occasional devastating influences in developed as well as developing countries (Ahern‚ 2005). Recently the floods increasingly happen over the world in general and specially in Australia. For example‚ a sequence of floods in Queensland in early December 2010 did happen and led to a damage of
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Natural Disaster and the Retail Business Owner Natural Disaster and the Business Owner People make difficult decisions in business everyday. People that make these decisions have to stand by them. The situation in this assignment‚ speaking of hurricane Katrina‚ I have mixed feelings on the business owner Brian decision. From a person on the outside looking in perspective‚ I felt he was wrong for raising the prices of the hotel rooms. But in reality‚ I had to put myself in the shoes of
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MP A R Munich Personal RePEc Archive Natural hazards and disaster management in Pakistan Himayatullah Khan and Abuturab Khan 12. October 2008 Online at http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11052/ MPRA Paper No. 11052‚ posted 12. October 2008 23:59 UTC Natural hazards and disaster management in Pakistan Himayatullah Khan Professor‚ Department of Development Studies COMSATS Institute of Information Technology‚ Abbottabad and Institute of Development Studies NWFP Agricultural University‚ Peshawar
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With reference to various examples‚ discuss how ‘natural’ disasters are socially constructed. While natural disasters such as floods‚ drought and hurricanes are commonly thought to occur due to environmental forces such as weather‚ climate and tectonic movements; a deeper investigation into the ‘disaster’ displays other contributing forces. Human factors have a large‚ if not equal‚ contribution to the occurrance and outcome of such disasters (Pelling‚ 2001). As Pelling (2001) argues‚ there is both
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The Port Chicago Disaster On the 24 of July 1944‚ a memorandum was written from Captain W. S. Parsons‚ USN to Rear Admiral W. R. Purnell‚ USN. It was a report on the most destructive explosion on United States soil at that time. It was known as the Port Chicago Explosion. Captain Parsons worked in the Bureau of Ordnance as their Liaison Officer. So he was a prime candidate for the job. Rear Admiral Purnell was the head of the Military Policy Committee. This memorandum was not intended to
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Revision 6/11/2010 2010 DISASTER RECOVERY TEST REPORT AND GAP ANALYSIS The annual disaster recovery test was conducted 5/18‐5/20‚ 2010 at the IBM Schaumberg BCRS facility. This test sets a new watermark for CU*Answers in our disaster recovery and business continuity efforts as it represents the introduction of the new Muskegon‚ Michigan‚ data center into the test’s scope. Muskegon allows for an entirely new way of thinking about our disaster recovery and business continuity planning
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The Challenger Disaster By: Kathy Neuner & Jeremy Rider Executive Summary Many factors must be examined to find the underlying reason for the horrible disaster of the space shuttle Challenger. We will cover both the technical causes to the disaster and the communication breakdown with NASA. We will also look at the outside pressure that NASA was receiving from the media‚ congress and the military. Recommendations for NASA and anyone in the communication field will be given. These recommendations
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incident in West Germany‚ Greece and Belarus. These children were likely exposed to high dose of radiation which can damage genes and chromosomes. Thyroid cancer is very rare in children‚ this rapid increase was surely related to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. This occurred among people who were young children and adolescents at the time of the accident accordingly lived in the most contaminated areas of Belarus‚ the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Many adults exposed also suffered from thyroid cancer
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Life changed forever for the mainly Hakka community of Bukit Merah after Asian Rare Earth Sdn Bhd (ARE) began operations there in July 1982 to extract yttrium‚ a rare earth‚ from monazite. Within a few years‚ the villagers began noticing physical defects in their newborns‚ and at least eight leukaemia cases were confirmed. Medical examinations on children in the area found that nearly 40% of them suffered from lymph node diseases‚ turbinate congestion and recurrent rhinitis. Seven of the leukaemia
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The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster It is a silent enemy‚ it has no odor‚ no smell‚ no shape‚ yet it is one of man’s deadliest foes. Radiation is not something most people face on a daily basis‚ but for the town of Prypiat in the Ukraine it is a barren wasteland because of it. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster was the worst nuclear catastrophe to have ever occurred and‚ is a perfect example of what can happen when the blind and unmasked furry of atomic power is left unharnessed
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