2] A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g.‚ flood‚ tornado‚ hurricane‚ volcanic eruption‚ earthquake‚ 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.[1] This understanding is concentrated in the formulation: "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability."[2] Environmental disasters are occurring with alarming regularity. But the
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in need; and restoring critical public services”. In many cases‚ hazard monitoring systems ensure authorities are promptly alerted to disaster onset either by means of systematic forecasts (e.g.‚ hurricanes) or prompt detection (e.g.‚ flash floods detected by stream gages)‚ so there is considerable forewarning and consequently a long period of time to activate the emergency response organization. In other cases‚ such as earthquakes‚ pre-impact prediction is usually not available‚ but prompt assessment
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Urban child protection: A study on project area of Plan (Dhalpur) Introduction: Plan has been working in Bangladesh since 18 years. Globally it has 8 thematic areas. The areas are education‚ disaster risk management‚ child participation‚ child protection‚ economic security‚ sexual and reproductive health‚ water and sanitation. According to plan every child has equal rights on education‚ even in the time of disaster. Plan also emphasizes on child participation‚ child protection. Plan is now working
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People led District Disaster Management Soon after the Orissa Cyclone and thereafter the Gujarat earthquake the Government of India prioritized a national policy on disaster management and advocated a change of direction from a post disaster reactive approach to a proactive stance before the occurrence of disasters‚ provided a new legal framework and greater harmonization of disaster management efforts. The policy set forth principles (including significant community role and active civil society
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interventions are required to save and preserve human lives and or the environment. Disasters are frequently categorized according to their perceived causes and speed of impact. Yet in other sources like researchgate.com‚ it’s a natural or man-made hazard that causes significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ personal injury and economic disruption of great magnitude or drastic change to the environment. All these definitions seem to agree however that disasters can cause serious disruption
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Worst Cases Book Review Worst Cases: Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination. Lee Clarke. Chicago: Worst Cases is an analytical book written in a language that can be read by the average person and not so technical that it can’t be understood. This book gives certain “worst case scenerios” and explains how society may react to these scenarios if they were to happen. Not only does Worst Cases give scenarios of worst cases events‚ but it also gives real life disasters and how society
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material‚ or environmental losses which exceed the ability of the affected society to cope using its own resources." A disaster is the product of a hazard such as earthquake or flood with a vulnerable situation which might include communities‚ cities or villages. Without vulnerability or hazard there is no disaster. A disaster occurs when hazards and vulnerability meet. Disaster Management "Disaster Management" is a continuous and integrated process of planning‚ organizing‚ coordinating
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water‚ such as an earthquake‚ volcanic eruption‚ landslide or meteorite impact. However‚ the most common cause is an undersea earthquake. An earthquake which is too small to create a tsunami by itself may trigger an undersea landslide quite capable of generating a tsunami. Tsunamis can be generated when the sea floor abruptly deforms and vertically displaces the overlying water. Such large vertical movements of the earth’s crust can occur at plate boundaries. Subduction earthquakes are particularly
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harmful to both man and other organisms. Biological hazards are hazards caused by micro-organisms (fungi‚ virus‚ pollens‚ insects‚ bacteria etc) to animals‚ crops and to man. Biological hazards are often linked with other hazards like droughts‚ floods‚ volcanoes‚ earthquakes etc. Biological hazards affect peoples Livelihood and also their resources making vulnerable to this hazard. Forms of Biological Hazards: 1. Independent Biological Hazard • Contributes to‚ develop into & exacerbate vulnerability
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CHAPTER 7 HAZARD MITIGATION This chapter will explain what hazard mitigation is‚ and how it fits in with the other phases of emergency management. Next‚ the chapter will describe the most widely used mitigation strategies and the ways they are applied to the most common types of environmental hazards. The following section will describe the legal basis for hazard mitigation as it stands in the United States today. Problems in the adoption and implementation of mitigation policies will be described
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