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    vulnerable to floods‚ famine‚ drought‚ earthquake‚ cyclones‚ and river erosions. Due to the effects of these disasters‚ the country is now permanently in distress. These disasters have become regular phenomena and have been causing suffering to millions of residents for many decades. Natural Disasters are occurring every year in our country. And so found to suffering in it. In Bangladesh Natural Disasters can be of many different kinds‚ but We suffer most‚ Some of this like floods‚ cyclones‚ earthquake

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    alter the natural vegetation. Drought has lowered water levels in upstream reservoirs‚ eliminating the occasional floods the delta needs to maintain and extend the partial recovery of the 1980s and 1990s. The drought has left the Southwest grasping for water. South of Yuma‚ where the river forms a 23-mile boundary between the United States and Mexico‚ the International Boundary and Water Commission is considering proposals to straighten the channel and plan for a flood flow of 140‚000 cub feet per

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    different parts of the globe‚ different types of natural disasters like floodsdroughts‚ earthquakes‚ cyclones‚ landslides‚ and volcanoes etc may strike according to the vulnerability of the area. 2. Pakistan‚ due to its diverse range of terrain‚ is susceptible to wide ranging hazards from droughts to floods and earthquakes to cyclones. Pakistan suffered a major drought from 1995-2000. Pakistan almost every year suffers from floods but the destructions faced in 2010 have changed parameters of our thinking

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    a disaster. They could be either manmade or naturally occurring in our environment and hazards are something that has potential to lead to a disaster. . Natural hazards are things like earthquakes‚ volcanic eruptions‚ landslides‚ tsunamis‚ floods and drought - any physical event that happens naturally. They are caused by changes in the atmosphere‚ the earth’s upper and under surface or the sea or other body of water. They can happen quickly‚ called a rapid onset hazard‚ or build up gradually‚ called

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    processes of‚ or effecting‚ the Earth; examples include floods‚ severe weather‚ volcanic eruptions‚ earthquakes‚ and other geologic processes. A natural calamity can cause loss of life or property damage‚ and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake‚ the severity of which depends on the affected population’s resilience‚ or ability to recover. A natural calamity are the side effects or the after effects of natural issues or hazards like flood‚ volcanic erosion‚ land slide or earthquake which will

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    traditional rice-bowls‚ said food grain production in the state was expected to plummet by more than 900‚000 tons due to the floods.” Another reason

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    because it will begin to take up all of the food and water supplies from crops and gardens. Global warming is an extreme problem mainly because the cause of floods and droughts. Half the worlds deaths are cause by natural disasters such as flooding and droughts. If we have floods then they could drowned the crops and also kill many people. If droughts continue‚ more then crops could dry out and would have to re-plant multiple times. This could be a vast problem for all humans because if food supplies

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    Rev. sci. tech. Off. int. Epiz.‚ 2003‚ 22 (3)‚ 915-930 Disaster management in India: the case of livestock and poultry A. Sen (1) & M. Chander (2) (1) Fellow Programme in Management Scholar‚ Indian Institute of Management‚ Ahmedabad - 380015‚ Gujurat‚ India (2) Senior Scientist‚ Division of Extension Education‚ Indian Veterinary Research Institute‚ Izatnagar – 243 122‚ Uttar Pradesh‚ India Submitted for publication: 7 July 2002 Accepted for publication: 25 April 2003 Summary Developing countries

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    storage capacity would be up to 1‚000 cubic square meters. Importantly‚ budget is going to be utilized in constructing the detention basins is approximately 4‚000 million baht‚ which is 70 percent lower than the dams project. Detention basin is a flood plain or water storage area including public pound‚ man-made pound‚ and lake. The detention basin was introduced to Thai society by H.M. Bhumibol Adulyadej to store water and relief flooding. Sometimes‚ the public pound has been shallow‚ thus the

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    Sidhartha‚ Mukhopadhayay‚ B. and Bhatnagar A. K‚ 2008‚ Atlas of Hourly Mixing Height and Assimilative Capacity of Air in India’‚ IMD Met Monograph N0 1/2008 on Environment Meteorology. Gore‚ P.G.‚ Prashad Thakur‚ and Hatwar‚ H.R.‚ 2010‚ Mapping of Drought areas over India‚ 2010‚ NCC Report 12. Goswami‚ B.N.‚ Venugopal‚ V.‚ Sengupta‚ D.‚ Madhusoodanan‚ M.S. and Xavier‚ P. K.‚ 2006‚ Increasing trend of Extreme Rain Events over India in a Warming Environment‚ Science‚ 314‚ 5804‚ 1 December‚ 1442-1445

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