In recent years‚ due to the constant change of climate‚ floods‚ droughts‚ landslides‚ and storms have frequented our earth‚ the only human habitat. Therefore‚ climate change has become one of the most important issues in many urban areas of many countries and it is a serious impact on them. There is half of the world ’s population in urban areas and the proportion will increase rapidly in future years. Climate change is a mean state of the climate or in its variability‚ continue for a long period
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------------------------------------------------- Natural disaster A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods‚ tsunami‚ volcanic‚ earthquakes‚ tornadoes and other geologic processes. A natural disaster 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. The causes of natural disasters
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Country” is a deeply emotional poem with feelings of great pride in the reader. Mackellar speaks of rural Australia‚ where natural disasters can charge lives over night. She speaks of the fickle (changeable) nature of the weather and contrasts droughts‚ floods and fires. Feelings of wonder are evoked in the reader when she refers to the ability of the land to recover and rejuvenate (restore). Perhaps the greatest emotion is of wander at the sheer beauty of the land. She uses words such as core of my
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3 THIRD REPORT SECOND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS COMMISSION CRISIS MANAGEMENT CRISIS MANAGEMENT From Despair to Hope From Despair to Hope Second Administrative Reforms Commission Government of India 2nd Floor‚ Vigyan Bhawan Annexe‚ Maulana Azad Road‚ New Delhi 110 011 e-mail : arcommission@nic.in website : http://arc.gov.in SEPTEMBER 2006 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA SECOND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS COMMISSION THIRD REPORT CRISIS MANAGEMENT FROM DESPAIR TO HOPE SEPTEMBER 2006
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Introduction A. Attention Getter: Think of a world where more hurricanes and tropical storms causing massive destruction in different areas around the world and more animal species losing their habitats and becoming extinct just due to B. Relevance: The human activity of using too much of fossil fuel from mobile vehicles to the electric energy in outlets is affecting our planet C. Propositional Statement: Global Warming is still an ongoing problem‚ because it’s degrading of the world. I propose
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in some 100 physical and 450 biological processes. In the Russian Arctic‚ higher temperatures are melting the permafrost‚ causing the foundations of five story apartment buildings to slump. Worldwide‚ the rain‚ when it falls‚ is often more intense. Floods and storms are more severe and heat waves are becoming more extreme. Rivers freeze later in the winter and melt earlier. Trees flower earlier in spring‚ insects emerge faster and birds lay eggs sooner. Glaciers are melting. The global mean sea level
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their habitats. Concentrations of greenhouse gases are now higher than at any ever in the past 800‚000 years with an average surface temperature rise of 0.7°C over the past 100 years. Climate change causes weather patterns to change resulting in long droughts severe storms‚ bushfires and rising sea levels. Climate change occurs around the world due to the greenhouse gases trapping the heat in our earth. E.g. global warming and climate change is occurring in north and South Pole due to a rise in the earth’s
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Besides‚ a lot of carbon dioxide may pollute environment seriously‚ harming the global health. Furthermore‚ destruction of the world’s forest will make advantage for disaster as flood‚ drought‚ tidal waves and so forth. People all know that trees protect them from flood by keeping a large amount of water‚ or drought by maintaining the humidity of the world. However‚ it seems like our efficient shield is broken by ourselves. According to many scientists‚ in this century‚ people have to suffer a
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winters. The rainfall is seasonal in Australia.<br><br>In the wet season‚ heavy downpours and violent storms cause floods. But the droughts that plague the nation are far more serious than any flood. Just about every section of Australia has a drought in the dry season. These droughts cause severe water shortages and cause the need for dramatic conservation laws as well as droughts there is also brush fires.<br><br>Rivers in Australia are one of its most vital resources. They supply the
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types of disasters like flood‚ cyclonic storms‚ tidal surges‚ droughts‚ tornadoes‚ riverbank erosion‚ earthquake‚ etc. occur frequently in Bangladesh. Identifying the vulnerable areas with reference to natural hazards causing damage to the housing stock and the related infrastructure are most important for infrastructures development. In this study‚ four natural hazards which are the most common for damaging in Bangladesh‚ namely earthquake‚ cyclones‚ tornadoes and floods are considered to develop
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