Causes Of Flooding In South-Africa 4 4. The Effect Of Development On Flood Hazards in SA 5 5. The Effect Of The Economic Status Of People - Regarding Flood Hazards 6 6. Conclusion 7 7. Bibliography 8 1. Introduction Floods play a major role in our everyday lives‚ and how we react to the daily changing climate is of course our way of surviving our planetary conditions. Floods determine our building styles and play a very large role in the economy
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References: Abdul-Akeem‚ Sadeeq. 2012. A Look at Nigeria’s Bourgeoning Emergency Management System: Challenges‚ Opportunities‚ and Recommendations for Improvement. Abubakar‚ Auwal AIR WORLDWIDE. 2011. A Comparison of the Great Mississippi River Floods of 1993 and 2011: Implications for Crop Insurance and Reinsurance BID-CEPAL‚ 2000. A matter of development: how to reduce vulnerability in the face of natural disasters Department: Technical Studies and Conference Proceedings. www.iadb.org/ sds/env/publications
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WHO collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters - CRED Annual Disaster Statistical Review 2010 The numbers and trends Debby Guha-Sapir‚ Femke Vos‚ Regina Below with Sylvain Ponserre Annual Disaster Statistical Review 2010 The numbers and trends Debby Guha-Sapir Femke Vos Regina Below with Sylvain Ponserre (UNISDR) Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) Université catholique de Louvain – Brussels‚ Belgium Acknowledgements The data upon which this report
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TABLE OF CONTENTS. SECTION PAGE 1-Introduction......................................................................................................... 2-Literature Review................................................................................................. 3-Data Collection Methods..................................................................................... 4-Presentation of Findings
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natural hazard becomes a natural disaster when damage to people property or society is sufficient to cause a long recovery and rehabilitation process The four major hazards that affect are 1. drought 2. bush fires 3. tropical cyclones and storms 4. floods Cyclone Larry • AT LEAST 30 PEOPLE WERE INJURED; MOST INJURIES WERE MINOR. • ABOUT HALF THE BUILDINGS IN INNISFAIL AND 80 PER CENT IN BABINDA‚ TO THE NORTH‚ WERE DAMAGED. • THE BANANA INDUSTRY REPORTED LOSSES
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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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DISASTER MANAGEMENT’S PROJECT Handling Natural Disasters – Tsunami Made By – {name} What to do BEFORE a Tsunami * Find out if your home‚ school‚ workplace‚ or other frequently visited locations are in tsunami hazard prone areas. * Know the height of your street above sea level and the distance of your street from the coast or other high-risk waters. * Plan evacuation routes from your home‚ school‚ workplace or any other place you could be where tsunamis present a risk. *
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one at Payalu and the other at Dhankoti and are victims of caste discriminations. They are not allowed to enter the kitchens of upper castes or any temple of the villages. However they also earn their livelihood through farming but are mostly involved in drum beating or black smith works. Mr. Rohtela informed the team that the village of Jamak was located near the river bed pre 1978 floods which they now refer to as the old Jamak. The 1978 floods washed away the entire village of Jamak and since
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technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ catastrophic accidents‚ fires‚ orexplosions. It is a phenomenon that disasters can cause damage to life‚ property and destroy the economic‚ social and cultural life of people. In contemporary academia‚ disasters are seen as the consequence of
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from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods‚ volcanic eruptions‚ earthquakes‚ tsunamis‚ 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. List of natural calamities 1) Earthquakes 2) Volcanic eruptions 3) Hydrological disasters a. Floods b. Limbic eruptions c. Tsunami 4) Meteorological disasters
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