DISASTER MANAGEMENT BECOMING A DISASTER MANAGER TOPICS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. ACCOUNT ON A DISASTER HAZARD DISASTER TYPES OF DISASTERS HAZARD TO A DISASTER DISASTER MANAGEMENT PHASES OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT ON A DISASTER THE EARTHQUAKE OF 25 JANUARY 2001 IN GUJARAT‚ INDIA George Pararas-Carayannis Introduction On 25 January 2001‚ a major earthquake occurred in Gujarat‚ a prosperous industrial and agricultural state on India’s west coast‚ close to the border with Pakistan. The quake
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Disaster management (or emergency management) is the effort of communities or businesses to plan for and coordinate all personal and materials required to either mitigate the effects of‚ or recover from‚ natural or man-made disasters‚ or acts of terrorism. natural disasters (such as earthquakes‚ hurricanes‚ etc.)‚ Pre-incident training and testing Communicating and assessing incidents Emergency management consists of five phases: prevention‚ : It focuses on preventing the human hazard‚ primarily
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DISASTER PREPAREDNESS DURING TYPHOONS Typhoon is a word composed only of seven letters and two syllables yet it attracts attention when heard from news or read from a newspaper article. It creates worries and uneasiness to the receiver’s mind. There are a number of definitions of what typhoon is. According to the website Merriam-Webster.com (2013)‚” Typhoon is a hurricane occurring especially in the region of the Philippines or China Sea.” Typhoon is the term for a natural phenomenon that can
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apply disaster management program into Cambodia? Disaster management is a process or strategy that is implemented before‚ during or after any type of catastrophic event takes place. Nowadays‚ Cambodia does not have a law on disaster management yet‚ which is an essentially to cope with natural disaster. To help deal with potential disasters in the future‚ I think that the National Committee for Disaster Management and together with some other relevant institutions should be set up the disaster management
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Katniss Everdeen is brave. Being brave means you are not afraid of your weaknesses. You will fight it no matter what. When you are brave‚ you are showing courage. You are fearless and confident. Being timid is not being brave. To be brave‚ you aren’t scared of confronting thongs most people are scared of. I chose the word brave for Katniss because she is really brave. In the book‚ The Hunger Games‚ her sister‚ Primrose Everdeen‚ was going to be part of The Hunger Games because her name was drawn
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Disaster Relief I would like to inform people of the great problems we face in the world today in disaster relief. Today we face many disasters all over the world. Some may be man-made and some natural. We have faced many disasters in this world from nation to nation and it’s only getting worse as time goes by. For some reason the government thinks that this is not a big problem and have tried to push it off in many occasions. I know from experience that we are not prepared for these disasters
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John Rabe died without the intention of becoming a hero. However‚ even without the goal of being a hero‚ many people remember him as one due to his actions of bravery during the Nanjing massacre. He helped defend China’s land and those who fought for and live in china. What happened in Nanking was a massacre due to the unsettling amounts of Chinese killed. John Rabe should be remembered as a hero because of his major contributions during the fights. From 1937 through 1938‚ China had
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Facts of a Registered Nurse 1. Would you like to know the facts to being a Registered Nurse.. The reason I am interested in pursuing this occupation is well one because my Step- Mom and others in my family are or have been a Registered Nurse. They say it can be tough at times with the type of patients they had and the hours they worked. Two is because I want to be able to help people who need my help. I would like to expand my horizons be able to meet new people‚ maybe go to different places
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Can you imagine being deaf and blind? Learning how to talk and active feminist inspired Peter Drier to write this article "The Radical Dissent of Hellen Keller." Would anyone like to learn how to talk and interact with other people while being deaf and blind? Hellen Keller was one of the wonderful people who can talk while being deaf and blind. I don’t think anyone can be more inspiring than Hellen. Everyone is inspired by Hellen Keller. Hellen is a awesome person‚ she accomplished a lot of things
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Disaster: British Petroleum Oil Spill Date: April 20‚ 2010 Location: Gulf of Mexico Personal Experiences: A little over a year after the BP oilrig sprung a leak‚ my family and I went to Panama City in Florida. As far as we could see‚ we couldn’t notice any differences in the Gulf of Mexico. The water was still crystal clear even though thousands of barrels of oil leaked into the ocean each day for months. I was completely aware of how the spill dramatically affected the lives‚ jobs‚ and
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