chain management thus faces a pressing need to maintain the expected yields of the system in risk situations. To achieve that‚ supply chain management need to both identify potential risks and evaluate their impacts‚ and at the same time design risk mitigation policies to locate and relocate resources to deal with risk events. Many industrial cases have shown different outcomes after risk events due to diverse actions (or lack of action) taken in facing supply chain disturbances and disruptions. One
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GOI-UNDP DISASTER RISK REDUCTION PROJECT Empowered lives Resilient nations Quarterly Report For the Quarter Ending 30th September‚2011 Implemented by Orissa State Disaster Management Authority Bhubaneswar QUARTERLY REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF GOI-UNDP DISASTER RISK REDUCTION (DRR) PROJECT FOR THE QUARTER ENDING ON 30.09.11 MAIN RESULT AREA I: INSITUTIONAL STRENTHENING 1. Formation and meetings of the SDMA and DDMAs‚ SSC‚ Inter-agency groups and expert/thematic groups a. State Disaster Management
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Kevin Bieschke Dr. Kim English 102 11/30/2012 Homeland At the beginning of the twenty-first century everything changed for the United States of America. Hundreds of people were forced to jump to their deaths. Four airplanes‚ used as suicidal attack vessels‚ quaked the earth and the Pentagon as they hit their targets. Thousands of people died as the towers fell. It all happened Tuesday morning‚ September 11‚ 2001. Al-Qaeda‚ an Islamist militant group‚ was responsible for this brutal terrorist
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Natural Disaster and Mental Health: A Reflection Paper on Analyzing the Development and Environment (ADE) By Selahuddin Yu Hashim MDM 2013 When mother earth rages escaping from it is an almost impossible mission to achieve. Even nations with the most sophisticated technology may find it difficult to counter the destructive effect of natural disaster. And even if one is able to lessen its impact‚ it still results in devastation of the land affecting many people. The experience in Mt. Pinatubo
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International Day for Disaster Reduction started in 1989 with the approval by the United Nations General Assembly. The UN General Assembly sees the IDDR as a way to promote a global culture of disaster reduction‚ including disaster prevention‚ mitigation and preparedness. Originally celebrated as per resolution 44/236‚ 22 December 1989‚ the UN General Assembly decided to designate 10/13 as the date to celebrate the IDDR (resolution 64/200‚ 21 December 2009). International Day for Disaster Reduction
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___________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ 23-24 June‚ 2013 scientists‚ policy makers and NGO’s to exchange their concerns The Earth’s surface has warmed since the Industrial Revolution. The global climatic data shows that average surface temperatures increased over the past century by about 0.4 ºC to 0.8 ºC. Recent studies show that the average surface temperature of the earth is likely to increase by 1.1°C to 6.4 °C by the
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for the early detection of this storm far in advance of it making landfall on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States giving plenty of time for emergency preparation plans to take place. However‚ poor land use management and the lack of former mitigation practices‚ that cannot soon be undone‚ have placed many people and significant amounts of property and other structures in harm ’s way increasing not only human vulnerability‚ but that of the environment as well. Another caveat to this unique storm
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Moral recovery >the study provides an idea in qualifying the important qualities of the Filipino individuals’s it includes the different dimensions of the development in community and national levels. The morality of human acts. Is also an important consideration in choosing widely the proper values to be promoted for the ultimate purpose of human existence . General Objectives >to identify the significance of the moral developments proper for individuals in particular society‚ especially in our
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‘Structure‚ agency and environment: Toward an integrated perspective on vulnerability.’ Global Environmental Change‚ vol. 39‚ p. 99-111. Pararas-Carayannis‚ G 2003‚ ‘Climate Change‚ Natural and Man-Made Disasters – Assessment of Risks‚ Preparedness and Mitigation’‚ in Disaster Pages‚ accessed 24 May 2010‚ from < http://drgeorgepc.com/ClimateChange.html> Pelling‚ M 2001‚ ‘Natural Disasters?’ In Castree‚ N & Braun‚ B (Eds) Social Nature: Theory‚ Practice and Politics. Blackwell‚ Massachusetts‚ p. 170-188
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INTRODUCTION Nigeria‚ like the rest of the world‚ is exposed to a wide range of natural or human induced disasters. While some of these disasters are rapid‚ others are slow-onset‚ resulting in catastrophic situations leading to loss of lives and property‚ degradation of environment. These disasters occur in form of drought‚ desertification‚ flooding‚ epidemics‚ coastal erosion‚ dam failure‚ building collapse‚ oil spillage‚ maritime collision or accident‚ bomb explosion‚ communal clash‚ fire‚ air
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