The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization working on issues regarding the conservation‚ research and restoration of the environment‚ formerly named the World Wildlife Fund‚ which remains its official name in Canada and the United States. It is the world’s largest independent conservation organization with over 5 million supporters worldwide‚ working in more than 100 countries‚ supporting around 1‚300 conservation and environmental projects. WWF is a foundation
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND PRACTICE‚ DISASTER PREPEAREDNESS & DISESTER MITIGATION IN THE HEALTH SECTOR Introduction The attacks of September 11th 2001‚ followed shortly by the anthrax dissemination incident in Florida‚ the National Capital Region‚ and the New York metropolitan area (often referred to as Amerithrax)‚ confirmed that the world faces a true threat of intentional mass casualty incidents caused by terrorism. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)‚ a re-examination of the 1918 Spanish
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environmental effects. For example‚ food production causes environmental damage from pesticides and fertilizers‚ soil salinization (salt content in soil)‚ waste produced by livestock‚ carbon emissions from food manufacturing and transportation‚ and overfishing (depleting the stock in a body of water). Health care facilities also have adverse environmental impacts. Hospitals use large quantities of electricity and fossil fuels and they also produce medical wastes. To prevent some diseases‚ it may be
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Click on thumbnail to buySome countries argue that whaling is necessary to maintain successful commercial fishing! They say that whales eat so much fish that if we kill whales lots of fish is saved in the oceans! Isn’t it better that we stop overfishing instead? Or look into other factors behind decreasing fish‚ such as pollution and habitat loss? If whales ate
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Alisa Chirco Chirco 1 WRT 160 January 11th‚ 2014 There are many issues that we as humans are currently faced with. Sylvia Earle brings to light many of those issues. Her work should be looked at closely by all as it stresses the importance of a clean ocean. There are many things that we need to change in our everyday lifestyle if we want to live in an unpolluted environment. Several major issues to consider are the amount of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB ’s) that have been found in
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Croatia’s nautical tourism – SWOT (an analysis by PM 5 students 11/2012) Strengths: • NATURAL FEATURES: natural beauty‚ clean sea‚ indented coastline‚ numerous islands‚ national parks‚ biodiversity‚ ecologically preserved marine environment and seabed • FAVOURABLE CLIMATE CHARACTERISTICS: favourable winds‚ no extreme temperatures‚ no extreme tides or tidal streams • NATURE + CLIMATE = safe navigation‚ good "experience for money" • Feeling of PERSONAL SAFETY • GEOGRAPHICAL
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Action Points 10 2 Role of NGOs in Disaster Preparedness 13 2.1 Roles and Responsibilities 13 2.2 Disaster Preparedness Framework 14 2.3 Disaster Preparedness 15 3 Role of NGOs in Disaster Mitigation 19 3.1 Relevance 19 3.2 Inclusive Approach 20 3. 3 Risk Assessment and Action Planning 20 3.4 Livelihoods 21 3.5 Water and Sanitation 22 3.6
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Management as a national priority‚ has set up a High-Powered Committee (HPC) in August 1999 and also a nation committee after the 2001 Gujarat earthquake‚ for making recommendations on the preparation of Disaster Management plans and suggestion effective mitigation mechanisms. The Tenth Five-Year Plan Document also had‚ for the first time‚ a detailed chapter on Disaster Management. Similarly‚ the Twelfth Finance Commission of India was also mandated to review the financial arrangements for Disaster Management
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produces short-term solutions to the problem‚ mainly geared to preparedness and prevention‚ rather than thinking hazard mitigation and long-term solutions i.e. the complexity paradigm. Therefore‚ following the Florida tornadoes‚ research and analysis of ways to mitigate losses would have been more appropriate‚ such as enhancing community resiliency and applying a hazard mitigation methodology focusing on risk analysis and employment of governmental controls to provide long-term solutions. Simmons and
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services running on them. You also used OpenVAS to conduct a vulnerability assessment and record the high risk vulnerabilities identified by the tool. Finally‚ you used the information you gathered from the report to discover mitigations for those risks and make mitigation recommendations based on your findings. Lab Assessment Questions & Answers 1. What is Zenmap typically used for? How is it related to Nmap? Describe a scenario in which you would use this type of application. Zenmap is a graphical
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