Module 1 Activity 1.1: 1. Develop for yourself a working definition of disasters from a community perspective. According to the Disaster Management Act 2003‚ A disaster is a serious disruption in a community‚ caused by the impact of an event that requires a significant coordinated response by the State and other entities to help the community recover from the disruption. Serious disruption means— (a) loss of human life‚ or illness or injury to humans; or (b) widespread or severe property
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History Before the days of trucking there was the railroad. The railroad was responsible for shipping goods across the country. Today we still have the railroad‚ but the trucking industry is what dominates shipping in our society. As of 2012 68.5 percent of our goods were shipped on tractor trailers‚ with only 14.8 percent of freight being shipped in rail cars (Costello‚ 2012). The railroads began to see a decline around the time of World War I. During this time the railroad had 254‚000 miles
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filled with small bits and pieces of addiction. As I began to get older‚ it had become much more visible. Although my mother is the sweetest person that I have ever known‚ she is an addict. I have witnessed her struggle with recovery for many years. As she worked on her recovery‚ my father helped take care my sisters and I. My father did the best that he could possibly do. However‚ some things were out of his control. Two of my sisters began to fall under the spell of addiction. Watching someone who
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DATABASE SPECIFICATIONS Huffman Fleet Truck Maintenance Team A May‚ 2009 Revision Sheet Release No. Date Revision Description 1 5/2/09 Initial creation of document - Kramer 3 5/3/09 Addition of POC and Abbreviations - McCoy 4 5/4/09 Schema - section 2.5.1 DATABASE SPECIFICATIONS TABLE OF CONTENTS Page # 1.0 GENERAL INFORMATION 2 1.1 Purpose 2 1.2 Scope 2 1.3 System Overview 1 1.4 Project References 1 1.5 Acronyms and Abbreviations 1 1.6 Points of Contact
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Essay on The Natural Disaster (Flood In Pakistan) There are many questions emerging from the recent floods in Pakistan‚ ranging from attempts to understand the atmospheric phenomena behind the downpours to the search for where ultimate responsibility lies for the ensuing human calamity. This short essay investigates some of those questions. A pinch of geography is necessary to explain why Pakistan received such an extraordinary amount of rain during this rainy season. The Indian monsoon can
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What is disaster management? What are the various stages that it involves? The terminology may differ depending on where you are. In New Zealand‚ for example‚ you would be talking of the 4R’s‚ namely Readiness‚ Response‚ Recovery and Reduction. In other places‚ such as Indonesia‚ it could be as outlined in the graphic below: (Disaster management: click to enlarge) There are no standardized rules defining the different phases of the disaster management cycle. Different agencies use different cycles
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INTRODUCTION TO DISASTER 1.1 THE HISTORY OF DISASTERS IN INDIA Year 2005‚ say India should hang her head in shame. With the Bengal famine‚ Orissa Super Cyclone‚ Latur earthquake‚ Bhopal chemical disaster‚ Andhra cyclone‚ Gujarat earthquake‚ recurring floods‚ Mumbai 2008 bomb blasts and many other disasters there is no foyer in the world with space large enough to exhibit the collective pain on the face of India. India has ranked at the top or near top in almost all type of disasters with number
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1.0 INTRODUCTION Disasters are as old as human history. However‚ whether an event qualifies as a disaster or not has often depended upon who is doing the definition. Individuals‚ governments and humanitarian agencies have attempted to define disaster in various ways depending on their roles‚ biases‚ interests and capabilities. The United Nations Development Programme has defined disaster as an occurrence of a sudden or major misfortune which disrupts the basic fabric and normal functioning of a
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IT For Disaster Management Nicolas Mancini Solvay Business School (Brussels) ------------------------------------------------- Table Of Contents I. Abstract II. Brief overview of Disaster Management a. Key concepts b. Disaster Management Cycle III. IT solutions for Disaster Management c. Disaster Management Information Systems (DMIS) d. IT for Prevention‚ Preparedness and Mitigation i. Geographic
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IT/240 XYZ Computers When it comes to the company XYZ Computers the disaster recovery plan needs to incorporate a lot of different questions that have to be answered before you can implement whatever they want achieved. The main questions that are brought up when assessing any question is‚”How do we fix this? What are the costs associated with the plan presented?” Another question that should be asked but often isn’t‚ is “Can we anticipate this problem to help block it before it happens?” From
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