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    Prevention and Mitigation Analysis In this paper the subject to discuss is the prevention and mitigation analysis of the Arizona Department of Correction’s Morey Unit hostage situation. This incident was very terrible in the United States history in escapes made from prisons. In Buckeye‚ Arizona at the Lewis Prison Correction facility in the Morey‚ on January 18‚ 2004‚ Ricky Wassenaar and Steven Coy made an attempt to escape from the unit by taking two correctional officers hostage and took

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    Morey Unit Prevention and Mitigation Analysis Riots and disturbances in prisons are not a new phenomenon in the United States and in the past decades there has been a continuation of these destructive and violent events. The prison riot at a phenomenon can be used in a number of ways. The term riot can be defined as the act of inmates taking control of a significant portion of a prison or correctional center for a significant period of time (American Correctional Association‚ 2010). Also‚ the term

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    Disaster Mitigation

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    PHASES OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT prevent the fore coming  PREVENTION: Trying to disasters .  MITIGATION: An attempt to prevent the hazards from developing in to disasters.  PREPARE: It includes planning ‚ training etc.‚ to mitigate the effects of natural & manmade disaster.  RESPONSE: It includes the mobilization of emergency services.  RECOVERY: Its aim is to restore the affected area to its previous state. Mitigation   Any activity that reduces either the chance of a hazard

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    Hazard Mitigation

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    CHAPTER 7 HAZARD MITIGATION This chapter will explain what hazard mitigation is‚ and how it fits in with the other phases of emergency management. Next‚ the chapter will describe the most widely used mitigation strategies and the ways they are applied to the most common types of environmental hazards. The following section will describe the legal basis for hazard mitigation as it stands in the United States today. Problems in the adoption and implementation of mitigation policies will be described

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    Mitigation In The 1990s

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    1990s‚ the most of mitigation programs were solely focus on natural hazards (Roberts‚ p. 134). The maximum end of creating a mitigation directorate was to move the agency away from national security functions toward natural hazards that are more easily mitigated than prevented (Roberts‚ p. 134). James Lee Witt‚ oversaw FEMA reorganization and he as the director promoted the idea of mitigation at the local and state level throughout the 1990s. As a result‚ mitigation became associated with the policies

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    Deforestation Mitigation

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    Deforestation Mitigation Strategies Tropical rainforests cover approximately thirty percent of the earth’s land area‚ around 2.5 million square miles‚ the size of the lower 48 states‚ despite the fact 80‚000 acres (32‚000) hectares are destroyed per day for economic reasons. Tropical rainforests are biodiversity hotspots. Rainforests are carbon sinks absorbing about half the carbon dioxide humans release into the atmosphere. Continued deforestation will affect the entire world with the ecological

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    Plea in Mitigation

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    Plea in Mitigation in favour of Mr A Your honour‚ please grant me permission to make a plea in mitigation in favour my client Mr A‚ who has been charged with the offence of rape on Miss B ‚ an ex-member of a temple and the offense is punishable under Criminal Code sec 249 which refers to Rape wherein it is mentioned that : (1) Any person who is guilty of the crime of rape shall be liable to penal servitude for a term which shall not be less than 10 years. The substance of my plea is that

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    Impact Mitigation

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    HES4810 IMPACT MITIGATION MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT 03 DLAMINI ZANELE ZAKHE Student no: 46407413 Lecture: Mrs Unine van den Berg 25 September 2012 Question 1.1 Table of contents Page 1.1.1 Purpose activity 4 1.1.2 Environmental Management Programme (EMPr) administration 4 1.1.3 Objectives of the EMPr 4 1.1.4 Roles and responsibilities 4 1.1.5 EMPr for housing complex 6 1.1.6 References 17

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    AVALANCHE DANGER AND AVALANCHE MITIGATION STRATEGIES: LINKAGES TO CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN SERFAUS‚ AUSTRIA by Larissa Nora van der Laan CAPSTONE THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Leiden University College The Hague Supervisor: Dr. Paul Hudson 2013 Abstract Snow avalanches are a constant hazard in the Alps‚ threatening tourists and inhabitants. The objective of this thesis is to research the linkages between

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    MITIGATION. The term ‘disaster mitigation’ is variously understood by different people in different disciplines. The meaning of the word mitigate as “to mollify; to make easily borne; to temper’. Therefore one may consider mitigation action as if it will happen after the event. Various disasters like earthquake‚ landslides‚ volcanic eruptions‚ fires‚ flood and cyclones

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