ASSIGNMENT 1 TITLE:BHOPAL DISASTER DATE: 30 NOVEMBER 2009 1. Abstract The night of 3rd December marked an industrial disaster when more than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal‚ India that instantly led to the death of approximately 3‚800 people and causing permanent injuries for thousands more. The company involved shamelessly tried to avoid its legal responsibility. Nonetheless‚ a sum of $470 million was paid as compensation‚ a considerably small amount in
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Decision Making and Problem Solving Independent Study November 2005 FEMA TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Course Overview......................................................................................................................... 1 Unit 1: Course Introduction Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 1.1 Decisions in Emergency Management .................................................
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Recent trends in the primary market – Explained! by Saritha Pujari Business Average annual capital mobilisation from the primary market‚ which used to be about Rs. 70 crore in the 1960s and about Rs. 90 crore in the 1970s‚ increased manifold during the 1980s‚ with the amount raised in 1990-91 being Rs. 4‚312 crore. It received a further boost during the 1990s with the capital raised by non-government public companies. There is a preference for raising resources in the primary market through private
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* Access model * A model that explores how an individual or groups relative resilience to disasters is impacted by differences in access to the economic or political resources needed to secure a livelihood. * The strengths of the model are that it provides a broad view of vulnerability including root causes‚ it gives weight to natural hazards‚ and it provides a framework for looking at livelihoods and vulnerability. * The limitation of the model‚ is that it is a tool for explaining
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A natural disaster can occurs due to our carelessness. Global Warming is one of the natural disasters that we are facing today. Its effect is due to our carbon emissions (greenhouse gases) from industries. These greenhouse gases are trapped in the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases trapped heat from the sun radiation as well as from the earth. Atmosphere protects the earth to maintain a constant temperature by trapping the heat from the sun. However‚ due to the greenhouse effects‚ it traps heat more than
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Natural Disaster/Hazard Paper For my paper I will be talking about the 1994 Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17‚ 1994. The earthquake was centered in Reseda‚ a neighborhood in the north-central San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles‚ California. “It was a 6.7 magnitude earthquake that lasted 10 – 20 seconds. In addition‚ two 6.0 magnitude aftershocks occurred‚ the first about one minute after the initial event and the second approximately 11 hours later‚ the strongest of several thousand
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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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research with a thorough search of secondary sources of data • To articulate the advantages of secondary data • To highlight the potential errors which can be hidden within secondary data • To outline some of the main internal and external sources of data available to commercial enterprises‚ and • To help the reader to recognise the transition‚ in marketing research‚ from a dependence upon published sources of secondary data to electronically stored secondary data. Structure Of The Chapter
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The San Francisco Earthquake In 1906 the world’s most deadly earthquake that ever happened‚ happened in San Francisco‚ Northern California on April 18th at 5: 12 am. The San Francisco earthquake caused problems for many of the people in the community; it caused lots of devastations throughout the whole city. The earthquake happened by a temblor that had a 7.7-7‚ 9 magnitude‚ which had lasted for about a minute and was the result of breaking the northernmost 296 miles of the 800-mile San Andreas
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1. A primary reinforce is define as “reinforcer than satisfies a biological need” (Ballantyne‚ Hull‚ Licht‚ 2016‚ p. 193). This compares to secondary reinforce which “does not satisfy biological needs but often gain their power through their association with primary reinforce” (Ballantyne‚ Hull‚ Licht‚ 2016‚ p. 193). Both of these reinforcers are found everywhere. An example of a primary reinforce is food and water since it is life sustaining. An example of a secondary reinforcer in my life is getting
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