Disaster management can be defined as the organization and management of resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies‚ in particular preparedness‚ response and recovery in order to lessen the impact of disasters. The need to address disaster management Disasters are defined as a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society. They involve widespread human‚ material‚ economic or environmental impacts‚ which exceed the ability of
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CHAPTER 1 GURGAON DISTRICT PROFILE 1. Introduction The primary requirement for making disaster management plan is the reliable and upto date information about topography and socio- economic and climatic conditions of this region. This will help in identifying the areas vulnerable to environmental and manmade hazards. This chapter deals with the information on geographical aspects of Gurgaon district‚ its area‚ population distribution‚ climatic condition‚ physiographic divisions as well as geology
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Chapter 1 Notes- The management of disasters • United nations general assembly claimed 1990s to be the ‘international decade for natural disaster reduction’ (IDNDR) • Action was taken to promote internationally coordinated efforts to reduce material losses and social and economic disruption caused by natural disasters‚ esp. developing countries. • Mission: to improve each UN member country’s capacity to prevent or diminish adverse effects from natural disasters and to establish guidelines for applying
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National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Plan: Disaster Preparedness According to the Word Disaster Report of 2012‚ The Philippines ranks third of the most disaster-prone countries. Because it is situated on a geologically unstable region and is surrounded by many subduction zones that may cause earthquakes‚ volcanic eruptions‚ landslides‚ typhoon and tsunamis‚ it is impossible to stop natural disasters from hitting our country; all we can do is to manage risks. The National Disaster Risk
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BACKGROUND 1. One of the primary concerns of any nation state is to ensure peace and security for sustainable development. Any nation whose human and material resources are constantly decimated by disasters and whose citizenry is regularly traumatised cannot be mobilised for any meaningful development. Most times‚ disasters occur with such regularity that huge human and material resources‚ which could have otherwise been used in national development‚ are lost annually to address disasters and for the rehabilitation
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assessment. You must enter your own details prior to submission. STUDENT DETAILS ACAP Student ID: 220124 Name: Petrina O’Brien Course: B. App. Soc. Sci. (BASSIX) ASSESSMENT DETAILS Unit/Module: Secondary Socialisation Educator: Joni Harvey Assessment Name: Interpersonal Communication Assessment Number: 1 Term & Year: 1 - 2014 Word Count: 500 DECLARATION I declare that this assessment is my own work
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1 Secondary data analysis: an introduction All data are the consequence of one person asking questions of someone else. (Jacob 1984: 43) This chapter introduces the field of secondary data analysis. It begins by considering what it is that we mean by secondary data analysis‚ before describing the type of data that might lend itself to secondary analysis and the ways in which the approach has developed as a research tool in social and educational research. The second part of the chapter considers
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THE HILLSBOROUGH DISASTER Name: Affiliation: PART 1 Critically discuss the role of defamation law as guardian of the truth‚ focussing on the inaccurate reporting‚ which led to The Sun newspaper publishing a front-page article‚ headlined “The Truth‟ on 19th April 1989. Defamation law safeguards an individual’s rights against a defamatory statement that cause public contempt‚ hatred‚ or ridicule[1]
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IMPORTANCE OF TERTIARY SECTOR WHAT IS TERTIARY SECTOR? The tertiary sector of the economy (also known as the service sector or the service industry) is one of the three economic sectors‚ the others being the secondary sector (approximately the same as manufacturing) and the primary sector (agriculture‚ fishing‚ and extraction such as mining). The service sector consists of the "soft" parts of the economy‚ i.e. activities where people offer their knowledge and time to improve productivity‚ performance
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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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