FLOODS A river flood is a flow in excess of the channel capacity to accommodate the peak discharge‚ and occurs when the amount of water arriving on land exceeds the capacity of the land to discharge that water by infiltration‚ surface flow or drainage pipes. Flooding of river valleys and coastal areas is the most frequent of natural hazards and is one of the most significant in terms of death‚ injuries and long-term social and economic impacts. Flooding regularly claims over 20‚000 lives a year
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Image A Image B The viewer of District 9 would see Image B when the hand-held camera is tracking through the city of Johannesburg. The sign represents that the aliens are not allowed in any specific areas around the city restricting them off access to certain services. This is shown by the red cross going through its body and by using the word “only” makes specific reference to a specific race/species. This is symbolic of segregation as seen during the Apartheid era‚ which is shown in Image
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As a result of this being the first eruption of the volcano for 500 years‚ very few methods of preparedness had been put in place as it was thought that the volcano was dormant. This made the impacts of the volcano particularly significant as settlements covered
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Sociology: The term “sociology” was coined by August Comte in the nineteenth century from the Latin word“socios” (companion with others) and the Greek word “logos” (study of reason) to describe the new science of social life. "In the sense‚ sociology is the study of human interactions and inter-relations‚ their conditions and consequences".“The science of social phenomena "subject to natural and invariable laws‚ the discovery of which is the object of investigation" "Sociology is a general
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part vii THE HIGH-RISE AND THE SLUM: SPECULATIVE URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN MUMBAI 0001312817.INDD 787 7/7/2011 5:54:24 PM 0001312817.INDD 788 7/7/2011 5:54:24 PM THE HIGH-RISE AND THE SLUM: SPECULATIVE URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN MUMBAI matias echanove and rahul srivastava Introduction There seems to be a prevailing perception that apart from its southernmost colonial quarters‚ Mumbai is essentially a schizophrenic urbanscape where emergent islands of modernity are surrounded
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POLITICAL ISLAM IN THE ERA OF NEOLIBERALISM The main topics The post-Islamist Turn (Asef Bayat) The relationship between the urban dispossessed and radical Islam (Asef Bayat) Understanding of political Islam from a historical materialist perspective (the debate between Amin and Tariq Amin-Khan) “What is post-Islamsim”: First of all‚ it should be clarified at the very beginning that the categories “Islamism” and “post-Islamism” serve primarily as theoretical constructs to signify change‚ difference
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Chapter 3 Settling the Northern Colonies 1619-1700 The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism Martin Luther . He declared that the Bible alone was the source of God’s words. He started the "Protestant Reformation." John Calvin He spelled out his doctrine in 1536 called Institutes of the Christian Religion. He formed Calvinism. King Henry VIII formed the Protestant Church. There were a few people who wanted to see the process of taking Catholicism out of England occur more quickly
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The aim of every Caribbean country is to realize growth and development over time so as to achieve first world status. Most of the Caribbean countries are ranked as middle income countries. These countries realize that achieving first world status is a long term initiative given the many social problems that we face as a Caribbean nation. Among the many social problems that we face‚ poverty is the most pervasive of them all. Despite the effort of many of these countries to try and eradicate poverty
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SUSTAINABILITY AND CITY DEVELOPMENT A critique of the Implementation of the Abuja master plan By DANMOLE‚ Taibat OLAITAN M.Sc; RTP Department of Urban and Regional Planning‚ University of Lagos‚ Akoka-Yaba‚ Lagos‚ Nigeria (Being paper presented for publication by Environmental Conservation Research Team‚ FUT- Akure - Sept 2004) ABSTRACT Rapid urban expansion without effective environmental consciousness means that in virtually every urban
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Bangladesh: A Land of Climate Change‚ Migration and Vulnerability M. Mizanur Rahman Climate change is nothing to be seen in the open eye rather it is an issue of observation and understanding. With some macroeconomic analysis‚ it has been shown a number of times that climatic change will have the impact on both the level and growth of the Gross Domestic Production (GDP) especially in the poor countries. But the micro-economic analysis of individuals gives birth to a more serious scenario when
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