DISASTER MANAGEMENT BECOMING A DISASTER MANAGER TOPICS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. ACCOUNT ON A DISASTER HAZARD DISASTER TYPES OF DISASTERS HAZARD TO A DISASTER DISASTER MANAGEMENT PHASES OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT ON A DISASTER THE EARTHQUAKE OF 25 JANUARY 2001 IN GUJARAT‚ INDIA George Pararas-Carayannis Introduction On 25 January 2001‚ a major earthquake occurred in Gujarat‚ a prosperous industrial and agricultural state on India’s west coast‚ close to the border with Pakistan. The quake
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The Challenger Disaster By: Kathy Neuner & Jeremy Rider Executive Summary Many factors must be examined to find the underlying reason for the horrible disaster of the space shuttle Challenger. We will cover both the technical causes to the disaster and the communication breakdown with NASA. We will also look at the outside pressure that NASA was receiving from the media‚ congress and the military. Recommendations for NASA and anyone in the communication field will be given. These recommendations
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The Disasters of War (Spanish: Los Desastres de la Guerra) are a series of 82[a 1] prints created between 1810 and 1820 by the Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya (1746–1828). Although Goya did not make known his intention when creating the plates‚ art historians view them as a visual protest against the violence of the 1808 Dos de Mayo Uprising‚ the subsequent Peninsular War of 1808–14 and the setbacks to the liberal cause following the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814. During
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School of Nutrition and Hospitality Management Description: It is an improvised flashlight that is very useful during calamaties and at the evacuation area. It is made out of recycled bottles with wires connected to it to the batteries College of Optometry Description: It is called “Solar Oven” and it is obviosly made out of foil. It can be used as a means of cooking foods and/or used to sterilized things by the used of foil that serve as the main conductor of heat coming from the sun.
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author and subject of the autobiography was arrested in December 1943. An anti-Fascist Italian Jew‚ he was sent to a prison camp in Italy and then deported to Auschwitz in February‚ 1944. He admitted his heritage of being both Italian and Jewish. During the forced evacuation‚ 650 Jewish men are packed into twelve goods wagons. The trip is slow and tortuous; no food or water is provided and the weather is freezing. Of the forty-five people in Levi’s car‚ only four survive the Holocaust. The German
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10‚000.) Rescue efforts have been hampered by incessant rains and the tough mountain terrain. Even as television channels beamed horrific visuals of the calamity‚ the debate on whether the industrialisation of the hill state had contributed to the disaster turned into a face-off between environmentalists and the chief minister Vijay Bahuguna‚ who claimed the tragedy was a natural calamity. "This is a very childish argument that cloudbursts‚ earthquakes and tsunamis are because of human factors. In
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The Government’s Role in the Centralia Disaster Jason Smith Strayer University PAD500 Modern Public Administration 2012 The Government’s Role in the Centralia Disaster This paper will explore logistical alternatives to those chosen by Mine Inspector Driscoll O. Scanlan as described in “The Blast in Centralia No.5: A Mine Disaster No one Stopped” by John Bartlow Martin (Denhardt‚ R. B.‚ & Denhardt‚ J. V. 2010 p31-44). We will seek to
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Presented By: What is a Disaster? There is no particular definition for a Disaster. But we can define a disaster as a natural or manmade hazard resulting to physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the natural environment. Types of Disasters Natural Disasters: Earth quakes Tsunamis Floods Snow storms Manmade Disasters: Fires Nuclear accidents DEFORESTATION War Disaster Management Disaster management is the discipline that involves
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Chernobyl Disaster Today‚ I am going to discuss about the biggest nuclear disaster that happened in the Worlds History. It’s called as Chernobyl disaster. This Disaster happened in Ukraine which was part of Soviet Union by then. It happened at the Chernobyl site between Pripyat and Chernobyl. The reason of this disaster is mainly human negligence and lack of knowledge. 25 April 1986... It was a beautiful Friday night with cool breeze blowing with a slight humidity. People were in their homes
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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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