discuss how ‘natural’ disasters are socially constructed. While natural disasters such as floods‚ drought and hurricanes are commonly thought to occur due to environmental forces such as weather‚ climate and tectonic movements; a deeper investigation into the ‘disaster’ displays other contributing forces. Human factors have a large‚ if not equal‚ contribution to the occurrance and outcome of such disasters (Pelling‚ 2001). As Pelling (2001) argues‚ there is both a physical and human dimension to
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DISASTERS We all crave for a peaceful and prosperous living in this world. But nature is not always as tranquil as a calm lake or as azure as a cloudless sky. Nature endows us with a considerable number of great natural resources that we exploit to develop our lives in order to keep up with the rapid change of our own country. However‚ regardless of whether we fight with all might to protect the environment or step to the opposite side whose people are apt to harm it‚ nature more or less
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Leadership Factories Companies differ markedly in their ability to produce future leaders‚ as several recent analyses or former employee becoming CEO of the 1‚187 largest publicly traded U.S. companies revealed. Among the CEOs in one study‚ a remarkable total of 26 once worked at General Electric (GE). However‚ as the following table shows‚ on a per employee basis‚ that ability earns GE only tenth place in terms of the likelihood of a current or former employee becoming CEO of a large company
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of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) 7 June 2001 New York Mr. President‚ Mr. Secretary-General‚ Excellencies‚ Ladies and Gentlemen. It gives me great pleasure‚ Mr. President‚ to see you preside over this important special session of the General Assembly. I am confident that with your able leadership and diplomatic skill‚ you will steer the work of this session to a successful conclusion. Mr. President‚ Maldives being a nation of very small islands had to
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Summary and Recommendations: Natural Disaster Management From the lesson learnt among the experiences of Natural Disasters and local management for livelihood strategies in Myanmar/Burma‚ we found some key points which are the causes of natural disasters or causes making people more suffered‚ and the good experiences which peoples found and practice for emergency response or management for livelihood. Summary - Extraction on natural resources without conducting assessment on possible impacts
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In “More-than-Human Politics: The Case of Plastic Bags” Gay Hawkins argues that culture is anthropocentric in the way that humans interact with objects and matter. Hawkins argues that people should become more aware of the subject-object relationship. Hawkins is attempting to equalize the relationship between object and human‚ and escape from the cultural view always focused on humans. As Hawkins says‚ “My broad aim is to show why socio-ecological humanities research needs to pay more attention to
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The advancement of technology and the progress of man makes humans feel as though we are invincible‚ but when a natural disaster strikes we are reminded that Mother Nature still cannot be tamed and can strike at any time without warning. We have seen this in the past weeks with hurricane Harvey flooding Houston and displacing people who never in their life thought that their houses and neighborhoods might be underwater one day and left with nothing. Similar to current events‚ this image shows New
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years after Tsunami‚ while the human dimensions of the tragedy will take much longer to heal the country has made major steps towards recovering from the worst economic effects of the disaster. Apart from unrecoverable losses in human lives‚ the tsunami would cost us billions of dollars and decades to restore its damage. However‚ it also provided us a chance to look back at the serious mistakes that we have made when promoting development without considering the natural forces that sustain us. From
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Being Human Suddenly this tag is catching my attention and as days of my life pass‚ it is becoming more meaningful and relevant. I have walked much‚ seen a lot‚ been on an airy-fairy‚ grounded many a times‚ trampled‚ crushed‚ raised‚ convalesced‚ used‚ misused and disused. After all of the melodrama‚ I have realized‚ may be late‚ that this is the ultimate token of acceptability. the so called bad boy who brought it to my notice could be much more wiser than many a saints‚ what he has believed‚ he
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Harmful habits of human beings that threaten our environment We have one earth and also one environment on earth. We should care for it and we should cooperate together to keep it carefully to deliver it to next generations. Unfortunately some human’s activities threaten our earth and our environment. Main harmful habits that threaten our environment are burning fossil fuel‚ polluting environment with garbage and destroying forests. Burning fossil fuel is one of harmful activities that threaten our
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