natural disasters on account of its unique geo-climatic conditions. Floods‚ droughts‚ cyclones‚ earthquakes and landslides have been a recurrent phenomenon. About 60% of the landmass is prone to earthquakes of various intensities; over 40 million hectares is prone to floods; about 8% of the total area is prone to cyclones and 68% of the area is susceptible to drought. In the decade 1990-2000‚ an average of about 4344 people lost their lives and about 30 million people were affected by disasters every
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Course Title: Disaster Risk and Resilience Management Student’s Profile: Degree: Doctorate Major: Strategic Planning and Management ATLANTIC INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY Table of Contents | Title | Page | 1. | Introduction | 4 | 2. | Justification2.1. International Disaster Management2.2. The Hyogo Framework of Action2.3. Disaster Risk Management Tools2.4. Disaster Risk Management Definitions/Terminologies2.5. Disaster Risk Management Framework2.6. Key Elements of Disaster Risk Management2
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Disaster Preparedness and Management Assignment No. 1 [pic] Submitted to: Sir Muhammad Akmal Khan Submitted by: Tayyab Hasnain Janjua Reg # 14DD-410004 D.DRM Second Quarter Fall 2010 Disaster Management Cycle Disaster Risk Management includes sum total of all activities‚ programmes and measures which can be taken up before‚ during and after a disaster with the purpose to avoid a disaster‚ reduce its impact or recover from its losses. The three key stages of activities that are
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Disaster Management in Pakistan On 26th October this year‚ thirty six trapped Chilean mine workers were rescued by drilling a deep hole into the mine. A month later‚ twenty nine mine workers in Newzeland died after remaining trapped for days in a mine. Poor disaster management cost precious lives. In Pakistan‚ too‚ Disaster management is not up to the mark. Be it the devastating earthquake‚ the catastrophic floods‚ the outbreak of fires or the aftermath of bomb blasts‚ the management was
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1986‚ the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded during launch‚ taking the lives of six astronauts and one teacher. Questions arose about what factors led to this disaster. I will discuss these factors in terms of general engineering disasters. In an article “Explaining Disasters” (Harris 1995)‚ three factors are discussed which cause disasters: bad management‚ engineering faults and bad ethics. Success for any company depends on good management. A communication gap between management and the employees
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1. Disaster Recovery Plan Due in Week Three: For your selected scenario‚ describe the key elements of the Disaster Recovery Plan to be used in case of a disaster and the plan for testing the DRP. 1.1. Risk Assessment 1.1.1. Critical business processes List the mission-critical business systems and services that must be protected by the DRP. Online services must be protected to ensure that both employees and customers will be able to access the programs and information to continue running the
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A disaster recovery plan is an HIPPA security standard and its objectives are to establish policies and procedures for responding to an emergency (vandalism‚ system failure‚ and natural disaster) that may damage or interrupt systems that contain PHI. In brief‚ the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act‚ commonly known as HIPAA‚ was enacted on August 21‚ 1996‚ by the United States Congress and signed President Bill Clinton. HIPPA regulates national standards to protect individuals’ health
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unfiltered actuality‚ and consumers question the morality of the images based on the fact that children and corpses are unable to give consent. Her work feels too personal and too private. Mainly‚ issues are brought up that question privacy and if Mann compromised her children’s safety‚ if Sally Mann’s photographs are even art‚ and the ethical meanings of consent and nudity explored in her art. Through careful examination it can easily be decided that Mann’s photographs
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1. Mariner Bugs Out (1962) Cost: $18.5 million Disaster: The Mariner 1 rocket with a space probe headed for Venus diverted from its intended flight path shortly after launch. Mission Control destroyed the rocket 293 seconds after liftoff. Cause: A programmer incorrectly transcribed a handwritten formula into computer code‚ missing a single superscript bar. Without the smoothing function indicated by the bar‚ the software treated normal variations of velocity as if they were serious‚ causing
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Disaster Recovery Plan Disaster Recovery Plan Provide an overview of the organization that will be delivered to senior management‚ defining the business goals and objectives and the size‚ layout‚ and structure of the organization. TechWidgets Inc.‚ is an e-commerce company that provides merchandise to its customers through a web store. The core infrastructure is made up of 10 web servers in a single cluster to handle browsing requests‚ 5 servers in the web store clusters to hand transactions
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