Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3. Literature Review 1. Risk Management in Humanitarian Relief Operations 2. Commercial Supply chain and Humanitarian Supply Chain – A Comparative Study 4. Case Study 1. The Yogyakarta Earthquake – Humanitarian Relief Operations through IFRC’s Decentralized Supply Chain. 5. Areas to focus for Future Research 1. Sourcing and Supplier Management 2. Performance Management
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and tsunami in Japan was a disastrous event in mankind. It killed thousands and displaced even more. The reason that I want to become an engineer is so that I can improve the lives of people all around the world by making life safer. My goal is to become educated by going to an institution for higher learning in order to improve the safety of others. By creating better methods of engineering‚ we as a society can become a safer people. The massive earthquake that triggered the massive tsunami could
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to collapse. The damage of properties can lead to secondary effects such as fire‚ which is produced because of the rupture of natural gas mains and water lines. Second‚ other post-earthquake threats are tsunamis. In many cases‚ the slip fault is located beneath the sea which can produce tsunamis. Tidal waves wash ashore and water moves inland‚ causing severe flooding‚ the loss of lives due to drowning and damage to property. To conclude‚ there are two main reasons as well as consequences of earthquakes
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FSTG111 Exploring the Earth Assignment 1 Study Figure I-1 and answer the following questions: (a) With which type of plate boundary are most of the modern volcanoes associated? _______________________________________________________________________ (b) Identify the following volcanoes and indicate the plate-tectonic environment of each (all of these are listed in Table 1): Volcano Plate 1. Mount St. Helens‚ WA 2. Kilauea‚ Hawaii 3. Krakatoa‚ Indonesia Tectonic Environment -----------------------
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investment‚ government spending‚ and exports. We will use March 2011 Tohoku as a case study on the impact of natural disasters on Japan GDP. Initial Impact of Natural DIsaster Personal Consumption - The immediate aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami is only natural for consumption to decrease due to stores being closed or destroyed in the disaster area and reduced income from the disruption in work. Exports - Japan’s economy is largely export-based‚ and the immediate aftermath of March 2011
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Environment: South and Southeast Asia Hopefully you are studying this lesson before lunch. Imagine a place where the only water there is to drink comes from a nearby river. You become thirsty so you head down there with a pail. When you arrive‚ there are two things that catch your eye. Upstream‚ a woman is washing her family’s clothes along the same shoreline. She is using a kind of soap made from animal fat. Between the two of you‚ there are several cows standing around in the water‚ drinking.
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to refugee and to try to escape the planet’s heightened change in the elements. The story is based on the idea that the end of the Mayan calendar on December 21st‚ 2012 foretells an apocalypse. The film features volcanic eruptions‚ floods‚ tsunamis- and a 10.9 earthquake that rips California apart. 1 First of all: what are earthquakes? Earthquakes are sudden (and sometimes‚ violently destructive) shakings of the ground caused by moving plates. Our planet’s seemingly stable surface
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English aided Portugal in 1147 of The Great Siege of Lisbon‚ during the Second Crusade creating a start of a newfound friendship between the two countries. The Aliança Luso-Britânica was ratified at the Treaty of Windsor in 1386 becoming the oldest alliance in the world still in working order agreeing that if‚ at any point one of the royal members need help‚ assistance in a most respected and lawful manner will be delivered if able to do so without any deceit or fraud by the other party. To secure
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causes climate change and According to UNEP‚ the great increase in numbers of extreme weather events in this decade is a direct result of climate change. Moreover‚ many scientists around the world believed that the 2004 Thailand’s tsunami is the most devastating tsunami ever occurred. Thirdly‚ more than a million species are face extinction from changing climate‚ disappearing habitat‚ and acidifying oceans. For example‚ polar bears are suffering from the sea-ice loss. So now we know why we have
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New Risks Begin to Surface COLOMBO‚ Sri Lanka‚ 29 December 2004 - The devastating tsunamis that struck south Asia on December 26 have left over 21‚700 dead and thousands of children‚ women and men missing in Sri Lanka‚ one of nine countries that were affected by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and its aftereffects. More than 700‚000 people have been displaced from their homes. These survivors face an array of dangers -- disease‚ lack of clean water and sanitation facilities. "We are very concerned
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