Activity 1.1: 1. Develop for yourself a working definition of disasters from a community perspective. According to the Disaster Management Act 2003‚ A disaster is a serious disruption in a community‚ caused by the impact of an event that requires a significant coordinated response by the State and other entities to help the community recover from the disruption. Serious disruption means— (a) loss of human life‚ or illness or injury to humans; or (b) widespread or severe property loss or damage; or
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Natural Disasters The government has come under fire quite a few times following natural disasters. Their main responsibility in response to these disasters is to provide the tools citizens in the affected area need to recover as quickly as possible. The first and most important response is to food and water needs of the displaced. The communication of the distribution location has proven to be difficult to find out immediately after the destruction takes place. Also‚ extended shelter seems
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ASSIGNMENT 1 TITLE:BHOPAL DISASTER DATE: 30 NOVEMBER 2009 1. Abstract The night of 3rd December marked an industrial disaster when more than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal‚ India that instantly led to the death of approximately 3‚800 people and causing permanent injuries for thousands more. The company involved shamelessly tried to avoid its legal responsibility. Nonetheless‚ a sum of $470 million was paid as compensation‚ a considerably small amount in
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ENGINEERING DISASTERS We can also call Engineering as in invisible science. No one can actually see how it works but it actually exists like an air. Example: Plain flies‚ building stands and many more. We don’t think how a building can stand weight without collapsing. Similar to apple’s company’s Moto ‘it just works. Here the main problems are not the designs but the material the use up building that design. The concept of total cost minimization is the roots of such accidents that just ruins lives
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apply disaster management program into Cambodia? Disaster management is a process or strategy that is implemented before‚ during or after any type of catastrophic event takes place. Nowadays‚ Cambodia does not have a law on disaster management yet‚ which is an essentially to cope with natural disaster. To help deal with potential disasters in the future‚ I think that the National Committee for Disaster Management and together with some other relevant institutions should be set up the disaster management
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to Disaster Recovery Planning: The basics to getting started. Brace Rennels‚ Business Continuity published: March 2006 Executive Summary When you think about your disaster recovery plan‚ does your tape backup system come to mind? Does the mere mention of disaster recovery make you a bit nervous? If so‚ you’re not alone. Many businesses risk grave losses due to failures and disasters yet continue to depend on their tape backups to help them recover successfully should a major outage occur. The
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ensure peace and security for sustainable development. Any nation whose human and material resources are constantly decimated by disasters and whose citizenry is regularly traumatised cannot be mobilised for any meaningful development. Most times‚ disasters occur with such regularity that huge human and material resources‚ which could have otherwise been used in national development‚ are lost annually to address disasters and for the rehabilitation of their victims. The magnitude of the pain or
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A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ catastrophic accidents‚ fires‚ orexplosions. It is a phenomenon that can cause damage to life and property and destroy the economic‚ social and cultural life of people. In contemporary
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India‚ Pakistan‚ and Bangladesh are prone to natural disasters of various kinds on a continual basis. Coupled with high population density‚ poverty‚ illiteracy and lack of infrastructure‚ the natural disasters kill thousands of people and leave a devastating impact on economy and environment. The importance of telecommunication in disaster management has been widely accepted since the early days of the development of radio communication. Disasters can strike without warning at any time of the day or
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technology are the main cause why the family ties have become looser today. This issue became a hot topic to be discussed or look after by the people throughout the world. Internet affairs are one of the reasons why the family ties have become looser. The growing numbers of people on “mainstream dating sites” were married or in a relationship but posing as singles in order to start an affair. Internet affairs and physical contact affairs are similar because they both involve another partner. Some married
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