With reference to various examples‚ 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
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Company profile 1. Kingfisher Airlines : Kingfisher Airlines Ltd is India’s largest company for chartered aviation. They operate in commercial passenger airlines‚ private helicopter and chartered airplane divisions. They also have Air Deccan‚ India’s low cost carrier in their business units. It was started on June 15‚ 1995 with Deccan Aviation as name and as private limited company. The promoters of the company were G R Gopinath‚ K J Samuel and Vishnu Singh Rawal. In Jan 2005‚ it was converted
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Re-urbanisation is the process that people are moving back into the city from the suburb. It is a common process in some parts of the world especially in MEDCs. London Docklands would be a typical example. Pull factors of London Docklands: After the London Docklands Regeneration Program in 1981 by London Docklands Development Corporation. Docklands was no longer a zone of discard and instead‚ it became the home of more than 1120 million pounds public-sector and 8420 million pounds private-sector
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The Unorganized Sector and Urban Poverty: A Policy Analysis Manas Kumar Mallik( & Dr. C. Aruna( Abstract The construction of poverty line should be on the basis of socially accepted minimum standard of living. Poverty abounds both in the rural and urban sectors of the economy. The nature of poverty in rural sector is intense and manifest amongst the peasant-cultivators with very small holdings and landless labourers. Poverty in urban areas is an extension of rural poverty where migrant’s
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Wales have to enter into the performance industry in comparison to people in Mumbai? Introduction For my investigation I have chosen to do about performing arts and how opportunities are available for people who want to acquire in the industry. I want to compare what opportunities they have for people who inspire to be performers in Wales in comparison to Mumbai. I have chosen Mumbai for my country to compare it to as Mumbai is the central area of Bollywood‚ which gives me more of a chance of getting
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Name of the Institutions whose Two Year Full Time Postgraduate Diploma in Management* has been equated with MBA Degree for purpose of Higher Education S.No. Name of the Institute Course Address Equivalence Offered Granted 1. Amity Business School‚ Noida (UP) PGDM Amity Delhi/Noida Campus 2002- till the (Now University) Block E2 inception of the Amity University Campus university Sector-125‚ Noida – 201 303 (UP) 2. Amrita Institute of Management‚ PGDM Amrita School of Business
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week one is as follows‚ what would be the quantities that would need amendment as far as Distribution Manager is concerned to service for week two and onwards? After week one the actual sales to Forecasted sales for week one ratio is as under: Mumbai did 80 % of forecast ‚ Lucknow did 75 % of forecast Kolkata did 60 % of week one forecast Chennai did 125 % of forecast and Delhi did 150 % of week one forecast [pic] Note : Kolkata will receive transit stocks in week 2 . CASE-3
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ART DECO Art Deco‚ or Deco‚ is an influential visual arts design style which first appeared in France during the 1920s‚ flourished internationally during the 30s and 40s‚ then waned in the post-World War II era.] It is an eclectic style that combines traditional craft motifs with Machine Age imagery and materials. The style is often characterized by rich colors‚ bold geometric shapes and lavish ornamentation. Deco emerged from the Interwar period when rapid industrialization was transforming
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Early years Born in 1944‚ Manya Surve moved to Mumbai with his mother and stepfather. He was a B. A. graduate from Kirti College and formed a gang of students during his years there‚ due to the influence of his stepbrother Bhargav Dada. Bhargav was a feared thug from Agar Bazar in Dadar. He also won "Mumbai Shri" title in body building. In 1969‚ Surve was involved in the murder of a man named Dandekar‚ with him and an associate‚ Manya Podhkar. The trio were soon arrested by Police Inspector E.S
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Will the BRIC’s Decade Continue 1. Introduction Jim O’Neill‚ global economist at Goldman Sachs‚ coined the term BRIC countries in 2001 and argued that the economic potentials of the emerging markets of Brazil‚ Russia‚ India‚ and China are immense in the decades to come. BRIC countries have performed amazingly well over the last decade. In many cases‚ they have far outperformed the advanced industrialized countries in terms of economic growth and assessments by ratings agencies. As the first year
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