Wetland Destruction Wetlands are very important to the ecosystem and human communities. They filter pollution‚ provide habitat for countless species‚ endangered plants and provide natural flood protection. In the 1600s more than 220 million acres of wetlands existed. Due to farming and development‚ by 1980 more than half of those had been destroyed. Wetland destruction is becoming a huge problem. Not only are wetlands disappearing but those still existing are suffering degradation from chemical
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Mitigation Planning Initiative Goals ü ü ü Reduce flood losses. Improve response and recovery. Enhance community confidence. Objectives ü Establish on-going floodway acquisition & land-use program. ü Rezone floodway to reflect current uses. ü Develop a written Flood Response & Recovery Plan. Accomplishments (Mitigation Strategies Being Implemented) ü A floodway is being converted to a riverside park and recreation area. ü Homes in the flood fringe are being raised above the 100 year elevation
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I am going to compare the physical and human flooding causes for an MEDC; the UK and an LEDC; Bangladesh. The Boscastle Floods‚ in Cornwall occurred on August 16th 2004. Between July and September of 1998‚ Bangladesh also incurred large amounts of flooding. There were a number of physical factors causing the Boscastle floods. The village suffered from heavy rainfall. Over 2 hours‚ 0.05mm of rainfall fell per minute. In total‚ over 3 million tonnes of water was added to the small drainage basin
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Does river engineering have the potential to make floods worse? This essay will involve explaining whether or not different types of hard and soft engineering make floods worse. I will go through each type of engineering and explain their advantages and disadvantages to see if they are each capable of making a flood worse or not. Levees Levees are an example of hard engineering and are basically just big piles of either concrete‚ rocks or soil that have been piled up to increase the height of
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Bangladesh Floods – Case Study By Nikita Pankhania Background Information: Bangladesh is a MEDC and one the world’s poorest and most densely populated countries. It is located in South Asia‚ bordered by India in the north‚ the Bay of Bengal in the east and west‚ while Myanmar surrounds it to the south. Bangladesh is the eighth most populous country in the world. Bangladesh is also located on the confluences of the river Ganges and Brahmaputra these are two very large rivers which
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providing resources during and before a natural disaster‚ the public health department informs the local population. This paper will analyze flooding as a public health emergency‚ how public health departments plan‚ prepare‚ and help recover from a flood; the paper will also address Laramie County’s emergency preparedness‚ and analyze how to create an emergency kit‚ create a family disaster plan‚ and stay informed during an emergency or disaster. Flooding is a public health emergency due to several
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WATER RESOURCES What are water resources? Water resources are sources of water that are useful or potentially useful to humans. It is important because it is needed for life to exist. Many uses of water include agricultural‚ industrial‚ household‚ recreational and environmental activities. Virtually all of these human uses require fresh water. Only 2.7% of water on the Earth is fresh water‚ and over two thirds of this is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps‚ leaving only
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LEDC: Bangladesh Between July-September 1998‚ Bangladesh suffered one of its worse ever floods. Despite flooding being common in this country‚ the floods of 1998 were particularly severe resulting in over 1000 deaths and 30 million people being made homeless POSITIVE EFFECTS OF FLOODING It is important to remember that whilst flooding has serious impacts on human life in Bangladesh it is also instrumental in the wellbeing of Bangladesh’s economy and the survival of its people. So what are these
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agricultural sector in the South-West coastal region of Bangladesh. Floods Flood affects agricultural production considerably. Prolonged floods would tend to delay Aman plantation‚ resulting in significant loss of potential Aman production. The flood in1988 caused reduction of agricultural production by some 45 percent. In 1998‚ Aman production potential of some 2 to 2.3 Mha could not be realized. Figure: Crop damage (MT) due to historical flood Source: Overview of Climate Change Impacts in Bangladesh:
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SEA LEVEL RISE: San Francisco Bay Area MUD 692 l Kevin Kellogg l FALL 2012 l Utkarsh Kumar The Theory: Coastal cities need preservation and restoration‚ not development to tackle the issues of Sea Level Rise. “We basically have three choices: mitigation‚ adaptation‚ and suffering‚” said John Holdren‚ the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an energy and climate expert at Harvard. “We’re going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is
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