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    so harmful but on a higher level project they can be deadly. In 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

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    Disaster Management

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    Introduction Various disasters like earthquake‚ landslides‚ volcanic eruptions‚ fires‚ flood and cyclones are natural hazards that kill thousands of people and destroy billions of dollars of habitat and property each year. The rapid growth of the world’s population and its increased concentration often in hazardous environment has escalated both the frequency and severity of natural disasters. With the tropical climate and unstable land forms‚ coupled with deforestation‚ unplanned growth proliferation

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    Nuclear disaster

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    Nuclear disasters From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia The list of the worst disasters at nuclear power plants and other facilities all over the world is presented below: During the 2011 Fukushima nuclear emergency in Japan‚ three nuclear reactors were damaged by explosions. Following an earthquake‚ tsunami‚ and failure of cooling systems at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan on March 11‚ 2011‚ a nuclear emergency was declared. This was the first time a nuclear emergency had

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    Disaster management can be defined as the organization and management of resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies‚ in particular preparedness‚ response and recovery in order to lessen the impact of disasters. The need to address disaster management Disasters are defined as a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society. They involve widespread human‚ material‚ economic or environmental impacts‚ which exceed the ability of

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    hillsborough disaster The Hillsborough disaster was an incident that occurred on 15 April 1989 at the Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield‚ England‚ during the FA cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest soccer clubs. The crush resulted in the deaths of 96 people and injuries to 766 others. The incident has since been blamed primarily on the police. The incident remains the worst stadium-related disaster in British history and one of the world’s worst soccer disasters. soccer clubs

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    DISASTER PREPAREDNESS DURING TYPHOONS Typhoon is a word composed only of seven letters and two syllables yet it attracts attention when heard from news or read from a newspaper article. It creates worries and uneasiness to the receiver’s mind. There are a number of definitions of what typhoon is. According to the website Merriam-Webster.com (2013)‚” Typhoon is a hurricane occurring especially in the region of the Philippines or China Sea.” Typhoon is the term for a natural phenomenon that can

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    A natural disaster can occurs due to our carelessness. Global Warming is one of the natural disasters that we are facing today. Its effect is due to our carbon emissions (greenhouse gases) from industries. These greenhouse gases are trapped in the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases trapped heat from the sun radiation as well as from the earth. Atmosphere protects the earth to maintain a constant temperature by trapping the heat from the sun. However‚ due to the greenhouse effects‚ it traps heat more than

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    Disaster Management

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    1.0 INTRODUCTION Disasters are as old as human history. However‚ whether an event qualifies as a disaster or not has often depended upon who is doing the definition. Individuals‚ governments and humanitarian agencies have attempted to define disaster in various ways depending on their roles‚ biases‚ interests and capabilities. The United Nations Development Programme has defined disaster as an occurrence of a sudden or major misfortune which disrupts the basic fabric and normal functioning of a

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    Disaster Strikes Hindenburg No More The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday‚ May 6‚ 1937‚ as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed. The source of how the fire started is till today being debated. The occupancy of the aircraft was 36 passengers and an additional 61 crew members . The fatalities of this disaster was totaled at 36 people‚ which included 13 passengers and 23 crewmen. This unpredictable tragedy sparked fear in people and in turn ending

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    The April 1986 disaster at the Chernobyla nuclear power plant in Ukraine was the product of a flawed Soviet reactor design coupled with serious mistakes made by the plant operatorsb.  It was a direct consequence of Cold War isolation and the resulting lack of any safety culture. The accident destroyed the Chernobyl 4 reactor‚ killing 30 operators and firemen within three months and several further deaths later. One person was killed immediately and a second died in hospital soon after as a result

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