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Essays 211 - 240
The American Red Cross, after an extensive peer review of the program, which was conducted in 2006, adopted Veenemas curriculum as...
mean they are not dangerous. Earthquakes, which are natural occurrences, kill hundreds if not thousands of people and ruin homes,...
certain cultural movements have made it such that the nature of risk management and disaster prevention in societies is now given ...
had its epicentre off Sunmatas west coast, between Simeulue and mainland Indonesia, 30 km below sea level and had a magnitude 9.3 ...
well, which was located 41 miles from the Louisiana coast (Hoffman and Jennings, 2010). The disaster struck on 20 April 2010 durin...
building, there were 200 children killed as a result ("Pakistan puts quake toll at 18,000," 2005). One hospital collapsed as well ...
A decision support system (DSS) is software that is capable of using complex analytical models that can help support the decision ...
period that passed from the time the first warnings of Hurricane Katrina were sounded, and the actual landfall of the storm. It se...
to this devastated area were, at least at first, characterized more appropriately as a series of errors and delays than as an effi...
take out the trash ("Memo to Me," 2007). Of course, many computers are equipped with remainder features that exist on software suc...
days, whereas for a flood or tsunami their may not be a warning at all. The immediate effects of a disaster can be mixed. If there...
and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the South Pacific Division of the US Army Corps of E...
prescriptive because the focus is "on how decisions ought to be made" (Lahti, 2003). There are a number of assumptions underlying ...
bad occurs, but they hardly remember the times when imminent danger was in the air. Even before 911, the government would plan for...
reports" (Subramanian, 2006, p. 1). It now includes things like the Internet, teleconferencing and other high tech communication m...
p. 1). It now includes things like the Internet, teleconferencing and other high tech communication methods (Subramanian, 2006). ...
to those impacts than are others. The normative, i.e. not so unique, stressors of Hurricane Katrina are characterized best ...
throughout the first two-thirds of the twentieth century reflects a cyclical recoil of increased famine deaths rather than what on...
by the government for UCIL where 50.9% of the remained in the ownership of Union Carbide Corporation (USA). This indicated the lev...
caused by seismic activity, by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions (Regulatory Intelligence Data, 1998). Tsunamis can also be caus...
did X, Y would not have happened." Of course, they cannot know this for sure. At the same time, throwing up ones hands and claimin...
Columbia disaster, it was determined that a multitude of the problem which had been uncovered during the investigation which took ...
efforts of the international community" (Helton 192). The following examination of UN leadership looks specifically at its efforts...
in General Its a given that disasters are unpredictable; if we could predict them accurately they would be far less damaging, be...
she was in the building in 1993 when another attack took place; and despite the fact that the building actually rocked from the fo...
For example, right after the CAIB issued its report, Sean OKeefe, the NASA administrator at the time, publically accepted all reco...
This 3-page paper, based on organizational structures during a crisis situation, discusses how Cullman Electric can prepare for di...
In five pages disaster and the need for grief counseling afterwards are discussed with a consideration of the Oklahoma City bombin...
complex situations. One of the main problems will be elderly people and providing transport to shelter. However, once at an Amer...
II. Five Elements of Disaster Recovery Planning IIa. Preparedness and Training In general, a great deal of planning is directe...