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Natural Disaster Aftermath and Transporting Clean Water to Those in Need

dependent they are on easy access to clean water until something prevents that access. The Impact of Natural Disasters Informati...

Emergency Preparedness and Governmental Crisis Protection

state, local and personal levels for survival during, and recovery after, a hurricane has passed through an area. On the federal l...

Disaster Recovery Planning

A survey conducted in 1995 by ICR Survey Research Group regarding vulnerability of computers found that sixty six percent of respo...

Global Community Assistance and the US

who have lost home and family to a natural disaster, the Red Cross provides relief and hope. The American Red Cross is...

Vulnerable Population/Frail Elders

complex situations. One of the main problems will be elderly people and providing transport to shelter. However, once at an Amer...

Comparison and Contrasting Essay on California and Georgia

attacked poor drainage and low-lying areas particularly in or around Savannah, the Ocmulgee River, and the Toccoa Falls regions, w...

Aspects of Stress

3). It is when stress exceeds the individuals ability to cope that it becomes destructive. These destructive effects can be modera...

Article Analysis Related to Environmental Psychology

she was pushing mud off the porch and wiping furniture. More volunteers followed helping all the people who lived on that street. ...

Oil Prices

The writer looks at the different events or influences that could result in oil prices increasing. Events such as war, natural di...

Natural Disasters and Responsibilities of Employers to Employees

period that passed from the time the first warnings of Hurricane Katrina were sounded, and the actual landfall of the storm. It se...

Funding for Disaster Relief and the Federal Government's Role

has precedence over the states. In practice, it is cooperative federalism that has largely held sway. In Federalist 32, Alexande...

Prevention or Minimization of Natural Disasters and Terrorism

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...

Cause and Effect Used to Justify More Helicopter Services to a Pacific Island Prone to Natural Disasters

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...

The Horrors and Hope of Hurricane Katrina

to those impacts than are others. The normative, i.e. not so unique, stressors of Hurricane Katrina are characterized best ...

An Exploration of Tsunamis

caused by seismic activity, by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions (Regulatory Intelligence Data, 1998). Tsunamis can also be caus...

Delayed Government Response Times for Natural Disasters: A Proposed Solution

to this devastated area were, at least at first, characterized more appropriately as a series of errors and delays than as an effi...

Natural Disasters

atmosphere and at the same time, it releases drier and cooler air into the atmosphere (The American National Red Cross, 2001). The...

China’s Involvement with Tibet

hierarchies strengthened (Tibet - Its Ownership and Human Rights Situation, 2003). But it became clear that China was the predomi...

American Foreign Policy with China

improve conditions relative to human rights and to divert attention away from nuclear proliferation to other, more constructive pu...

Quantitative Survey 'Corporate support in the aftermath of a natural disaster: effects on employee strains' Review

briefest of abstracts is included with the article. The abstract gives only a small bit of information and makes no comment on th...

At Risk Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability, and Disasters by Piers Blaikie

In five pages this report considers a disaster's aftermath and people's vulnerability as represented in this 1996 theoretical text...

A Fictitious Account of a Five Day Natural Disaster

though several bombs had exploded. The streets were virtually impassable with debris and broken glass and there were overturned c...

Disasters

quake it was estimated that at least 400 people had died. The conditions were relatively dire as almost freezing temperatures at n...

The Importance of Statistics to the Insurance Industry

or the beneficiary, will receive a payment. For some policies, such as life insurance policies, this is a fixed amount, for other ...

National Statistics And Local Decisions

say. More than a decade ago, Professor Taflinger (1996) recommended people ask specific questions before simply accepting the data...

Analyzing a Statistical Information Article

that it changed in relationship to the attractiveness of the presenter (Utton, 2002). In the study, as many as three quarters of t...

Conservation v. Preservation in Ecosystem Maintenance

had more of an anthropomophic approach to them than a strictly preservationist approach. Thus enters the argument ecologists have...

France's Natural Resources

an adequate and increasing budget allocated to environmental issues....

Kentucky Water Resources, Energy, and Minerals

In seventeen pages this paper examines Kentucky's natural resources. Eleven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Forms of Child Abuse 2

In five pages various types of child abuse are discussed in terms of statistics, situational assessment, and suggested improvement...