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… The objectives of this study is to establish a comprehensive understanding of the various principles of emergency management by describing, explaining, and analysing the following: what emergencies and disasters are; the impact of emergencies and emergency management; emergency prevention; the prepared community command control; the human factor; and emergency laws and other pertinent legal processes.... disasters – disasters are “a condition or situation of significant destruction, disruption and/or distress to a community” (Emergency Management Australia (2004, p....
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Research Paper
Local authorities are more aware of the specific needs of their people, the types of disasters linked to relevant regional potential threats.... The suggestion in this paper is that local governments are in a better position to prepare for regional disasters and should become prepared in relationship with the foreseeable problems that might affect their local areas.... Even though the exact timing of a disaster is not usually predictable, most disasters can be predicted as a probability....
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Essay
Natural Disaster - General Literature Natural disasters are likely to cause various effects on the countries and areas affected.... Various studies have established the different economic impact of these disasters, mostly in terms of their short-term and their long-term effects (Albala-Bertrand, 1993).... Short term impact mostly register in terms of the direct impact of these disasters in the infrastructure, loss of life, loss of livelihood, loss of capital stock and loss of natural resources (Ma, 2011)....
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Literature review
(Shi & Smith 2003) This case study illustrates various occurrences of tsunamis like the Flores tsunami which was generated by 1992 Indonesian earthquake, the 1998 Papa new Guinea tsunami and the Holocene Stroregga Tsunami caused by a catastrophic sub-marine landslide of Storegga, Norway at circa.... hellip; Natural, environmental hazards include earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunami and others.... The ocean has large volumes of water and underneath is the earth mass consisting of the crust....
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Term Paper
Introduction: what are the different business opportunities after and before a natural "disasters" a.... disasters type 1 1.... disasters type 2 1.... disasters type 1: tornado, hurricane, tsunami – Business Opportunities a.... Soil fertility, the nutriments, that is why we find lots of people surrounding volcanic areas 2.... how to make a disaster into an opportunity c.... how the can influence our world and create a better place Introduction: Natural resources seem to be the epicenter of multiple problems....
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Essay
nbsp;An earthquake is literally defined as "a sudden and sometimes catastrophic movement of a part of the Earth's surface.... The strength and damage caused by an earthquake can vary dramatically, depending on the strength of the earthquake.... In fact, most of the larger earthquakes are then followed by smaller ones – these are otherwise known as foreshocks or aftershocks; foreshocks being smaller earthquakes which precede the larger earthquake, and aftershocks being those which precede it....
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Article
Mapping Vulnerability, disasters, Development and People, edited by Greg Bankoff, Georg Frerks, and Dorothea Hilhorst, published by Earthscan, UK and USA, ISBN: 978-1-85383-964-1 paperback, ISBN: 978-1-85383-963-4 hardback, available at all leading bookshops, or at www.... What are natural disasters?... Are we supposed to resign ourselves to disasters simply because they are ‘acts of God'?... It is even more daunting when the vulnerability is seen in the backdrop of disasters, and linked with politics and cultures, the resourceful rich and the superstitious downtrodden, giving it a multidimensional effect....
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Literature review
This paper ''Earth and Space Sciences '' tells that Several natural phenomena, including eruptions from volcanoes, volcanic tsunamis, flood and earthquakes affect the world today.... volcanic eruptions are a natural phenomenon which can potentially cause great destruction in the area they occur.... Despite volcanic eruptions being less frequent in comparison with other natural wonders, their potential effect is extreme devastation to a level of even causing the extinction of organisms....
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Case Study