Essays on Disasters

In countries around the world, children are suffering and dying from malnutrition, disease, and poverty secondary to drought or flooding. Changes in climate create many risks to the lives of children and their families as they struggle to survive in areas where food is difficult to grow and workers are poorly paid. Due to the increase in temperature and extreme weather conditions brought on by climate change, many communities are expected to suffer scarcity of clean water with the result of perilous diseases and health complications. Disasters and humanitarian crises may bring long-term displacements and disruption to educational, health, ...

Business Resilience/Continuity

Business resilience is defined as the ability shown by a business organization to act quickly to adapt to a disruption or disaster that may affect the business negatively. This ability to fight any disaster is shown while business continues to maintain its operations instead of dissolving. Therefore, business resilience safeguards the assets, workers as well as the brand equity. Furthermore, business resilience offers post-disaster methods that mitigate the downtime that can prove costly to business. Through business resilience, business vulnerabilities are shown up thus maintaining the daily business activities against the unforeseen breaches (Cerullo and Michael 71). Business resilience ...

Abstract

Hurricane Katrina is considered the largest national disaster in the United States. It led to the death of around 1,800 people and other tens of thousands were left homeless. It came four years after 9/11 and the government had been proactive in creating response plans for such disasters. Katrina led to a number of national crises that were primarily caused by two reasons. One, the hurricane Katrina itself and two, the collapse of the levees that had been built to protect the city. Aside from this, there was a problem in the management of the crisis. The local, ...

Over a long time, there have been witnessed various disasters that occur beyond human control. The natural disaster tends to take place any time of the year regardless of whether tourism is at its peak or not (Ritchie et al. 15). Therefore, it happens that at times the natural disasters become one of the most challenging situations people encounter at diverse economic regimes. In most countries, a natural disaster has led to the loss of lives of many people including the tourists. Moreover, it is evident that natural disaster does not choose the place to occur, and hence it ...

Climate change poses many risks to the lives of children. Because of the increase in temperature and extreme weather conditions brought by climate change, many communities are expected to suffer from food and water scarcity and perilous diseases and health complications. More disasters and humanitarian crises would bring long-term displacements and disruption to educational and economic activities (UNICEF, p.8). Given this situation, the future of children at the worldwide scale remains under peril. Governments and other agencies concerned on the welfare of children must do something to address this worsening situation, or the children will pay the price. Climate ...

Healthcare centers and facilities play a significant role in disaster and emergency preparedness efforts for all types of events such as natural, man-made events, terrorist attacks and pandemic outbreaks. Healthcare facilities are required to have emergency and disaster operations plan which apparently gives an outline of how the hospital is prepared to respond and recover from all types of hazards. The preparation process requires the healthcare facility to include a number of six critical components including communications, resources and assets, safety and security, staff responsibilities, utilities and clinical and support activities (Wee 241). The approach of being prepared to ...

Pro-Care Clinic is a general outpatient clinic facility that caters for basic health needs and mostly deals with outpatient issues (The Green Book). However, once in a while, the facility is required to handle serious issues that may require minor surgeries, child deliveries, or serious accidents. In such cases, the clinic admits the patients in its ward that accommodates 5 patients. Most of these cases are managed first before referring the patients to other equipped hospitals. The clinic has been known to handle these cases since there are no close hospitals in the neighborhood. The clinic has an administrator, ...

All the nations of the earth both developed and developing countries has to deal and cope with the demands of the climate change. China is, therefore, not an exception. China has to deal with a wide range of climates from the tropics and deserts. Climate can be viewed in three dimensions, in that climate constraints economy and society, and the climate is a hazard and can bring about other disasters and hazards. In recent research, the Chinese culture has not yet developed as fast as other nations of the world though some argue that China had the start in ...

Affiliated Institution

Introduction The concept of Homeland Security was precipitated by the terrorist attacks of 9/11 (Shawn 2013). According to the quadrennial homeland security review (2014), the goal of homeland security department and its partners is to build a safe, secure, and resilient nation. This goal is continuously threatened by the evolving nature of terrorism and natural disastrous among other risk factors. In order to mitigate the effects of the risks and threats to the safety, security, and resilience of the nation, the (Department of Homeland Security) DHS developed the five missions to help the department and its partners achieve its ...

Introduction

The desire to conform to the norms is what makes the foundation of a civilized society. Social order, for instance, is a desired attribute that is founded on established written and unwritten rules that are being observed by most people within a society. Deviation from these established rules is considered as undesirable and people who deviate are considered as having abnormal qualities or malfunctioning (Merton, 2002, p. 672). There are instances, however, wherein some people are observed to deviate from the standard pattern of human behavior. This deviation has captured the interest of many social scientists and have been ...

Every region around the globe has different exposure factors that relate to the occurrence of various kinds of disasters, and that needs intervention strategies when they happen. Managing of resources and individuals during emergency periods can present multiple challenges that require the relevant people to improvise and develop new strategies to deal with the arising problem. Decision-making is one of the key components of these operations as the decisions are essential in providing solutions to the outstanding problems (ANA, 2008). It is important to review some of the ethical practices that can enable different people to attain the best ...

DISASTER PLAN

Introduction Disaster preparedness in nursing is important due to the environment that the clinical nurses face on a day to day basis. Nurses play a vital role in communication, coordination and handling health care activities. There are numerous external and internal disasters that nurses can face in their career. The disasters might require proper preparation and strategic planning. Nurses are important in disaster preparedness and readiness in the society.

Analysis

The disaster plan begins from the point of evaluating the possible threats that are likely to occur within a particular geographical region or business. The evaluation is important in creating ...

Tourism is an economic activity that is affected by many other factors in the industry. However, there are many factors that adversely affect the economic activity positively or negatively. This paper explains the impacts that natural disasters might have in tourism as an economic activity. Natural disasters can sometimes become a great barrier to tourism. Tourism is often described as a temporary visit to a new place especially a region or a country (Becken, & Ren, 2012). This movement to a new place can sometimes be compromised with unfavorable natural disasters. A natural disaster, on the other hand, is described ...

There are several laws that aimed at protecting human health and environment. The government and private parties are allowed to enforce the federal environmental laws. The government has the resources and tools required to enforce environmental laws and compels compliance with the environmental regulations and laws. Criminal and civil environmental enforcement are streamlined towards protection of environment and health. The criminal environmental enforcement seeks to punish the actions that the society view as harmful to the environment and health of people. The civil, environmental enforcement is streamlined towards individual parties who should be compensated for the harm caused by ...

during Times of Uncertainty during Times of Uncertainty

Introduction:

Times of uncertainty lead the public to seek both leadership and answers. They need answers, and ways to organize around issues of social significance which have created doubt, and indecision. In essence, they need help understanding the issue at hand and being offered an acceptable frame of reference when they, themselves, do not have the experience to come up with constructive solutions. Often this leadership comes out of the academic community. As such, the purpose of the current essay is to determine in what ways academics can contribute on issues of ...

Abstract

Emergency Planning as a Profession In this paper, I will bring forward arguments that emergency planning and emergency management are progressively being recognized as a profession in most parts of the world. Emergencies are usually linked to natural disasters or events caused by humans. In these cases, a need arises to mobilize the population for humanitarian action or self-defense against natural disasters like floods, earthquakes, fires, or human conflict, such as military attack or terrorist threat. The importance of emergency planning is also reflected in the International Humanitarian Law, for instance, in the Geneva Conventions on Protecting the Vulnerable ...

Many disasters have occurred in many parts of the world due to both deliberate or unintended human error and actions. Below are some of the most shocking incidents that led to mortalities.

London’s Killer Fog

The London Killer Fog of 1952 has always been judged to be based on the natural adverse weather conditions. Being that this incident happened during the winter period, many people re said to have thought that it was a weather-related incident. It was marred by cold weather and as usual; many people always resort to making ire to warn themselves. This incident has been chosen as one ...

In this paper, we will explore the psychological impacts of two human-made disasters. One that happened during the First World War, and the other one is a recent terrorist attack in Paris, in 2015. The Lusitania Disaster was an attack from the German army to a British ship liner coming from New York to Liverpool, UK. The terrorist attack in Paris however was not a war attack, so people were not expecting anything as such. However, it can be argued that we are on a war today, that begun by several attacks of radical Islamic groups against the West. ...

I think discarding something as uninteresting or not useful means hindering yourself in terms of learning new things; I have my reservations about documentaries that try to engage the viewer by playing cards like human vanity and ego, disasters and grand statements, such as ‘the most impenetrable fortress’; but I still think that everywhere we look we can find useful knowledge. As the name suggests, the documentary is about the civilization of ancient Egypt and their engineering accomplishments that became landmarks in ancient architecture and significantly contributed to ancient Egypt’s grandeur image as an empire. Historians featured in ...

Organizations serving the public should have a well-defined disaster management plan, which ensures potential disasters are identified and countered before they happen. Structuring the emergency services effectively ensures that the consequences of disasters are duly minimized, and people who would be planning to attack a given facility draws back. According to Kim (2014), organizations such as hospitals should ensure that collaboration of all departments should be highly acknowledged since emergency control department cannot singularly handle disasters in the entire hospital without reinforcement from other departments. It is, therefore, important that every stakeholder or employee in the hospital be taken ...

Introduction

The management of the health, risks, and the occupational hazards form a crucial component of the organizational operations depending on the nature of the business. Every organization has systems to minimize the rates of adverse events and disasters within the company premises. It is the obligation of the human resources management to ensure that the systems are in place to observe precautions and hence prevent disastrous events which could cause injuries or lead to the loss of human lives. The activities and the functions of any organizations determine the precautionary measures employed to eradicate or minimize the probability of ...

Q1 Based on the best quote, “Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot Give me a caring idiot, give me a sensitive idiot, just don’t give me the same idiot” by the president of the Jefferson Parish, Aaron Broussard and the words from James Lee Wit that states “we promised to make an agency that could deliver on the political promises” (Cooper & Block, 2006). This suggests that FEMA was expected to provide the best services that were related to homeland security, for instance dealing with disaster, Hurricane Katrina ...

Report To Respond To DHS Request for Information

Report To Respond To DHS Request for Information It is worth mentioning that the Department of Homeland Security ensures that the nation is safe from the danger of attacks, especially external threats from terrorists and other attacks that may make Americans feel insecure. Apart from that, homeland security ensures that in the case of an attack on Americans, the impact does not escalate. Hence, it is an all-around entity that was set up to safeguard the security interests of all Americans regardless of which part of the country one resides. Also, both natural disasters and human-made disasters are taken ...

Introduction

A community health assessment is a vital practice that determines the various aspects that either promotes or deter sustainable health practices. As such, it is essential to analyze the community for the people's needs, the available resources that could be used in providing a solution, the assets in the community as well as the strengths that the particular community exhibits and could be used in facilitating the problem-solving process. In this respect, the paper shows an analysis of Riverside County, California for these elements that could help identify and solve the health issues that affect the county.

Resources in Riverside County

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Disaster recovery management

Introduction A disaster is an unwanted/unexpected havoc that occurs and causes detrimental effects. The effects might cause harm to individuals and lead to the destruction of property. Examples of disasters include fire, floods, and volcanic eruptions (Hermansson, 2015). Disaster recovery management is the act of controlling the emergence of disasters through the institution of stringent measures that aim at curbing chances of occurrence of accidents.

The essential task, ongoing evaluation, and major policies and procedural changes

As a business continuity lead manager, the fundamental task would be to ensure that the right personnel is in the right areas of work so as to maximize the business continuity performance. Also, the ...

Fostering Successful Emergency Planning

Fostering a successful emergency plan ensures that the plan focuses on intensive training and exercises. In doing so, the plan reinforces emergency preparedness for a number of potential emergencies. The exercises that emergency planners can create to test their plans include trial or testing through prototypes and operations, rehearsing the plan and explaining the plan to others and memorizing it (‎Perry, 2016). The best way to access emergencies is through trials. I believe this is true because when accessing emergency systems using trial, one bases the trial on socialist systems. The use of socialist systems in responding to emergencies ...

The Map of Haiti and others countries in the Caribbean

Haiti Acknowledgement This Cholera Proposal would not be having been possible without the support of “the Hinckley Institute at the University of Utah who gives me opportunity to serve the world and to see the good in the world. I am grateful to those who provided guidance and support during my internship at Medical Care Development International from ministry of health in Haiti (MSPP) I’m thankful my best Dr. Benavente Louis for his valuable contributions to this proposal. I’m thankful to Dr. Pablo Paolo and for Dr Jeff Wendell their leadership support of my research for this ...

Business continuity Planning

Having a business continuity plan is a very important requirement for businesses. A business continuity plan allows a business to be able to deal with large-scale incidences and disaster and allows the business to be able to resume normal operations as soon as possible.

Business impact analysis

The first task the business continuity manager needs to carry out is a business impact analysis. Any business will have risks. The primary role of a business impact analysis is to figure out the impact of risks on the business (Hiles, 2011). Different risks are classified differently. There are critical risks that cannot be allowed ...

During the first 2 centuries C.E., there was a period of peace and prosperity, called Pax Romana , which remained in history as one of the happiest and prosperous periods in the entire human history. However, the achievements of the 3 emperors of the Flavian dynasty, Vespasian, and his sons, Titus and Domitian, laid the foundations for Pax Romana because it represented a period of able administration and important political, social, military and educational changes which brought prosperity in the empire. The succession of the first of these emperors, Nerva, put an end to the Flavian dynasty and in particular, ...

Development of long-term recovery plan following a disaster is an essential and complicated process. Communities affected by a disaster need to measure its impact before formulating a plan. The preparation can last for several months since it needs enormous resources. Hurricane Katrina remains the most destructive natural disaster in United States' history. It affected several areas in the country (Pratt, 2016). Communities in New Orleans city were the most affected. The city is located along Mississippi River. Hurricanes and flooding are major sources of disasters. New Orleans has been affected by other hazards such as drinking water pollution and ...

Introduction

If any organisation were to succeed in achieving its objectives and targets, it is at the mercy of the strategies that it develops for itself. A lack of strategy will tell on the manner the organisation works. Hence, the team employed to this effect should be efficient and have the required knowledge for the same. Plans should match what the company envisions for itself in the light of its finances and operations. Such plans work in the long run. The more changes occur in them, the more difficult it is for them to move ahead. Realistic yardsticks can be ...

Oil Prices Fluctuating In the Middle East

Introduction Oil being a commodity is subject to high levels of fluctuations as opposed to the stable investments like bonds and stocks. In particular, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) plays a significant role in influencing the prices of oil across the globe. As a result, OPEC controls around 40 percent of the global supply of oil by setting the production levels that caters for the world demand and it can determine the prices of gas and oil by reducing or raising the levels of production. At a particular point in time, OPEC vowed to maintain the prices above $ ...

Abstract

Disaster analysis is essential in the management of disasters. It assists in the identification of gaps in the management cycle within a given region. Management of disasters occurs in four cycles including planning or preparedness, response, recovery, as well as mitigation. Planning is an essential tool in all the phases of the cycle. The primary aim of disaster response is to offer immediate aid to improve health, sustain life, as well as assist in the improvement of the morale of the affected population. Recovery phase aims at restoring the infrastructure as well as the operations of the community services ...

Chapter 1: Introduction to Emergency Management

Emergency management is defined as discipline or profession that applies technology, planning, and management in dealing with extreme issues, and events affecting and even killing a large number of people. These extreme catastrophic events lead to excessive and extensive property damage hence disrupting community life leading to negative social impacts. There are fundamental theories of disasters that help in explaining the origin catastrophic events. They include acts of fate, acts of nature, effects of nature and society and social constructions. An integrated system that is well-defined and clearly differentiated in structure helps in coordinating the emergency management in the ...

Abstract

The Hurricane Katrina is considered the most devastating storm in the United States due to its magnitude of destruction and the casualties involved. Though the weather forecasters had predicted about the storm, the American government had not put any measures to deal with the catastrophe. As a result, the Gulf Coast States that was hit hardest by Katrina lost properties worth billions as well as thousands of lives. The parties involved in the rescue process included the Army Corps, Coast Guards, as well as FEMA. The Katrina hurricane recorded the government inefficiency in two levels. The first one is ...

For this paper we have re-defined the concept of disaster and it elements in XXI century. Based on the study of Gary Kreps “Disaster as systemic event and social catalyst: A clarification of subject matter” we were able not only to get acquainted with new concept of disaster from sociological perspective, but also apply this knowledge into practice on cases of Chornobyl nuclear accident and Mexico City Earthquake. Careful analysis of those two events resulted in few major outputs, namely: Disasters are special type of social phenomena. Those are dramatic historical events that involve social catalysts. They happen suddenly ...

Introduction

Various environmental factors affect the everyday business operations of managers. Both internal and external environmental factors influence business managers. The internal environmental factors include the value system and organizational culture that the business organization can control to a significant extent. On the other hand, the external factors influencing business include marketing forces and a variety of macro-environmental factors. The macro-environmental factors are economical, social, political and technological factors. In brief, the manager can neither predict nor control the external factors. However, business success depends on effectively managing both the internal and external business environments.

Thesis statement

Effective management of business operations ...

Assignment 1

PART ONE Consequence management is the ability of the government to respond to and recover from a devastating terrorist attack or natural disaster. Response and recovery includes saving lives and diminishing property damage. The National Response Framework (“NRF”) sets forth America’s response doctrine, responsibilities and structures. The NRF provides a detailed guide as to how to respond to disasters, either natural, industrial, biological or civil unrest and terrorist attacks. Describing the manner in which communities are to respond to disasters, it sets forth the way in which a coordinated response can and should occur between first responders, decision ...

Essay #2

Humanities 4501: 9/11 Literature and Film Introduction There are different portrayals of Mohamed Atta, one of the terrorists who participated in the 9/11 attacks, in the story “The Last Days of Muhammad Atta,” written by Martin Amis, and the film The Hamburg Cell, directed by Antonia Bird. This paper examines both the story and the film and provides a comprehensive comparison of their portrayals of Mohamed Atta. It is clear that there are significant differences and similarities between how the story and the film portray Atta. In particular, this paper compares how the two narratives portray Atta’s feelings ...

British Petroleum is a multinational corporation that was founded in 1908. It initially had its single wells in the remote parts of Persia. The company slowly grew and within eight years it became one of the largest businesses in the world. It has been broadly divided into three main subsections that include oil exploration and production; gas, power, renewables and oil refining; and marketing section. All these departments work together to ensure that the company achieves its objectives. Since 1995, the company has been in the capable hands of John Browne, who has been its CEO until his untimely ...

Epistemology is the science of Knowledge. It deals with how our mind perceives knowledge. The nature of various hypotheses, concepts, theories which give us the knowledge of a particular field comes under the purview of Epistemology. It checks the validity of our senses, our reasoning and our logic. Epistemology validates the methods used in the study. It enables one to distinguish truth from falsehood. The studies we make about our environment can be useful to us because of Epistemology (Joseph, 2006). Disasters include the ones caused by nature, such as typhoons, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, floods, etc. and those caused ...

Simulation in Nursing Education

The concept of simulation in healthcare education has been since the time of world II. The basic concepts of simulation in associate’s or bachelor’s nursing program comprised of CPR manikins, role playing, static manikins, and conventional techniques based on the utilization of various taught concepts were used as a teaching modality since over 5 decades (Norman J. 2012). The concept of high-fidelity education has been in place for over 2 decades but it is new and unique in the nursing education. The process involves the use of simulation with the help of high-end computer technology including simulation ...

CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE ROLE OF CRISIS IN INDUCING POLICY CHANGE

Introduction Most nations make policies after they enter serious crisis. There is a general notion that a critical problem requires a critical solution. Thus, nations that came under Nazi or Japanese attack in the eve of the Second World War declared a state of emergency and made sweeping changes to their national policies. These changes had far-reaching impacts on the functioning of the arms of governments and the entire nation had to suspend various activities to implement the policies in response to the crises. However, after World War II, significant events have been considered as turning points in national ...

Natural disasters affect a large of people around the worked and this is rising because of climate change and the rising concentration of people inhabiting the areas that are more exposed to natural disasters. These natural disasters reduce the economic growth and a significant impact on poverty and social welfare, which affects the developing countries, and their most vulnerable populations. While natural disasters cannot be prevented, actions can be taken to reduce their human and economic costs. This paper looks at a large-scale natural disaster such as the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004, the effect it had on the ...

RESPONSE

Disasters are inevitable in a natural world that is inhabited by not only human life but other organisms too. There are several things that can occur in a world full of interaction. However, despite the notion of knowing that something could go wrong, whether it’s a human caused adversity or a natural crisis there have been measures taken to enhance the quality of life for those who are experiencing disasters. Part of disaster management has a lot to do with recognizing the needs of those who are afflicted by misfortune. According to humanistic psychology, Maslow considered the fact ...

Introduction

Emergency management has a place in the history of not only the US but its environs as well. The period between 1900 and 2010 has seen disasters that have ranged from earthquakes, drought, and hurricanes just to mention a few of the natural disasters that have marred the country. There are those disasters that have faced the country only that this time, they were deemed to be artificial in the sense that human factors had a hand in them. These include oil spills, terrorism, and human arsonists. It is critical to note that in the earlier times when disasters ...

An issue that has been a main concern in politics has been climate change and of course global warming. Everyone wants to know if the activities of humans are changing the climate. They also want to know if it is possible they will encounter more serious disasters. However, it is difficult to provide answers as their concerns are quite challenging to those who are responsible for solving them. But it is important for all those that have concerns to understand that many new things are happening that were not predicted in the early 20th century. This is why I ...

The level of community preparedness in regards to the management of disasters is an important step in making sure that such a population is protected from possible negative effects that may result in the process. Floods have been established to the commonest natural disasters in the United States and as such, there is the need for having in place measures that will ensure that the condition is properly addressed. Flooding occurs when water overflows to dry land and may happen up to only a few inches high or completely cover a particular locality (Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2016). This ...

 The Differences between Hazards, Emergencies, and Disasters

Emergency management can be described as the process through which societies act in an attempt to lessen the susceptibility to hazards and management of disasters. Usually, its aim is not to eliminate the threats, but to reduce their impact. Through the creation of the plans to reduce the effect of these disasters, the risks of damaging assets and losing revenue are reduced among others. However, most people find it challenging to differentiate between emergency, disaster, and hazards in addition to stating the required steps involved in analyzing the three perils. Disaster is a term that is used to describe ...

The 2015 Paris attacks inflicted tremendous losses upon the French hospitality market, resulting in the lowest level of customer turnover for some hotels over the last twenty five years. The Paris and Nice attacks caused economic damage, equivalent to damage caused by the 2008 Great Recession (Alderman, 2016). On a global scale, the global tourism industry demonstrated 3 percent growth prior to the 2015 Paris attacks (LaGrave, 2016). Moreover, the global tourism industry employed 7.2 million people more in 2015 alone, providing income for about 284 million people all over the world. Global tourism generated about one-tenth of the ...

Before the Internet, if you must research or need information, you should hit the books and stay at a library for hours. During these times, putting up the hours at the office was interpreted as making more work. However, times have changed. People are now aware that the hours spent doing a task, nor your ability to go to a central office is not an indication of the efficiency of one's work. Together with this awareness and the change in the ways people meet certain demands, people have been more interested with telecommuting. Furthermore, this paper will discuss telecommuting ...

Introduction

Life happens to come with many unprecedented and unpredicted disasters. Halfway across the world there are news of tornadoes, fires, earthquakes, and floods. News reporters give statistics of the many lives that are lost in such disasters and in many instances, the policy makers are not able to correctly determine the monetary value of property and businesses lost in such instances. Such happenings are taking place across the world and some of the greatest losers are business entities. Owing to these disasters and many more such disasters, business organizations have to think beyond the normal operations (Cobanoglu, Blasik, & Haley, ...

Introduction

Cascade disaster is a concurrent sequence that occurs and initiates the occurrence of another event. Any natural disaster causes detrimental effects to the environment particularly the infrastructure, thereby establishing the need to study the occurrence of cascade to provide preventive measures because climatic changes lead to natural disasters. Therefore, the best approach will be to understand Causal-Loop-Diagrams (CLDs) to examine the magnitude of cascade effect on human health, electricity, infrastructure as well as natural disaster. The researchers have tried to apply the CLD to disastrous events and management, so as to improve the lives of people by providing the ...

Utilitarianism is an ethical principle that dictates that actions are ‘moral’ only when they contribute towards the betterment of the greatest number of people in society or what is often referred to as the ‘greater good theory’ . When considered within the context of Disaster Management and Response, utilitarianism implies that the ideal course of action is one that will allow the maximum number of victims to be rescued, treated and saved. The ethical and moral dilemma this creates is what criteria should medical and rescue personnel use in order to determine which individuals are more worthy of receiving help ...

Introduction

Dealing with natural disasters entail that a country have prepared itself and its citizens, even for the worse case scenario (Rubin, 2012). Furthermore, a country should also have the capability to respond when their preparations to reduce casualties have failed. Likewise, when Hurricane Sandy hit the United States and caused severe damages, there were recommendations that were provided by in order to ensure that emergency preparedness and response to natural disasters in the United States will be significantly improved. Among these recommendations is the “community-based planning and communication” that aims to improve emergency preparedness and response by seeking out ...

Introduction

Among the eight areas that were identified that need policy changes so that FEMA can improve its capabilities is their procurement. Many may overlook this aspect when talking about how FEMA may improve or how it can affect operations in times of emergencies, but this aspect is essential for FEMA. Its improvement will help FEMA’s ability to respond, aid and reconstruct when dealing with emergencies, particularly Hurricane Katrina, to improve (Bea, 2007). This paper will likewise analyze this particular area of change (procurement) and determine how changes in this area can improve FEMA’s capability.

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Focusing Events & Dates

According to the case, the Loma Prieta Earthquake occurred in northern California on October 17, 1989. The disaster caused massive destruction, particularly the collapse of Admiral Nimitz Freeway. Since the freeway was destroyed, it caused fatality of more than forty motorists and drivers collectively. Moreover, there was a major disturbance in gas lines and multiple fire ignitions damaged residential buildings. Northridge Earthquake was the second occurrence on January 17, 1994 in Los Angeles. It was considered as the most destructive earthquake of the decade, since government paid approximately $6.97 billion as damages. USA had experienced Hurricanes, which was another ...

The main theme of the video is the loss of lives of more than 7000 people who died in the earthquake in Nepal. The members of their families were left devastated and the whole country was suffering for over a year. The other major points are related to grief and survival. The earthquake caused devastation and all of this had a negative and lasting impact on the lives of many people. The buildings collapsed and even if the did not, they were left unsafe for living. The danger came unexpectedly because it was from below the ground. Apart from ...

The nuclear energy is a relatively cheap energy source for the increasing energy needs. Nowadays, it is relatively safe energy in terms of technology. This means, that the current state of the nuclear plants have the technical ability to control the nuclear fission, project accidents, and some of the disasters. The nuclear industry is constantly improving its safety. The potential problem is the increasing quantity of the spent nuclear fuel. The facilities with high-level safety are required to store the spent nuclear fuel. The design of the facilities requires prediction of the various unexpected situations, including natural disasters, under ...

Abstract

This paper aims at establishing the validity of Dr. Stephen Flynn’s recommendation for resilience in the event of a tragedy. Terrorism, particularly the September 11 attacks, and other adverse events have occurred in the United States over the past two decades, thereby prompting the need for proper planning for future events. The government does not carry the entire responsibility of developing national resilience; rather, every member of the community has a role to play. There is an urgent need for a continuous national willingness to advance robustness in order to lessen the risk of a discernible hazard, a ...