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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...

Events That Damage a Business

Businesses are at risk for many different disruptions. Natural disasters like hurricanes and tornadoes and human-made disasters li...

Emergency Management

specifically designed for such an occurrence. What is the single most important aspect of emergency management falls into category...

Social Vulnerability and Ache

had its epicentre off Sunmatas west coast, between Simeulue and mainland Indonesia, 30 km below sea level and had a magnitude 9.3 ...

Security and Risk Management

Emergency preparedness is something in which societies often invest tremendous...

The Impact Of Hurricane Andrew

scholarly catalogs; journals will include - but not be limited to - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of En...

The BP Oil Disaster - a Stakeholder Perspective

provided by the relevant ethical standards expected. 2. Stakeholders may be defined in terms of primary and secondary stakeholders...

The Edge of Disaster

in the effort to make the nation more secure is the private sector, but it has not done so (2007). Instead, the government has tak...

Literature Review of Emergency Preparedness in Puerto Rico

for tsunamis. In short, Puerto Rico, though considered an "island paradise" is rife for all kinds of natural disasters, pa...

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...

Dealing with Disaster using Computer Networks

1. Domain Sizing and Capacity Planning for Windows NT Server 4.0 (reproduced from Microsoft Corporation, 2002) Number SAM Reg...

Managing Risk for a new IT/IS Installation

it is entered, unless it requires some alteration for legitimate purposes. General training of the system use will incorporate t...

Nursing Home Patients And Their Vulnerabilities During Disasters

food, clean water and - most important for some people who did not survive - electricity to keep their life-sustaining equipment r...

Derivatives Risks and Benefits

a futures contract or an option there can be the reduction of exposure to risk by a purchaser that need the underlying goods. Thes...

Assessing the Value of an Information Technology Risk Assessment

value would then be assessed as a result of the savings that were created less the costs of putting those savings in place. Increa...

BP’s Problem in 2010

been undertaking environmental strategies as part of their operations and the emerging BP set themselves a goal of being a leader ...

American Red Cross Introduction To Disaster Services Training

is based upon the foundation of Disaster Services Training: 1. Planning and Coordination 2. Food and Shelter 3. Health and Mental...

Vulnerability and Disaster Response

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at disaster response. Hurricane Katrina provides an example of the role of community v...

Enterprise Risk Management in the Military

Every organization faces risks every day. This paper discusses risk management for private businesses and for the U.S. Marine Corp...

Three Disasters at a Time

In March, 2011, Japan suffered a massive earthquake, a massive tsunami, and a nuclear accident. No country has ever experienced su...

Nature v. Nurture, a Review

It is true that most people still believe that the problems are behavioral rather than medical. This 7 paper explores the issue of...

Chile's Natural Hazards

In eight pages this paper discusses volcanoes, floods, and earthquake tsunami as they relate to the Chilean geography. Six source...

Computer Vulnerabilities in the Energy Industry

Cyber security is an important issue within the energy sector. The Stuxnet targeting of Iranian nuclear facilities demonstrated th...

Vulnerabilities in Network Architecture and Security Protocols

structure of networks and network access protocols in the early 21st century constitutes the single most significant point of vuln...

United States Postal Service and Safety Hazards

In twenty four pages this paper discusses the safety risks and hazards associated with USPS employment. Sixteen sources are cited...

Social Worker Hazard Management Report

In nine pages a social worker's hazard management report is discussed in a consideration of risk minimizing and recommendations de...

Metaphors and Symbolism in Children's Stories

help, grownups refuse to give it what it needs, and offer it instead what it detests. As a substitute for stories that bring suns...

Employment Hazards Associated with Being an Electrician

been an electrician for well over thirty years, and has just barely lived to tell about it (Licher, 2000). Of the electricity tha...

Decision Making and Hazard Insurance

In seven pages this report discusses risk protection as a major underlying role factor of hazard insurance and discusses decision ...

Five Overlooked Workplace Safety Hazards and Their Risks

Health Topics, 2008). These injuries typically occur when forklift trucks veer off loading docks, if a worker is struck by a fork...