YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Edge of Disaster
Essays 121 - 150
In nine pages this paper examines the Bhopal disaster in a comparative analysis of Indian and American reactions to it. Eleven so...
In five pages the necessity of risk management especially in terms of disaster recovery is examined from a business perspective. ...
to communicate with the customers, but for some industries, such as power, water and communications such as telephone there may ne...
Columbia disaster, it was determined that a multitude of the problem which had been uncovered during the investigation which took ...
Current Narrows Bridge is a great American saga. When Galloping Gertie splashed into Puget Sound, it created ripple effects across...
In five pages this Florida based investment brokerage and financial planning firm is considered in terms of a plan for disaster re...
in General Its a given that disasters are unpredictable; if we could predict them accurately they would be far less damaging, be...
state, local and personal levels for survival during, and recovery after, a hurricane has passed through an area. On the federal l...
A survey conducted in 1995 by ICR Survey Research Group regarding vulnerability of computers found that sixty six percent of respo...
minds of many - if not most - Americans was a part of the ongoing feud between religious factions in the mideast that occasionally...
specifically designed for such an occurrence. What is the single most important aspect of emergency management falls into category...
be trying to use a 486 or even a Pentium I computer today, but nonprofit organizations dependent on donations or public entities w...
company was located. While no one was able to access the building, real estate sales continued in less affected areas of the city...
assume that a small company should outsource its IT services...2 The point that Childs and Dietrich (2002) seek to convey i...
It can be assumed that the company qualifies as a mid-sized one, however, given the number of employees at its headquarters locati...
dependent they are on easy access to clean water until something prevents that access. The Impact of Natural Disasters Informati...
be recognised, that need to be addressed, especially as the company holds a great deal of sensitive information. These may be comp...
a main area of study being the normative reaction to non normative events. The impact of stress created by disasters is argued to ...
blacks in the U.S. and the Caribbean alike (Everybodys: The Caribbean-American Magazine, 1998). Ebonics has invoked considerable ...
who have lost home and family to a natural disaster, the Red Cross provides relief and hope. The American Red Cross is...
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...
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...
building, there were 200 children killed as a result ("Pakistan puts quake toll at 18,000," 2005). One hospital collapsed as well ...
caused by seismic activity, by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions (Regulatory Intelligence Data, 1998). Tsunamis can also be caus...