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Engineering Disasters and Issues of Ethics

In five pages the Heathrow Airport tunnel collapse is one of the engineering disasters considered in this ethical examination of c...

Toxic Waste Catastrophe of Love Canal, New York

In six pages this report examines the circumstances that led to this toxic waste catastrophe and considers the human impact as wel...

Computer Failures and Disaster Recovery

and made a disaster recovery plan for if the computer suffered blackout time this would not have been a problem of the same magnit...

New York's History and Natural Disasters

In five pages this paper examines the early history of New York State and New York City in a consideration of natural disasters in...

2 Journal Articles on PTSD

In five pages this paper discusses 2 articles based upon Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as it relates to natural disasters and nei...

Ecological Systems' Restoration

In seven pages this paper discusses how following a disaster damaged ecological systems can be restored. Eleven sources are cited...

Geological Disasters and Human Habitation

regard to changes in drainage patterns from building. However, even without specific knowledge of floodplains, it is possible to ...

Terry Williams' Refuge A Story of Adaptation to Disaster

In five pages this paper compares the death of the author's mother to the natural disaster of wildlife refuge flooding. There is ...

Weakness of Character in The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In three pages character weakness as it results in disaster is examined within the context of the novel by Dostoevsky. There are ...

India's 1984 Bhopal Disaster

In nine pages this paper examines the Bhopal disaster in a comparative analysis of Indian and American reactions to it. Eleven so...

Insurers and Utilizing Disaster Bonds

In five pages disaster bonds are considered in terms of pros and cons for insurers. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Economics and the 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle Accident

In three pages this essay discusses the economic issues that resulted in the January 1986 disaster of the space shuttle Challenger...

Security Risk Management and Disaster Recovery

In five pages the necessity of risk management especially in terms of disaster recovery is examined from a business perspective. ...

Hurricane Katrina and the Pakistan Earthquake Compared

building, there were 200 children killed as a result ("Pakistan puts quake toll at 18,000," 2005). One hospital collapsed as well ...

Union Carbide of India Ltd

by the government for UCIL where 50.9% of the remained in the ownership of Union Carbide Corporation (USA). This indicated the lev...

Statistics On Natural Disasters: China

throughout the first two-thirds of the twentieth century reflects a cyclical recoil of increased famine deaths rather than what on...

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 ...

California's Emergency Services and its Relationship with the Federal Government

and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the South Pacific Division of the US Army Corps of E...

Notification Services

take out the trash ("Memo to Me," 2007). Of course, many computers are equipped with remainder features that exist on software suc...

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...

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...

Disaster Preparedness for Travis County Texas

in General Its a given that disasters are unpredictable; if we could predict them accurately they would be far less damaging, be...

Disaster of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Current Narrows Bridge is a great American saga. When Galloping Gertie splashed into Puget Sound, it created ripple effects across...

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...

Earthquake Planning and Decision Support Systems

A decision support system (DSS) is software that is capable of using complex analytical models that can help support the decision ...

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...

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...

Disaster and Continuity Planning

bad occurs, but they hardly remember the times when imminent danger was in the air. Even before 911, the government would plan for...

Issues of Emergency Response Disaster Management

minds of many - if not most - Americans was a part of the ongoing feud between religious factions in the mideast that occasionally...