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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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Effective Managerial Communication in the Aeronautical Field

reports" (Subramanian, 2006, p. 1). It now includes things like the Internet, teleconferencing and other high tech communication m...

Managerial Communications in Aeronautics.

p. 1). It now includes things like the Internet, teleconferencing and other high tech communication methods (Subramanian, 2006). ...

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...

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...

An Exploration of Tsunamis

caused by seismic activity, by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions (Regulatory Intelligence Data, 1998). Tsunamis can also be caus...

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...

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...

Decision Making In Kava

prescriptive because the focus is "on how decisions ought to be made" (Lahti, 2003). There are a number of assumptions underlying ...

Dynamic Cybernetic Team Model

A scenario of disaster plan at a hospital is used as the basis for this essay. The scenario is described briefly, including commen...

Counselor as First Responder

What role does a crisis counselor play as part of a multidisciplinary first response team? What services can a crisis counselor pr...

The Japan Earthquake - Disaster Response Review

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at disaster response tactics. The 2011 Japan earthquake is examined as an example. Pape...

Response to Tuberculosis Outbreak

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at disaster response efforts. A 2012 response to a Colorado tuberculosis outbreak is e...

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...

Government Agencies Coordinating

This paper begins by explaining the reasons it is difficult for different federal agencies and departments to operate with each ot...

Disaster Relief and the United Nation's Style of Leadership

efforts of the international community" (Helton 192). The following examination of UN leadership looks specifically at its efforts...

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...

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...

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...

Culture and Organizational Communication of NASA

Columbia disaster, it was determined that a multitude of the problem which had been uncovered during the investigation which took ...

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...

Legislative Process and Bill Tracking

In ten pages this paper tracks the HR 1469 bill in a process that includes controversy regarding 1996 and 1997 disaster relief vic...

On the Beach by Nevil Shute

In six pages this paper examines a nuclear disaster and how couples contend with the fallout as depicted by Nevil Shute in On the ...

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 ...

Ethics and the Challenger Space Shuttle Tragedy

In eleven pages this paper examines the findings regarding what caused the Challenger space shuttle disaster of January 1986 in an...