Disasters Essays

Natural disasters have been happening all across the world for centuries. Natural disasters are natural events such as: floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, and volcanic eruptions that cause great damages or loss of life. The most common natural disasters that occur in the United States are heat waves, droughts, floods, earthquakes, thunderstorms, …

Yoga is an old method of “exercise” that brings balance to many things such as physical posture, concentration, breath of concentration, control of your senses, induvial ethics and universal ethics. Our researchers Alyson Ross and Sue Thomas have done extensive research on how yoga really effects these variables listed and …

In every part of the world, people are uncertain about their future, because every now and then, they are facing some kind of natural and/or manmade hazards. Florida, amongst many other countries of the world has the geographical position, which makes it more prone towards calamities and natural disasters. Each …

The summit of Mt. Everest is about 29,000 feet above sea level, a level wherein oxygen supply is very thin.  Many climbs have been attempted to reach the top of the world’s tallest mountain.  Many were successful, but many more failed.  Some lost limbs, while others died in the process.  …

Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-5), was issued to develop a new National  Response Plan (NRP) for aligning  and unifying Federal coordination structures, capabilities, and resources into a well integrated, all discipline, and all-hazards approach to domestic incident management. HSPD-5 has set forth certain criteria for identifying Incident of National Significance …

             A plant used to manufacture pesticides meant to boost the “green revolution” program of India which was, in turn, intended to achieve food self-sufficiency, killed around 8,000 people instead, aside from injuring at least three hundred thousand more, most of them for life.  The culprit was the pesticide plant …

While our nation’s aging may not change our government’s objectives, the aging process may wreak havoc on traditional measures of fiscal policy. If more appropriate measures are not developed, all this will lead to a misreading and misdirection of fiscal policy. The U.S. deficit is a case in point. In …

Clean water – There is still a pressing need for clean water. Purification tablets are in high demand, and therefore supplies limited. There is increasing difficulty in sourcing the tablets locally. Housing – The Compassionate Resources Warehouse/NCM Canada offer of shelter boxes is pending the outcome of follow-up by CDO …

Introduction             Mitigation is the acting before a disaster strikes to prevent permanently the occurrence of the disaster or to reduce the effects of the disaster when it occurs and also used effectively after a disaster to reduce the risk of a repeat disaster. The hazard mitigation and preparedness …

Natural disasters are defined as natural catastrophes which cause great damage by disrupting the functioning of a society. Natural disasters are inevitable and ubiquitous worldwide. Within the Caribbean, three main natural disasters are hurricanes, earthquakes, floods. The great damages caused by natural disasters may be divided into two categories: social …