Economic disasters

Natural and man-made disasters, crises, and other trauma-causing events have become a focus of the clinical mental health counseling profession because of the need to help people who experience such events and who may develop psychological disorders that arises from them. PTSD is a crippling outcome of many of these disasters and accounts for a large percentage of the major effects to not only those experiencing the disaster first hand, but also to the first-responders and members of the affected

Introduction Disasters are incidents that most hope to avoid but in reality they happen often. Preparation for these events is necessary if the damage and loss of life is to be mitigated. Several events have occurred in the last decade that has increased awareness of the necessity of emergency management. Events such Hurricane Katrina and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Both of these events had massive death tolls and millions of dollars worth of property damage. They both resulted in a public outcry

The Australian wine Yellow Tail engaged in cause-related marketing when they donated $100,000 to the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS); however, this effort misfired. The effort misfired because Yellow Tail did not do their homework before donating to a cause. If Yellow Tail had done their homework before donating to the HSUS, they would have found that Charity Navigator, a website that evaluates and rates various charities, has a “donor advisory” for the HSUS because of several issues

Mass casualty incident by definition is “any incident, which because of its physical size, the number and criticality of victims, or its complexity, is likely to overwhelm those local resources which would typically be available (Mass, 2017).” Many actions are taken initially upon the choice to make a pronouncement to classify a situation mass casualty incident. These consist of initial actions, which can include assessment of the scene, request for additional resources such as chemical isolation

Page 1 of 2 Drew TejchmanURST 241Professor PratoMarch 11, 2018Katrina There are many tragic disasters that happen all over the world! Some of these tragic situations that occur are out of our hands and can't always be controlled, but what we can do is help and warn people in these times. In recent disasters we have not been fully committed on doing that and that has led us to be more prepared. When Katrina happened in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 23, 2005 hundreds of people died and lost homes

Our world is complex there has always been and always will be disasters that can happen anywhere anytime. There can be natural disasters, for example floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, wild fires and drought. There are also man-made and technology types of disasters from hazardous material spills, biological weapons, cyber-attacks to even civil unrest. According to PEMA, the history of emergency management can date all the way back the first civil defense program which was started during World War I

“CERT educates individuals about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations.” (2016). There are ten regions for all the states. Tennessee being in region four, along with Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North and South Carolina. The goal and priorities for CERT is to be able to assist the general public, and the first responders

Various disasters throughout the Nation remain a great threat to our communities. In most cases, many of these disasters catch first responders and emergency managers off guard, and create disruption in the lives and livelihood of individuals, their families, and communities. In this paper, I provide an example and description of the three categories of disasters: natural disaster, accidental human-made disaster, and deliberate human-made disaster. Additionally, I discuss psychological effects

Vulnerability of people in Hurricane Andrew and the Bangladesh Typhoon were different for these two social systems despite the similarities of the two disasters. Hurricane Andrew took place in 1992 and was a category five hurricane which killed 23 people and left $26.5 billion in damages. Bangladesh Typhoon took place in 1991 and was also the same storm intensity as Hurricane Andrew, however, it killed 100,000 people and left millions displaced. “Humans are great optimizers” (Walker & Salt, 2006

Natural and artificial disasters have always posed a threat to the development of countries across the world. In that regard, different governments have already established strategies that can be implemented to deal effectively with the disasters, which occur. It has been observed that the developing countries are slightly behind than the developed ones regarding dealing effectively with the disasters that occur abruptly. When a disaster occurs, the priority is to reduce the vulnerability of people