Great disaster

My partner Nicole and I affirm the following resolution resolved: The United Nations should reform its policies regarding infrastructure and disaster plans in cities near fault lines in case of an earthquake. For clarity in today’s debate we will offer the following definitions from Oxford Dictionaries: Reform to make changes in (something, especially an institution or practice) in order to improve it. Infrastructure is defined as the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e

According to FEMA in Professor Rion’s PowerPoint slides, a disaster is “An occurrence that has resulted in property damage, deaths, and/or injuries to the community” (FEMA, 1990). I personally believe this definition is the best because not every disaster has to have a certain amount of deaths to occur or a specific number of injuries. I also like this definition because it fits to the disaster that happened in my hometown over a year ago. I’m from Penn Yan, NY which is a village on Keuka Lake,

Sudden-onset of natural disasters disrupts daily life and, in the worst cases, causes devastation. Disasters are occurring at a rate many people cannot absorb psychologically and financially. Therefore, affecting people’s decisions to move away from disaster-prone areas, mainly if they were displaced, lost their possessions, or had a traumatic experience. To help alleviate some of these effects, FEMA has not only developed mitigation planning guides for local governments to adopt as a guide but also

Disasters are incidents or accidents that are disruptive, tragic, and in many instances result in deadly and injurious events. Emergency management seek to apply science and technology, planning and management to deal with disasters that can result into death or injury of several people and destruction of property within the community, state, and the nation. Emergency management make effort to eliminate or at least lessen the number of losses and cost through execution of strategies that reflect

Abstract This paper will discuss some of the forms of violence that occurs following disasters. Natural and man-made disasters may result in significant devastation, causing a total collapse of the affecting community, the law enforcement that oversees the community, availability of health care, the displacement of people; all are contributing factors to potential violence. The resulting impact of the affected community is significantly compounded on the most vulnerable. Emergency personnel

Throughout history, there has been many close calls with natural disasters, such as hurricanes, twisters, and earthquakes. For this reason alone, many organizations today realize the importance to design or perhaps review their disaster plans. These plans should include detailed documentation to counteract the interruption or destruction of technology used in the facility. One perfect example, would be in the healthcare industry. In the last couple of years, hospitals have been transitioning from

Authors Bio Susan Beth Pfeffer decided that she wanted to be a writer when her father dedicated the law book he was writing to his daughter. Right then and there she wrote her first little story about the love between a pair of scissors and an Oreo cookie. Her childhood experiences form the basis of her writing, seeing that she grew up in the suburbs in New York. This explains why most of her books focus on young people growing up in the suburbs. Pfeffer went on to New York University. After getting

pursuing mitigation programs as a means to do so. To fund mitigation, arguments need to be developed to persuade those who has authority to approve and release funding. The additional mitigation benefit are cost savings, one that is not realized until a disaster happens, and increased resiliency. These additional benefits is what sways the bureaucracy which looks at the cost verses benefits and cost savings; it is key to fund mitigation programs. Mr. Brent Woodworth, Chairman of Multihazard Mitigation Council

non-profit sectors need to work as a team during crisis because it is not only up to the public sector to provide the necessary services during a disaster. Organizations over the past few decades have come to realize two things, there are a limited number of people in the government that are able to respond to natural disasters or large scale disaster effectively and that the government only has so many available resources to offer during a time of crisis. Another fact is, that private sector companies

Living in Chicago, which is known as Windy City, a natural disaster that would impact our community would be a power outage. Last year our community experienced several power outages due to strong winds. According to Nies & McEwen (2015), nurses aside of their personal duty of developing a disaster plan for home and family, they have a duty towards their community where they can assist by developing plans for disaster prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery for the facilities where they