with this view? (40 marks) Volcanic and seismic events can take place all over the world and therefore both more economically developed countries (MEDCs) and less economically developed countries (LEDCs) can be affected. In the last 30 years there have been multiple examples of where volcanic and seismic events have had an impact on both MEDCs and LEDCs. Some of these include the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the 2011 Japanese earthquake and the consequential tsunami. In this essay I will show how
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exercise should allow you to compare the effects of quakes on countries at different levels of development and to then try and suggest reasons for any differences or similarities you find. | |MEDC – Kobe‚ Japan |LEDC – Kashmir‚ Pakistan | |Location |Kobe is located 32 kilometres west of Osaka on the |The epicentre is Muzzafarabad the capital of Pakistan | |
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the vulnerability of an area plays a role in the impacts of seismic events. It is generally accepted that if an earthquake of the same scale occurred in an LEDC and an MEDC‚ the impacts on human life would be greater in an LEDC. For example‚ an earthquake occurred in California (MEDC) on October 17th 1989 and an earthquake occurred in Nepal (LEDC) on 18th September 2011‚ both measuring 6.9Mw. The earthquake in Nepal caused a larger human disaster than in California‚ as 111 people died in Nepal compared
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world’s population are China and India‚ they both have populations of over 1 billion and China contains 19% of the population whilst India contains 17.4%. The highest populated continents are Asia and Africa‚ which are continents that most of the LEDCs are from. Asia has a population of over 4 billion and Africa has a population of over 1 billion‚ which makes up more than half of the world’s population. The population in these countries and continents are continuing to rise which could cause problems
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of depts.to pay that’s why Ghana is still a LEDC. Health care‚ health care is needed in a lot of LEDCs because they have so much disease coming out of bad weather or not enough food lets take Somali as an example they never had enough to eat‚ you can see their ribcages they have a very bad weather which is always hot and dry‚ so you help the country to be healthy by building hospitals‚ so they have the energy to develop. Clean water‚ most of the LEDCs don’t have clean water access‚ they drink water
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by looking at the crude birth rate and crude death rate we are able to see how the population grows in certain countries. Looking at how high the rates are in a LEDC country and a MEDC country‚ you are able to conclude that you can relate specific factors to different areas of the world. When looking at the population growth of a LEDC there are common factors that appear when looking at the death and birth rates. For example when looking at the country Tanzania in Africa‚ you can see that there
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Hazard Monitoring And Disaster Reduction EM-DAT It’s a global database on natural disasters that contains essential data on the occurrence and effects of more than 17‚000 disasters in the world from 1900 to present. The database is compiled from various sources‚ including UN agencies‚ non-governmental organisations‚ insurance companies‚ research institutes and press agencies. It’s data is primarily used by governments and agencies in charge of relief and recovery after a disaster. In addition
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flooding. MEDCs are better placed to reduce the effects of tropical storms because they have more financial‚ educational and technological resources to help deal with them. They better able to observe and predict storm behaviour and can invest in infrastructure to withstand storms - as well as spending more money on repairing the damage caused. Preparation and prediction Preparation and prediction techniques to help cope with hurricanes can be very different in MEDCs and LEDCs. MEDCs MEDCs have the
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on the social‚ environmental and economic stature of an area. This is evident when comparing two of the most notable tropical revolving storms in the last decade. Hurricane Katrina hit the MEDC coast of Louisiana and the Mississippi in the form of a category 5 storm and the category 4 cyclone Nargis hit the LEDC nation‚ Burma‚ particularly the Irrawaddy delta. Despite similar magnitudes the impacts of these two tropical revolving storms varied-
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trying to build the “perfect” city by implementing technologies that they can afford because of their wealth. Other cities will develop naturally by population growth and industrial development. Developed cities in MEDCs such as Los Angeles‚ have a formal economy. Less developed cities in LEDCs often have an informal‚ primary sector economy. Los Angeles will develop a higher GDP per capita whilst poorer cities relying on unregulated work such as Mumbai will have most of its population continue to live
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