A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ catastrophic accidents‚ fires‚ orexplosions. It is a phenomenon that disasters can cause damage to life‚ property and destroy the economic‚ social and cultural life of people. In contemporary
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nuclear disasters‚ in which nuclear energy became stagnant in John Kingdon’s policy cycle. The cycle consists of policy formulation‚ legitimation‚ implementation‚ evaluation‚ and change. When the policy cycle stalls out because of natural disasters‚ it stagnates at the implementation phase. This is because the policy already went through the formulation stage‚ wherein it was simply a concept‚ and it was legitimized by being signed into law. Finally‚ at the implementation phase‚ once the disaster has
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Title: ‘Discuss how response to a humanitarian disaster could be improved through vertical and horizontal collaboration between the various actors’ 1. PURPOSE 2. APPROACH 3. LIMITATIONS Firstly I will outline who the actual ‘actors’ involves in a humanitarian disaster are with the use of Kovács & Spens‚ 2007 diagram provided in our lecture notes. The whole idea of ‘Collaboration’ which has two separate dimensions: 1. Vertical collaboration i.e. between supplier sand customers
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Fail-Safe Option” In Eugene Robinson’s article‚ “No Fail-Safe Option‚” he addresses that nuclear power is beginning to look like a “bargain with the devil” (Robinson 226). Robinson‚ a journalist for The Washington Post‚ aims his article at the Chernobyl disaster and the unlikeliness of the Fukushima crisis ending with the same result. Even though Japanese engineers struggle to keep the catastrophe from escalating even higher‚ Robinson says we cannot ignore the fact that nuclear fission is “inherently
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much horror‚ misery‚ helplessness and doom as the term “Natural Disaster”. A natural disaster is any event of force of nature that is caused by environmental factors that has catastrophic consequences. Every year they not only decimate thousands of people and their properties but end entire blood lines. These calamities wreak havoc in the part of the world it chooses to act upon. Over the centuries various types of natural disasters or “Acts of god” have stolen human lives. Several criterions such
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2011. Brook‚ Barry. "Fukushima Nuclear Accident: A Simple and Accurate Explanation." Brave New Climate. 13 Mar. 2011. Web. Dec. 2011. Ritter‚ Malcom. "Japan Nuclear Disaster Released Higher Radiation Levels Than Previously Reported‚ Study Finds." The Huffington Post. 27 Oct. 2011. Web. Dec. 2011 State of Immediate Response after Disaster Struck at Fukushima Daiichi Power Station. Rep. Tepco‚ 20 Mar. 2011. Web. Dec. 2011.
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Eugene Robinson‚ author of “No Fail-Safe Option”‚ writes during the recent destruction of the Fukushima power plant‚ cautioning the use of nuclear power‚ and touching on the Chernobyl incident. He claims that the idea of nuclear energy‚ in spite of its benefits‚ is not worth the destruction and damage it could potentially cause. Robinson illustrates his point by identifying the problem behind the Fukushima plant in Japan. He states that the Earth will do what it ultimately decides‚ whether that
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An even greater environmental threat are nuclear power stations. We all know how tragic the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster are. People are beginning to realise that environmental problems are not somebody else’s. They join and support various international organosation and green parties. If governments wake up to what is happening- perhaps we’ll be able to avoid the disaster that threatens the natural world and all of us with it.
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Nuclear energy – Uses and abuses Nuclear energy is the energy created from the nucleus of atoms. The nuclear power is released in nuclear reactions which can be nuclear fusion and nuclear fission. In nuclear fusion‚ atoms combine together to form a larger atom. This is accompanied by the release or absorption of energy. Large scale fusion processes involve very high temperatures and densities‚ such as the production of energy from the sun and the shine from stars we see in the night sky. On the
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Environment issues in Europe Air pollution‚ acid rain‚ and the disaster at Chernobyl have weakened or almost destroyed the natural environment in Europe. All of these have caused major concern and actions in Europe. People being scared if they go outside they might die. All this because of pollution; pollution is powerful and very dangerous. Air pollution is one of the environmental hardships Europe has to face. Air pollution is caused by power plants‚ and traffic; pumping fossil fuel into the
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