MP A R Munich Personal RePEc Archive Natural hazards and disaster management in Pakistan Himayatullah Khan and Abuturab Khan 12. October 2008 Online at http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11052/ MPRA Paper No. 11052‚ posted 12. October 2008 23:59 UTC Natural hazards and disaster management in Pakistan Himayatullah Khan Professor‚ Department of Development Studies COMSATS Institute of Information Technology‚ Abbottabad and Institute of Development Studies NWFP Agricultural University‚ Peshawar
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day; often times only one ship uses the outlet. MRGO has also amplified the wetland loss in the area‚ allowing salt water to intrude and kill off native vegetation. By keeping only heavily used channels open and turning the rest into trails or parks‚ flood damage could be reduced. Adding a subterranean drainage system to the city is another idea that engineers have come up with. This would include
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near the river bed pre 1978 floods which they now refer to as the old Jamak. The 1978 floods washed away the entire village of Jamak and since then the village shifted uphill. The 1991 earthquake also took lives of about 86 inmates and injured around 56. Post 1991‚ minor calamities kept hitting the village until the 2013 floods came and heavily impacted the agricultural lands and fields of the villagers. It was mentioned that “Talannam Tok” got washed away in the floods which had maximum number of
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Rehabilitation is generally designed to facilitate recovery from illness‚ injury or disease to a normal level of functioning. Usually this involves medical and physical treatment and rehabilitation‚ however‚ a person’s recovery has a myriad of other aspects for holistic rehabilitation. In the case of Hannah‚ she has both her physical restrictions to overcome as well as social adjustment to her new situation and her rehabilitation will also involve her family’s adjustment to changes to her lifestyle
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Rehabilitation begin in the 1900s to help the renovations of the correctional system such as implementation of indeterminate sentencing‚ parole‚ probation‚ and a separated juvenile system. So‚ for seven-decade offender treatment ruled as the dominate in corrections philosophy. But‚ in the early 1970s‚ rehabilitation suffered a sudden and dramatic setback and liberals blamed rehabilitation for allowing the State to use force or threats against offenders‚ and conservative blame rehabilitation for allowing
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Floods in Asia: Lessons to be learned from Thailand Said Irandoust‚ Asit K Biswas Special to The Nation January 25‚ 2012 1:00 am [pic] During the last year‚ many Asian countries have witnessed flooding‚ including Bangladesh‚ China‚ India‚ Japan‚ Laos‚ North Korea‚ Pakistan‚ Thailand‚ the Philippines and Singapore. The economic damage has varied significantly - minor in Singapore but very substantial in Thailand. The floods have once again brought the twin issues of disaster management and
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particular place It’s only a hazard if human life is affected A natural hazard becomes a natural disaster when damage to people property or society is sufficient to cause a long recovery and rehabilitation process The four major hazards that affect are 1. drought 2. bush fires 3. tropical cyclones and storms 4. floods Cyclone Larry • AT LEAST 30 PEOPLE WERE INJURED; MOST INJURIES WERE MINOR. • ABOUT HALF THE BUILDINGS IN INNISFAIL AND 80 PER CENT IN BABINDA
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through the great plain of northern India. It has long been notorious for its devastating floods‚ which may rise as much as […] 9 m in 24 hours and which long made vast tracts of northern Bihār unsafe for habitation or cultivation.”2 The special features of the Kosi river are therefore its high amount of sediments it is transporting and the resulting floods – an aspect we will discuss later more detailed. The last flood of the Kosi river happened in August 2008‚ the repercussions of which were disastrous
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Causes Of Flooding In South-Africa 4 4. The Effect Of Development On Flood Hazards in SA 5 5. The Effect Of The Economic Status Of People - Regarding Flood Hazards 6 6. Conclusion 7 7. Bibliography 8 1. Introduction Floods play a major role in our everyday lives‚ and how we react to the daily changing climate is of course our way of surviving our planetary conditions. Floods determine our building styles and play a very large role in the economy
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Introduction Floods are a natural hazard. There have been many devastating floods in the past decade. Different countries have reacted differently during and after the floods have occurred. Some countries have needed economic help during these times. Some countries were able to give detailed warning and saved many lives in doing so. Developed countries have the money to warn its people of any floods or other natural hazards which may affect a community. Developing countries often do not have the
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