Essays on Prater

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Pre-drawn Hazard maps from the agencies?

Risk mapping refers to a program introduced by the federal agencies to equip the communities with the flood tools and information, which enables them to come up with the readily appropriate strategies to reduce hazards and improve their mitigation plans. The pre-drawn maps have various advantages. They help the concerned bodies come up with essential floodplain regulations regarding land use. This move ensures that the people have the ability to target higher-risk locations and come up with the evacuation needs. Such moves provide the reduction of loss of lives. Additionally, employing the appropriate regulations on land use means that ...

Abstract

The Hurricane Katrina is considered the most devastating storm in the United States due to its magnitude of destruction and the casualties involved. Though the weather forecasters had predicted about the storm, the American government had not put any measures to deal with the catastrophe. As a result, the Gulf Coast States that was hit hardest by Katrina lost properties worth billions as well as thousands of lives. The parties involved in the rescue process included the Army Corps, Coast Guards, as well as FEMA. The Katrina hurricane recorded the government inefficiency in two levels. The first one is ...

Final Project- Emergency Planning

The city for which this emergency operation plan is designed the city of San Diego. While there is a probability of the occurrence of natural disasters, there are specific hazards against which the city needs to be wary because of the Mediterranean climate in the city (The Unified Disaster Council, 2014). A hazard assessment performed in the city shows that the probable natural hazards include tropical storms, floods, wildfires, earthquakes, hurricanes, landslides, and droughts (Lindell, Prater, and Perry, 2006). Other hazards with which almost all cities have to content include accidents involving poisonous material, accidents on transportation systems, accidents ...

Humankind is susceptible to many situations which are sudden and take people unawares, wrought by both nature and mankind. These situations are known as emergencies and wreak huge losses to life and property. Although modern technologies have devised sound meteorological systems that may warn us of impending natural calamities such as earthquakes, volcanoes, cyclones, Tsunamis etc., the losses suffered cannot be fully recovered because Government machinery is never sufficient to deal with the magnitude of the disaster. Modernization of facilities to make living style easier has in its wake exposed human kind to many dangers. Exposure to these dangers ...

Introduction

The business environment has become so competitive, and companies are attempting to lure the limited customers to their services. Due to this limitation in the market share, it is critical for companies to devise effective marketing strategies that will help build a strong customer base and also retain the customers and the market share

History of Budget Air Travel

The revolution of budget flights began following the deregulation of the European domestic markets thus allowing the rise of several airline companies. Such deregulations allowed airlines to take routes of their convenience thus creating a culture of liberalization in the domestic travel markets across Europe. ...