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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"man made disaster"”.
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Failsafe : living with man-made disaster and accident
… design of our systems are not enough to prevent 'man-made' accident. Social, organisational and political means are needed to understand the causes of disaster in the twenty-first century. This project conducts an autopsy on an historic technological disaster case examining the build up to the …
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The effectiveness of ‘secure and guard’ (SG) method and 14 protocol against illegal dumping of solid waste in Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur (WPKL)
Illegal dumping of waste is a man-made-disaster which now increasing and leads to environmental harms. Several countries have been experimenting with their own programs in an effort of against illegally dumping waste. In Malaysia, Solid Waste Corporation (SWCorp), the organization that responsible …
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Modeling Crowd Mobility and Communication in Wireless Networks
… two main directions of our contributions are human mobility models and strategies for the mobile sink positioning and communication in wireless networks. The first direction of the dissertation is related to human mobility modeling. Modeling the movement of human subjects is important to improve …
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Explosive remnants of war: a case study of explosive ordnance disposal in Laos, 1974-2013
This thesis examines one man-made disaster, resulting from the plethora of UneXploded Ordnance (UXO) in Laos, to clarify the performance of post-conflict humanitarian aid and development until 2012. This is achieved through case study field work in Laos. The time period studied is from 1954, the …
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TEMPLATES FOR CREATING STANDARDIZED CARTOGRAPHIC PRODUCTSFOR MONTANA COUNTY PRE-DISASTER MITIGATION PLANS
… available to those involved in emergency management throughout the state. As a component of this process, the Committee authorized funding for a project devoted to the development of standardized map products for pre-disaster mitigation (PDM) plans during the spring of 2006, and the …
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TEMPLATES FOR CREATING STANDARDIZED CARTOGRAPHIC PRODUCTSFOR MONTANA COUNTY PRE-DISASTER MITIGATION PLANS
… available to those involved in emergency management throughout the state. As a component of this process, the Committee authorized funding for a project devoted to the development of standardized map products for pre-disaster mitigation (PDM) plans during the spring of 2006, and the …
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Three essays on the topics of China
… 1958 to 1961 was among the worst throughout human history. The estimates of the death toll vary between 20 and 43 million. Existing literature has shown a debate between two competing theories of the potential causes of the Great Famine: “Compulsory Grain Procurement (GP)” versus “Communal …
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Governance and conflict in Pakistan: Developing a Conflict Prevention and Reduction (CPR) model to promote peace in Baluchistan and the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA)
… country, home to a single religious nation made up of four major regional ethnic sub-nations. The inability of the political leadership of Pakistan to successfully connect and merge the interests of the nation and sub-nations with the interests of the state has been a longstanding issue. …