Natural Disasters is a collection of twelve short stories that feature a variety of narrators as they interact with the ones they love. In these stories, characters experience puberty, friendship, love, loss, trauma, and the everyday magic of living as they fight to master their own failings. Those lucky enough find solace in the forgiving beauty of nature, while others succumb to the untamable power of its disasters. This thesis is useful, important, and unique as it focuses on the stories of a variety of characters, mostly women and children, and displays the beauty and fearsome power of nature as the characters strive to achieve their goals. In today's political and social climate, women, children, and nature are often taken for granted, underestimated, and even forgotten about. Here, they are anything but forgotten. Women join together to fight trauma, children stand together and face some of today's worst natural disasters, and nature is portrayed as a source of magic. This thesis gives these characters a voice and shines a spotlight on their importance to the world and society as a whole. ; 2017-12-01 ; M.F.A. ; Arts and Humanities, English ; Masters ; This record was generated from author submitted information.
International audience ; The book includes twelve contributions (three in French, four in English, five in Italian) covering a wide spectrum of locations around the world: from Hawaii to Italy (Sicily, the Alps, the Neapolitan area: the Phlegraean Fields, Ischia island and mount Vesuvius), from the Democratic Republic of Congo to India, from Papua New Guinea to Latin America. It proceeds from different interpretative perspectives, so as to overcome the disciplinary boundaries and to encourage readings that can be integrated with each other. The same variety is present both in the field of disasters and in popular/oral literature. In the first case, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, droughts, landslides and mudflows, glaciers and global warming are evoked. In the second, popular legends, proverbs, fairy tales, myths, collective memory, plausible tales, conspiracy theories and urban legends.BOOK INDEX:Preface - Joel CandauIntroduction - Giovanni Gugg, Elisabetta Dall'O', Domenica BorrielloSection I - Magnitude1. L'isola nata in mezzo al mare. Mitopoiesi, disastri e microcosmi - Ugo Vuoso2. The Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas Project and the moral decay of the universe - Michael Main3. Pozzuoli, 2 marzo 1970: lo sgombero del rione Terra nella memoria dei puteolani - Maria Laura LongoSection II - Eruptions4. Il vulcano meraviglioso. Antropologia del racconto fantastico vesuviano - Giovanni Gugg5. Les Volcans des Virunga à l'Est de la République Démocratique du Congo, une perception populaire: un mythe ou une réalité ? - Patrick Habakaramo, Gracia Mutalegwa, Justin Kahuranyi, Katcho Karume6. Ka wahine 'ai honua, la donna che divora la terra: un'analisi ecoantropologica del mito di Pele - Emanuela Borgnino 7. The Veil of Saint Agatha in Popular Narratives of Etna Risk - Salvatore Cannizzaro, Gian Luigi Corinto Section III - Conspiracies8. Les théories du complot : entre croyances, légendes et menaces sociales - Christine Bonardi 9. Une esthétique de l'impensable. Miettes pour une anthropologie généralisée du ...
International audience ; The book includes twelve contributions (three in French, four in English, five in Italian) covering a wide spectrum of locations around the world: from Hawaii to Italy (Sicily, the Alps, the Neapolitan area: the Phlegraean Fields, Ischia island and mount Vesuvius), from the Democratic Republic of Congo to India, from Papua New Guinea to Latin America. It proceeds from different interpretative perspectives, so as to overcome the disciplinary boundaries and to encourage readings that can be integrated with each other. The same variety is present both in the field of disasters and in popular/oral literature. In the first case, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, droughts, landslides and mudflows, glaciers and global warming are evoked. In the second, popular legends, proverbs, fairy tales, myths, collective memory, plausible tales, conspiracy theories and urban legends.BOOK INDEX:Preface - Joel CandauIntroduction - Giovanni Gugg, Elisabetta Dall'O', Domenica BorrielloSection I - Magnitude1. L'isola nata in mezzo al mare. Mitopoiesi, disastri e microcosmi - Ugo Vuoso2. The Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas Project and the moral decay of the universe - Michael Main3. Pozzuoli, 2 marzo 1970: lo sgombero del rione Terra nella memoria dei puteolani - Maria Laura LongoSection II - Eruptions4. Il vulcano meraviglioso. Antropologia del racconto fantastico vesuviano - Giovanni Gugg5. Les Volcans des Virunga à l'Est de la République Démocratique du Congo, une perception populaire: un mythe ou une réalité ? - Patrick Habakaramo, Gracia Mutalegwa, Justin Kahuranyi, Katcho Karume6. Ka wahine 'ai honua, la donna che divora la terra: un'analisi ecoantropologica del mito di Pele - Emanuela Borgnino 7. The Veil of Saint Agatha in Popular Narratives of Etna Risk - Salvatore Cannizzaro, Gian Luigi Corinto Section III - Conspiracies8. Les théories du complot : entre croyances, légendes et menaces sociales - Christine Bonardi 9. Une esthétique de l'impensable. Miettes pour une anthropologie généralisée du ...
Not Available ; Disasters are of two type's natural and anthropogenic hazard or man-made hazards. A natural disaster is a major adverse geologic process resulting as floods, earth quakes, tsunamis which cause severe damage of life, property and environment. While the anthropogenic hazard results in the form of human intent, negligence, human error and involving a failure of man-made system. The Nagaram gas leaking from GAIL pipeline fire explosion took 23 lives in the early hours of 27th June 2014. This explosion occurred close to the ONGC's Tatipaka mini-refinery and a gas collecting station began leaking the day before the accident and spread over the area and caught fire when the tea vendor lit a stove. The impact was devastating as the flames spread over a 1 km radius, catching people in the vicinity unawares. The major cause for this mishap is apathy towards the haul of surveillance and hovered district administration. The state government has announced ex-gratia of 50,000 rupees and GAIL has announced an ex-gratia of 25 lakh to the next kin of those who died, and 5 lakh to those who suffered permanent disability as a medical aid. The paper aims to question the governments' ex-gratia over decimation, despite additional surveillance based on an empirical work in support of disaster relief operations over this anthropogenic hazard of GAIL pipeline disaster. This paper provides an overview of this hazard in victim's family/kin perspective, which is aggravated significantly by the vulnerability of people's vicinity, and the findings of the study will be useful to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of disaster relief operations in order to assist in the aftermath of future anthropogenic disasters. ; Not Available
This paper surveys recent research on decentralization and natural disasters. The first part discusses results from theoretical models that have been used to study the issues that arise when natural disasters occur in a country with more than one level of government. The next section discusses the empirical results that have been found in the literature. A third section briefly touches upon practical problems that arise when decentralized governments are confronted with a natural disaster. The paper concludes by reflecting on what we know about whether policies to confront natural disasters should be centralized or decentralized.
Disasters have become more devastated and frequent in occurrence worldwide whereas Sri Lanka too is also prone to multiple disasters especially to disasters with a hydro meteorological origin. Meethotamulla and Kuruniyawaththa Grama Niladhari Divisions are located in the flood plain of lower Kalani River basin which is highly prone to multiple disasters. The study was carried out to identify the prevailing disaster types and to study the spatial and temporal variation of health impacts of them. Methodology of data collection consists of a semi structured interview and a questionnaire survey, which were conducted among fifty households from each Grama Niladhari Division. For the interviews, key informants like government officials who are serving for the area were selected. Methods spatial analysis and descriptive analysis along with some statistical methods of descriptive statistics are used as the methods of data analysis and to present the findings maps and graphs have been used. According to results, people have identified epidemics as the most common disaster type and floods as the most damaging disaster type in the areas and psychiatric disorders, dengue and leptospirosis were identified as health impacts resulted by the flooding. With a great emphasis the residents warned the garbage dumping site as a hazard with a sliding risk, which had previously not been informed my government officials. A year later it, the dumping site slide submerging an entire area. So the study highlights the importance of understanding the risk especially in areas with multiple hazards in planning and decision making. Chathumani D. | Nandaseela S. M. A. T. De S. "Disasters after Disasters; Case Study Based on Spatial Distribution of Health Implications of Multiple Disasters; Sri Lanka in 2016" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-4 , June 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd24042.pdf
This paper focuses on the impact of disasters on public expenditures, and how this impact might be valued. The impact may involve changes in the composition of spending, concurrently and over time. It may also involve changes in the level of spending and the profile of this over time. In the latter case, the associated financing must also be taken into account. The changes of interest are those that would take place under a given sovereign disaster risk financing and insurance strategy, as opposed to what would take place otherwise. The paper concludes with some suggestions toward an operational framework for addressing these questions.
The M. H. Ross Papers contain information pertaining to labor, politics, social issues of the twentieth century, coal mining and its resulting lifestyle, as well as photographs and audio materials. The collection is made up of five different accessions; L2001-05, which is contained in boxes one through 104, L2002-09 in boxes 106 through 120, L2006-16 in boxes 105 and 120, L2001-01 in boxes 120-121, and L2012-20 in boxes 122-125. The campaign materials consist of items from the 1940 and 1948 political campaigns in which Ross participated. These items include campaign cards, posters, speech transcripts, news clippings, rally materials, letters to voters, and fliers. Organizing and arbitration materials covers labor organizing events from "Operation Dixie" in Georgia, the furniture workers in North Carolina, and the Mine-Mill workers in the Western United States. Organizing materials include fliers, correspondence, news articles, radio transcripts, and some related photos. Arbitration files consist of agreements, decisions, and agreement booklets. The social and political research files cover a wide time period (1930's to the late 1970's/early 1980's). The topics include mainly the Ku Klux Klan, racism, Communism, Red Scare, red baiting, United States history, and literature. These files consist mostly of news and journal articles. Ross interacted with coal miners while doing work for the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) and while working at the Fairmont Clinic in West Virginia. Included in these related files are books, news articles, journals, UMWA reports, and coal miner oral histories conducted by Ross. Tying in to all of the activities Ross participated in during his life were his research and manuscript files. He wrote numerous newspaper and journal articles on history and labor. Later, as he worked for the UMWA and at the Fairmont Clinic, he wrote more in-depth articles about coal miners, their lifestyle, and medical problems they faced (while the Southern Labor Archives has many of Ross's coal mining and lifestyle articles, it does not have any of his medical articles). Along with these articles are the research files Ross collected to write them, which consist of notes, books, and newspaper and journal articles. In additional to his professional career, Ross was adamant about documenting his and his wife's family history in the oral history format. Of particular interest are the recordings of his interviews with his wife's family - they were workers, musicians, and singers of labor and folk songs. Finally, in this collection are a number of photographs and slides, which include images of organizing, coal mining (from the late 19th through 20th centuries), and Appalachia. Of note is a small photo album from the 1930s which contains images from the Summer School for Workers, and more labor organizing. A few audio items are available as well, such as Ross political speeches and an oral history in which Ross was interviewed by his daughter, Jane Ross Davis in 1986. All photographic and audio-visual materials are at the end of their respective series. ; Myron Howard "Mike" Ross was born November 9, 1919 in New York City. He dropped out of school when he was seventeen and moved to Texas, where he worked on a farm. From 1936 until 1939, Ross worked in a bakery in North Carolina. In the summer of 1938, he attended the Southern School for Workers in Asheville, North Carolina. During the fall of 1938, Ross would attend the first Southern Conference on Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama. He would attend this conference again in 1940 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. From 1939 to 1940, Ross worked for the United Mine Workers Non-Partisan League in North Carolina, working under John L. Lewis. He was hired as a union organizer by the United Mine Workers of America, and sent to Saltville, Virginia and Rockwood, Tennessee. In 1940, Ross ran for a seat on city council on the People's Platform in Charlotte, North Carolina. During this time, he also married Anne "Buddie" West of Kennesaw, Georgia. From 1941 until 1945, Ross served as an infantryman for the United States Army. He sustained injuries near the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944. From 1945 until 1949, Ross worked for the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, then part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), as a union organizer. He was sent to Macon, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia and to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he worked with the United Furniture Workers Union. He began handling arbitration for the unions. In 1948, Ross ran for United States Congress on the Progressive Party ticket in North Carolina. He also served as the secretary for the North Carolina Progressive Party. Ross attended the University of North Carolina law school from 1949 to 1952. He graduated with honors but was denied the bar on the grounds of "character." From 1952 until 1955, he worked for the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers as a union organizer, first in New Mexico (potash mines) and then in Arizona (copper mines). From 1955 to 1957, Ross attended the Columbia University School of Public Health. He worked for the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund from 1957 to 1958, where he represented the union in expenditure of health care for mining workers. By 1958, Ross began plans for what would become the Fairmont Clinic, a prepaid group practice in Fairmont, West Virginia, which had the mission of providing high quality medical care for miners and their families. From 1958 until 1978, Ross served as administrator of the Fairmont Clinic. As a result of this work, Ross began researching coal mining, especially coal mining lifestyle, heritage and history of coal mining and disasters. He would interview over one hundred miners (coal miners). Eventually, Ross began writing a manuscript about the history of coal mining. Working for the Rural Practice Program of the University of North Carolina from 1980 until 1987, Ross taught in the medical school. M. H. Ross died on January 31, 1987 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ; Digitization of the M. H. Ross Papers was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Natural disasters have a statistically observable adverse impact on the macro-economy in the short-run. Not surprisingly, costlier events cause more pronounced slowdowns in production. Yet, interestingly, developing countries, and smaller economies, face much larger output declines following a disaster of similar relative magnitude than do developed countries or bigger economies. A close study of the determinants of these adverse macroeconomic output costs reveals several interesting patterns. Countries with a higher literacy rate, better institutions, higher per capita income, higher degree of openness to trade, and higher levels of government spending are better able to withstand the initial disaster shock and prevent further spillovers into the macro-economy. These all suggest an increased ability to mobilize resources for reconstruction. Financial conditions also seem to be of importance; countries with more foreign exchange reserves, and higher levels of domestic credit, but with less-open capital accounts appear more robust and better able to endure natural disasters, with less adverse spillover into domestic production.
The lessons of the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011 seem to be the same as those from Chernobyl 25 years earlier, despite the different political settings. Apparently not much had been learned.
Kings of Disaster: Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in Southern Sudan (Michigan State & Fountain) is a remarkable ethnography of people whose sense of commonality is produced by their common opposition to their kings. The book brings together an impressive body of archival sources and excellent ethnographic research, but has remained underappreciated outside a small circle of specialists. Partly this was a matter of timing. Simonse carried out his first research trip in 1981, while he was teaching at Juba University. During the next five years, Juba came under siege, becoming a key government-controlled outpost circled by rebel-held territory. Extended work outside the town became more and more difficult. By the time the book was published in 1992, Sudan had been at war for nearly a decade and the book's subject matter seemed part of the discipline's history. Political anthropology was giving way to the anthropology of the state and interest shifted from 'traditional registers' of power to the bio-politics of bodies and populations and discourses of science and health (Hansen & Stepputat, 2016, pp. 299-300).
Intense climate-related disasters - floods, storms, droughts, and heat waves - have been on the rise worldwide. At the same time and coupled with an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, temperatures, on average, have been rising, and are becoming more variable and more extreme. Rainfall has also been more variable and more extreme. Is there an ominous link between the global increase of these hydrometeorological and climatological events on the one side and anthropogenic climate change on the other? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising population exposure, greater population vulnerability, and increasing climate-related hazards - behind the increased frequency of intense climate-related natural disasters. In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination for 1971-2013, population exposure measured by population density and people's vulnerability measured by socioeconomic variables are positively linked to the frequency of these intense disasters. Importantly, the results show that precipitation deviations are positively related to hydrometeorological events, while temperature and precipitation deviations have a negative association with climatological events. Moreover, global climate change indicators show positive and highly significant effects. Along with the scientific association between greenhouse gases and the changes in the climate, the findings in this paper suggest a connection between the increasing number of natural disasters and man-made emissions of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The implication is that climate mitigation and climate adaptation should form part of actions for disaster risk reduction.
The recent spate of natural disasters across Australia has led to an outpouring of spontaneous volunteering, both formally through nonprofit and government agencies and informally through local community and online networks. Relatively little is understood about the motivations and characteristics of spontaneous volunteers. The aims of this project were to: Examine the characteristics and motivations of spontaneous volunteers who respond to a crisis event; Illuminate the effects of spontaneous volunteering on personal, social and civic networks; Explicate the conditions under which sustained volunteering and other forms of civic engagement arise from spontaneous volunteering and; Consider the practical implications of these findings for organisations involved in coordinating volunteers both with and beyond disaster events.
The start of the new millennium will be remembered for deadly climate-related disasters - the great floods in Thailand in 2011, Super Storm Sandy in the United States in 2012, and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013, to name a few. In 2014, 17.5 million people were displaced by climate-related disasters, ten times more than the 1.7 million displaced by geophysical hazards. What is causing the increase in natural disasters and what effect does it have on the economy? Climate Change and Natural Disasters sends three messages: human-made factors exert a growing influence on climate-related disasters; because of the link to anthropogenic factors, there is a pressing need for climate mitigation; and prevention, including climate adaptation, ought not to be viewed as a cost to economic growth but as an investment. Ultimately, attention to climate-related disasters, arguably the most tangible manifestation of global warming, may help mobilize broader climate action. It can also be instrumental in transitioning to a path of low-carbon, green growth, improving disaster resilience, improving natural resource use, and caring for the urban environment. Vinod Thomas proposes that economic growth will become sustainable only if governments, political actors, and local communities combine natural disaster prevention and controlling climate change into national growth strategies. When considering all types of capital, particularly human capital, climate action can drive economic growth, rather than hinder it.
13 pages ; The aim of this paper is to show how the paradigm of disaster resilience may help reorienting urban planning policies in order to mitigate various types of risks, thanks to carefully thought action on heritage and conservation practices. In spite of preserved traces of catastrophes and various warnings and heritage policies, there are countless examples of risk mismanagement and urban tragedies. Using resilience as a guiding concept might change the results of these failed risk mitigation policies and irrelevant disaster memory processes. Indeed, the concept of resilience deals with the complexity of temporal and spatial scales, and with partly emotional and qualitative processes, so that this approach fits the issues of urban memory management. Resilience might help underlining the complexity and the subtlety of remembrance messages, and lead to alternative paths better adapted to the diversity of risks, places and actors. However, when it is given territorial materiality, memory is almost always symbolically and politically framed and interpreted; resilience and the territorialization of memory are not ideologically neutral, but urban risk mitigation may come at that price.
