PPT-Hurricanes, Climate, and Culture: How We Cope with Natural Disasters

Kerry Emanuel Lorenz Center MIT Walter Orr Roberts 19151990 Dedicated to Science in the Service of Society Program Hurricanes and Hurricane Disasters Hurricane Impacts Societal Response to Hurricanes. May 2014. Importance of Organizational Factors: improving quality of service and retention of staff. 2. “The quality of services provided in child welfare is assumed to be only as good as the competence of the professional child welfare employees that provide those services.” (. . Chapter 18 . The Future: Where Do We Go From Here?. We Are The Problem. Problems arise when people put themselves where they can be impacted by major natural events. Building in the floodplain. Building in lahar channels. Statistics 2011. 332 Natural Disasters were recorded. Killed 30,773 people. 244.7 million victims of these disasters. Costs $366.1 billion. China, the United States, the Philippines, India and Indonesia constitute together the top 5 countries that are most frequently hit by natural disasters. . Cyclone . Thunderstorm. Wild fire. What is the connection between these pictures?. Tsunami . Land slide. What is the connection between these pictures?. Floods. Drought . Answers. Cyclone Thunderstorms Wildfire. How does this impact on continuity planning?. Welcome to Queensland Rail. Housekeeping. Toilets. Drinks. Evacuation procedures. Feedback and Continuity Forum . information. Safety Share. The socialisation of risk. October 27/28 2010. Extreme Weather. Hurricane Ivan. over Gulf, Sept. 2004. Source: NOAA. Definitions. Climate Change. : . . Changes in climate of the past, present or future associated with . natural . LD 1-1. Training Objective. Task: Create a positive organizational climate and culture. Condition: Given a block of instruction based on ADRP 6-22, Chapter 7 and “. Understanding Your Organization’s Culture” by Kristina . Earthquakes, Tsunamis. Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Ice Storms. Volcano's. H1N1, . Zika. Virus. Forest Fires. Plague of Locusts. Joel. I. Something To Tell Your Children About . 1-4. Hear 2a. Question 2b. Prof. Dr. Jan D. Reinhardt. 1,2. 1. Institute . for. . Disaster. Management . and. . Reconstruction. . of. . Sichuan. University . and. Hong Kong . Polytechnic. University, Chengdu, China. 2 . WP2.1 . & WP2.2 Development of master curricula in WB . HEIs. Prof. Giuseppe Tito . Aronica. University of Messina – Department of Engineering, . ITALY. Slavisa Trajkovic, M. i. lan Gocic. University of Nis, Serbia. Unit Four Emergency Management in the United States This unit describes emergency management in the United States It defines the four phases of emergency management as well as other important te Kerry Emanuel. Lorenz Center. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT. Program. Overview of hurricanes. Basic theory of hurricanes. What have hurricanes been like in the past, and how will they be affected by global warming?. Tornadoes. A tornado is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of the earth with the base of a cumulonimbus cloud.. Tornadoes come in many different shapes and sizes but are in form of a funnel. . There narrow end touches the earth and has a cloud of dust and debris that flows with it. . Word Bank. Bioterrorism. Carbon monoxide. Epidemiology. Evacuation. Outbreak. Public Health. study of the distribution and control of health-related issues, including diseases . leaving an area to escape a potential disaster.