poverty. It explains why people in urban areas are forced to live on hills that are prone to landslide or why people settle near volcanoes or rivers that are invariably flood their banks. Other causative features are population explosion‚ rapid urbanization‚ environmental degradation and lack of awareness and information. There are 31 types of disasters. But mainly disasters fall into two major categories – manmade and hand of god. MAN-MADE DISASTERS are the result of human intent‚ error or as
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Econ 155 Homework #1 October 2‚ 2014 Upload your answers (in PDF format) to the assignments tab on bSpace by 11:55pm on Thursday‚ October 9th. Please include your UID in the file name‚ and in your answers identify yourself both by your full name and UID. Answer the questions below. There are 25 regular points‚ and‚ in addition‚ there is an optional extra credit question at the end‚ worth an additional 5 points. 1. The Bay Area has a history of producing innovations at a much faster rate
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Making the New Indonesia Work for the Poor - Chapter 4 Making Growth for the Poor Karina Mahirda – 311380 Growth is essential for poverty reduction. However‚ growth may bring about one of two things; more equality or more inequality. The current pattern of growth in Indonesia (that leads to a widening inequality) could mean that the government will fail to hit its poverty headcount target by 8.3% by 2009. Looking at the recent past (past 10 years)‚ there are 2 key pathways through which households
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is the “Flappers”‚ though were considered the new breed of women‚ they were emotionally strong and they did not allow the men to dominate them. During the 1920’s strength and independence is key. Lastly‚ another great thing about the 1920’s was urbanization the strong change that people from rural area to the large metropolitan like setting. In the big cities many Americans could earn a decent living‚ rather than working in farm and only warning about four dollars an hour. The 1920’s was a time where
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Prior to the 18th century‚ women were seldom treated as equal to men. In the age of the Renaissance‚ the debate about women began to emerge. The debate about women entailed conversations among writers and thinkers that discussed women’s qualities and their role in society. At the time of the Renaissance‚ misogyny was common. There were many men that pinned women as devious and demanding‚ as a result of propaganda spreading after the recent creation of the printing press. There were many illustrations
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Civilisation GB The following text is an extract from Friedrich Engels’ book The Condition of Working Class in England‚ 1845 published in 1868-69. As the title indicates us‚ this text deals with England’s condition after the Industrial Revolution. Indeed the Industrial Revolution brought many changes in the industry of the country but also in social terms. This revolution made
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Summary: Coastal megacities are encountering a number of challenges and risks in different aspects such as social and economic aspect because of their geographical position. The problems facing in coastal megacities may have tremendous effect on the whole world as a result of globalization. Therefore the global are recommended to cooperate together to discuss appreciate solutions of the problems. The challenges and risks in coastal megacities can be categorized into mainly three aspects: socio-political
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Bangladesh: A Land of Climate Change‚ Migration and Vulnerability M. Mizanur Rahman Climate change is nothing to be seen in the open eye rather it is an issue of observation and understanding. With some macroeconomic analysis‚ it has been shown a number of times that climatic change will have the impact on both the level and growth of the Gross Domestic Production (GDP) especially in the poor countries. But the micro-economic analysis of individuals gives birth to a more serious scenario when
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(2012 est.) | Birth rate | 22.53 births/1‚000 population (2012 est.) | Death rate | 5.71 deaths/1‚000 population (July 2012 est.) | Net migration rate | -1.04 migrant(s)/1‚000 population (2012 est.) | Urbanization | urban population: 28% of total population (2010) rate of urbanization: 3.1% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.) | Major cities - population | DHAKA (capital) 14.251 million; Chittagong 4.816 million; Khulna 1.636 million; Rajshahi 853‚000 (2009) | Sex ratio | at birth: 1
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so that we could all live in a safe and protected environment. 1. Deforestation: Issue- Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests/trees in order to make the land available for other uses. Reasons- Agricultural activities‚ logging‚ urbanization‚ desertification of land‚ mining‚ fires. Remedies-
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