Essays on Natural Disasters

The assignment encompasses the idea of ICT and its role in national and international perspective. ICT integration in Disaster Risk Reduction is a contemporary idea. Disaster losses can be some-fold reduced if it can integrate technologies with it. ICT can serve in a broader scheme...

Hurricane Katrina struck along the gulf coast of US in 2005. In this case study objective is to get a good understanding of the devastating effect of this hurricane storm surge, damages to coastal structures, bridges and buildings surveyed along Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. During...

Anchor paper by Masturah and Muhaini (2007) uses Spiking Neural Network to predict flood by use three different algorithms with different tools which are Support Vector Machine (SVM), Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) and Dynamic Evolving Spiking Neural Network (deSNN). The objectives of this research is to...

Hurricane Florence! Hurricane Michael! I wonder what the name of the next hurricane will be. It seems we are having more and more occur every year. Why is this? Maybe global warming could explain the more extreme weather we are seeing. I remember hurricane Harvey...

Today almost all the major organizations and professions have a code of ethics outlined that they follow. The purpose of ethics and code of conduct is to promote ethical behavior by following established compliances. The enforcement of these compliances is generally difficult to enforce and...

Have you had occurrences, in your environment or somewhere close to you that turned out to be nothing short of disastrous? And are these occurrences as a result of nature or are they caused by the different activities of humans? Environmental disasters refers to those...

An individual that calls San Diego home should be mostly concerned with a magnitude 7. 1 on the offshore portion of the Rose Canyon Fault. Not only is an earthquake concerning for anyone but someone who resides in San Diego should be concerned because this...