Question

prepare a project based on common hazard

Answer 1

Hazards and disaster are very closely related and are sometimes taken as synonymous. As compared to natural hazards, natural disasters are relatively sudden and cause large scale death and loss of property. Mitigation is the effort to reduce loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters. Mitigation efforts help the people by creating safer communities and reducing loss of life and property. It can take place before, during or after a disaster. It lessens the financial impact of disasters on government and communities. Mitigation strategies can be categorises as structural and non structural.

Flood is a general an nd temporary condition where two or more acres of normally dry land or two or more properties are inundated by water or mudflow. Many conditions can result in a flood such as • Excessive rainfall • Poor natural drainage. • Landslides leading to obstruction of flow and change in the river course. • Cyclone and very intense rainfall when the El Nino effect is on a decline. Structural measures for flood include water shed management, reservoirs, building on elevated area, construction and protection of embankments, ring bunds, etc. Non-structural mitigation include mapping of flood plains and land use control, etc.

Answer 2

The following points may help you:

a. Focus on important man made disasters like dropping of atom bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

b. How it caused massive destruction, its impact on human lives and environment.

c. Bhopal gas tragedy, its causes, its impact of leakage of gases on the population.

d. In case there is a bomb scare, what needs to be done.

e. Biological disasters, its impact, precautions to be taken

f. End your project with possible suggestions like it is important to have different residential and industrial zones.