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This document discusses natural disasters and their effects. It defines a natural disaster as a calamity that causes damage. Natural disasters can result in physical, economic, and ecological losses as well as post-traumatic stress. Understanding the causes of disasters is important so communities can prepare for them and control damage. Direct effects of disasters include loss of life, economic losses, and loss of vegetation, while indirect effects are threats to ecosystems, soil erosion, forced migration, and social/political unrest. Global warming is a long term effect of disasters and is caused by factors like deforestation, industrialization, fossil fuel use, intensive farming, waste disposal, and mining activities, all of which increase greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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- 1. DISASTER MANAGEMENT Prepared by Prof. Nagma Alam
- 2. What is Natural Disaster? • It is a calamity which causes damages to various things. • Causes physical, economical, ecological loss. • Post Traumatic Stress Disaster (PTSD) • Socio Cultural Perspective • Economic perspective • Political Perspective
- 3. Importance of Study of Disaster in Human Life It is important to know the cause of disaster. If we know the cause, we can prepare for it and also control the damages.
- 4. Effects of Disasters Direct Effects • Loss of Human Life • Huge economic loss • Loss of Natural Vegetation Indirect Effects • Create threat to ecosystem • Create soil erosion problem • Forced migration • Social, economical, political unrest
- 5. Long Term Effect of Natural Disaster Global Warming is the result o forest cutting
- 7. Global Warming and Climatic Change
- 8. Causes of Global Warming Deforestation : • Fast and unplanned urbanisation • CO2 in atmosphere was 0.03% • Now it is 0.04% • CO2 is a green house gas.
- 9. Causes of Global Warming Industrialisation : • Chemical industries emit huge amount of carbon particles. • Increasing air pollution.
- 10. Causes of Global Warming Use of fossil fuel : • Coal, oil, natural gas • Emits huge amount of CO2. • Increasing temperature.
- 11. Causes of Global Warming The Intensive Farming : • Green Manure – Cow dung • Emits Methane Gas • Increase temperature of atmosphere.
- 12. Causes of Global Warming Solid Waste Disposal : • Disposal methods • Landfill, incineration • Emits CO2, Methane gas.
- 13. Causes of Global Warming Mining Activities : • Getting raw material like ore • Blasting method • Tons of small particles in the air. • Green house effect