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Matt Podbury

Emergency Response Team - EPDM - 2 views

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  • Matt Podbury on 30 Apr 10
     
    Short, Medium and Long Term Responses to Hazards.
Richard Allaway

Volcano warning: Australian eruption 'overdue' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corp... - 1 views

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  • Richard Allaway on 24 Sep 09
     
    A Melbourne geologist is warning that Australia is long overdue for a volcanic eruption and he says emergency authorities need to be better prepared.
Richard Allaway

The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast: Amazo... - 0 views

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  • Richard Allaway on 10 Jul 11
     
    Book examines in a brilliant narrative the long-term and short-term causes, successful and unsuccessful responses to Hurricane Katrina along the U. S. Gulf Coast and in New Orleans.  Include a special focus on especially vulnerable populations. [Submitted by John Jordan]
Richard Allaway

Tribe returns to old ways on Pinatubo / 1991 eruption drove Aeta away from volcano - 0 views

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shared by Richard Allaway on 10 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Tarukan was home to hundreds of families of a Filipino tribe called the Aeta
  • 50 villagers opted to come home to relive a lifestyle they thought they would never see again.
  • The 50,000-member tribe has long survived along the slopes of the volcano by fishing, hunting wild boar, deer, birds and mountain cats and farming beans, rice, sweet potatoes and root crops.
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  • Forced to flee to the lowland valleys below, the Aeta learned a life far different from their mountain habitat. They shed traditional loincloths, sarongs and bare feet for Western dress and shoes, ate from canned foods donated by relief agencies and slept in cramped resettlement centers that resembled refugee camps.
  • In Tarukan, they have built bamboo huts and cleared fields for crops. Papaya and mango trees have been planted. Wild boar and birds are coming back and the acidity of the soil has declined, allowing farmers to resume planting.
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