Geography 2152F/G Lecture Notes - Disaster Risk Reduction, Perfect Disaster, Natural Disaster
1 Jun 2013
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Between 300-500 million cases of malaria in the world each year. More than 1 million deaths (90% in africa mostly children) After an extensive ddt program, there were only 17 cases in 1963. Ddt is one of the only affordable tools against mosquitoes. Perception is one of the central themes of the class, be sure to keep it in mind at all times. Estimates are that over 2000 people have died and over 1,000,000 homes have been destroyed. Un estimates that over 22,000,000 people have been injured or are homeless. That exceeds the combines total of the haitian earthquake, indian ocean tsunami, and the kashmir earthquake. At one point 1/5 of pakistan was under water. The un sec- general asked for 450 million- half has been approved. ** need to know what happened, how it happened and why it"s important**
