GGR378H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Correctional Service Of Canada, Canadian Space Agency, Disaster Assistance Response Team
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Hint for the test study the institutional responses. Channel modifications: deepening, straightening, widening, etc. Channel training structures: rip-rap, gabions, jetties, etc, human interventions: modifying surfaces (affects whether or not water can reach the channel and how fast. Example building parking even, bulding buildings) (next slides: channelization (changing the channel. Withdrawal of groundwater & other fluids subsidence: channel modification is undertaken for: Affects temp, turbidity, velocity, depth of water. Changes the q = v x csa relationship; invalidates historical records & statistical analysis of floods. U. s. federal emergency management agency (1979: part of office of homeland security (2003) Bascially fema runs the show and all the federal funding runs through fema. Institutional response: canada: all levels of government, coordinated by , public safety and emergency preparedness canada (2003) Natural disasters, law enforcement, terrorism, nuclear, pandemics, etc. Coordinating role (from canadian forces to natural resources canada to health canada to rcmp ) Www. safecanada. ca or www. psepc-sppcc. gc. ca: disaster assistance response team.
