Mumbai has been a constantly developing, globally engaged city over the past 150 years. In the last 25 years, it has made a quick economic change from trade to services, and has extended its national and cross-border roles. Mumbai's global significance is noticeable in that it is:
• By a wide margin the most globalized city in South Asia. In a region of 1.5 billion people, it is the most internationalized economy, the major corporate headquarters, a centre for institutional leadership, and the principle goal for foreign investment and joint endeavours. It is likewise home to the airport with the most international travellers, the busiest port framework, and the two biggest provincial stock exchange where Indian firms are promoted.
• A centre for smaller businesses with national and worldwide reach, incorporating into the design, fashion, tourism and jewellery
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Building conditions, and low incomes that do not allow the city to improve building conditions to the level required, nor to better develop and fund disaster preparation. This proposes that a reinforcing spiral could emerge for this set of issues, where increasing population comes together with sea-level rise and a stressed economy to further damage already weak buildings, undermine efforts to improve disaster preparedness and build coastal armaments; and these, in turn, further erode the economy while sea-level rise marches on. The informal coping systems are expected to help reduce vulnerabilities to some degree for both sets of issues. Mumbai’s overall vulnerability appears to be high. While the city is relatively wealthy compared to the rest of India, and it does have an elaborate disaster management plan in
They found that various socio-demographic predictors of flood risk impact the difference across flood zone categories. The main residents in inland flood zones are non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic, while coastal flood zones have more higher median income and housing value residents. I considered the study a valuable reference for future flood hazard research and comprehensive public policy making. Social groups with higher vulnerability also tends to stay instead of moving away, for they do not have the affordability for moving to other neighborhood, giving up what they have and almost start from scratch. Thus, they are actually the group of people that suffers the most and paying the most towards natural events. It is also important for the government to create a official help system to improve their resilience.
The Haitian government’s lack of preparedness for earthquakes despite the fact that earthquakes are common to the region is indicative of the governments inability and lack of resources to properly plan and protect it’s population against natural disasters. This lack of preparedness is not an isolated incident. Prior to the disaster, the World Bank and others were working with the Haitian government to incorporate disaster risk management into Haiti’s development strategy and to develop its capacity for disaster response. This capacity building was in its early stages of development when the earthquake hit, on January 12, 2010, and was mainly focused on hurricanes, which are the most common cause of natural disaster on the island (Margesson, 2010, p. 4).
Gene understands that the story does not end with just the damages but also what it contributes to the future. It has brought with it new measures in structural development, social relationships and insurance holding. It is a major step to the lessening of the impact of future disasters.
...fited from the integration of the other’s since Erikson’s approach integrated the key aspect of response to changing conditions, which is something the city of Chicago desperately needed to work on. And Klinenberg’s approach integrated the key aspect of construction as a public event, which, media coverage is something, the Buffalo creek flood lacked. The themes derived from both authors approaches; historical groundwork, relationship to land, choices we make, problematic development, media coverage and physical/social vulnerability allow us to generate knowledge on the loss of community and production of disaster within the social world. Although, natural disasters are inevitable, many people see them in different ways but both of these authors and approaches offer citizens take accountability and learn the degree of lessons in order to be prepared for the future.
By the late sixteenth century the British East India Company had established trade posts in Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, dominating vast areas in India and southeast Asia . Although traders saw the potential for cheap labor and raw materials India held, they were...
New Orleans is a city located in the ground between Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain. The city was original settled on the high ground, however, since 1900s, the city start sinking. Today, more than 50 percent of the city area is below sea level. The reason of the sinking is still in debating, man-made floodwalls and levees are believed the main causes. Land loss is also a serious problem. The coach area already lost about 2,000 squares since 1930’s and today it loses 16 squares every year. Moreover, New Orleans is in a hurricane-prone area. All those elements make the city so vulnerable to flooding. Hurricane Katrina is one of the most horrible floods. 1,833 people were killed during the storm and more than 1.5 million in Louisiana were forced to evacuate.
Kathmandu aims to have a balanced global cotton production for the betterment of environment, industry and the workers by producing better cotton as sustainable commodity. This is reason it adopted organic farming which does not use fertilisers and has been certified by Fairtrade. So, to this case Systems thinking and mental models were used to tackle this issue.
When we analyse this rich culture with the globalization point of view, we can find many punch holes of westernization and mixing of other traits and cultures into our beautifully woven blanket. Let us closely analyse the impacts of globalization on Indian culture:
...rs and of local infrastructure. It also promotes the technological progress, environmental protection activities, and the financial sector reorganization. The development and restructuring of these fields are prerequisites for the increased traffic of local and international tourists.
Chennai has become an important destination for trade and tourism, in recent years. It has evoked as a city with tremendous potential for industrial growth because of its economic viability and available infrastructure. The State Government Departments are geared towards increasing trade and commerce links with other countries and also developing greater industrial growth. The entire boom in the trade and business of Chennai city accounts largely for its rapidly growing population. More businesses and job opportunities in the city lure people from in and around Chennai and settle in here. Major multinationals have already set up their branch offices in Chennai, leading to more people being hired by these companies. So, the population of Chennai has grown rapidly in the last 20 years, due to major industrialization and tremendous growth (Census of India, 2011).
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Providing relief for costal disaster has always been a problem. Getting the money to pay for the property damage especially in developing nations is hard. However for developing nations it can undo years of progress. This is an even more frighting thing since natural desasters are becoming more frequent in southern Mediterranean and middle east. There was an increase from three a year in 1980 to more than 13 in 2006. The increase is not likely to stop soon and developing nations will not be able to compete with nature.
Sassen, S. "The Global City: introducing a Concept." Brown Journal of World Affairs. 11.2 (2005): 40. Print.
Global cities are key command areas in the organization of the world economy, acting as a focus for trade flows and world finance and containing the principal marketplaces for the leading industries. These cities hold major corporate headquarters of TNCs, international banks and international division of labour (Macionis & Plummer 2012). Almost all of the world’s finance is controlled by twenty-five of these cities, with New York, London and Tokyo emerging as the three most powerful centres of world finance. But although these cities are the residences of large corporations and international systems of finance, they also have an increasing number of poor people. In Global cities, there is a sharp c...