The Sanitary Engineer in Hurricane Floods

The Sanitary Engineer in Public Housing *

Sanitary engineers do not yet realize the important part they are destined to play in the development and management of low-rent housing. Less than a score of American engineers in public health have had day-to-day work in the public housing program, and not all of these have been privileged to participate directly in the business of planning, building, and operating low-rent dwellings. Public ...

Hurricane-Driven Patterns of Clonality in an Ecosystem Engineer: The Caribbean Coral Montastraea annularis

K-selected species with low rates of sexual recruitment may utilise storage effects where low adult mortality allows a number of individuals to persist through time until a favourable recruitment period occurs. Alternative methods of recruitment may become increasingly important for such species if the availability of favourable conditions for sexual recruitment decline under rising anthropogen...

Disaster relief management of companion animals affected by the floods of Hurricane Floyd.

O n September 16, 1999, Hurricane Floyd caused widespread flooding through a largely rural area of North Carolina. More than 40 of 100 counties experienced some flooding (Fig 1); the most severe was in the eastern third of the state. Interstate highways and divided 4-lane US highways, as well as hundreds of state highways and local roads, were closed at multiple sites because of flooding or was...

The Sanitary Primer

Floods and Drowning Incidents by Floods

Floods as natural disasters can cause severe even fatal damages to many communities such as loss of lives and properties every year. The aim of this study is to present the risks of floods for the human life and the basic characteristics of the citizens who lose their lives as a result of floods. For this study, online archives related to flood events have been examined via search engines, “www...