1 Recognise the command terms


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Case Study - All Combined Studies
Responses
Primary Responses
Secondary Responses
- Dominican Republic offer water and medical aid.
- Rescue teams arrive from around the world.
- Temporary hospitals setup by Red Cross
- GIS was used to help in the search and rescue
- UN troops established abase to keep peace and distribute aid (only peacetime permanent base for UN)
- Poor communication delayed responses (telephone and electricity down)
- Poor management delayed responses. No-one knew who was in charge.
- Money pledge from many countries but very slow to arrive in first year.
- $13 billion given in aid. Eventually.
- 1,300 temporary camps still after 1 year
- Cash for work programme pays Haitians to clear rubble
- Farmers supported to grow crops
- Schools rebuilt Social Economic Environmental

3.5 million effected

230,000 people dead

300,000 injured

1.5 million homeless

4,000 schools destroyed

1.5 million people living in temporary camps

30,000 commercial buildings destroyed
• Many businesses destroyed.
• Damage to main clothing industry.
Airport destroyed
• Port destroyed

19 million cubic metres of rubble in Port-au-Prince
• Roads and railways destroyed
• Sea level changed in local areas flooding land







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