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Analyzing, Interpreting and Communicating about Environmental Data

The purpose of this assignment is to give you some experience analyzing, interpreting and communicating about environmental data.

The spreadsheet contains daily PM2.5 readings from three monitoring sites in Salt Lake County. Each site’s data are found in a separate worksheet. I have created variables for the month (1-12), day (1-31) and day of week (1-7, 1=Sunday).

1. For each site, create a graph showing a time series for PM2.5 values for each day. Have them on separate graphs or you won’t be able to see a thing.
2. Create ONE table that compares the monthly mean, min, max, std dev of the PM2.5 measurements, as well as the number of days where the PM2.5 measurement was >=30. Include separate results for each of the 3 sites, as well as for all three sites combined (all on one table). Please include the mean, min, max, and std dev for the entire year as well.
3. Create a graph comparing the monthly means for one site.
4. Create a graph showing the relationship between PM2.5 and the AQI for one of the sites.
5. Create a graph showing the relationship between PM2.5 at site 1 and site 3.
6. Write a short explanation of these results, one paragraph per table/figure (3 – 6 sentences). Include a description of the result and reason(s) for the observed patterns. Write on the same level and style as public-oriented documents, such as government educational materials. Refer to the Tables and Figures appropriately.

The graphs and table should be as clear as possible so the reader can understand everything about the graph without and other information. Please have the tables, graphs and narrative in a single word document. Please paste figures as pictures, not linked to the original spreadsheet.

Please note that all formatting requirements described in the syllabus need to be followed. Each graph needs to have a title, starting with “Figure x” where x is the number of the figure. Make them as pretty as possible, but don’t sweat making them perfect. Tables should be labeled “Table x. …….”. Each Figure and Table should be ‘stand-alone’, meaning that a reader should be able to understand and interpret the table of figure without referring to any text.

Submit: Word Doc using Times New Roman, 12pt, double spaced. Use APA style citations.

Disaster Risk, Resilience, Adaptation and Sustainability

  1. Critically evaluate a range of conceptual views and theories aligned to disaster risk, resilience, adaptation, development and sustainability.
  2. Critically evaluate the roles of strategy, conventions, agreements, policy and structures aligned to the DRR, resilience, climate change and sustainable development contexts.
  3. Assess the challenges resulting from global change and the range of response options open to leaders in the sector to minimise impacts and maximise opportunities.
  4. Analyse the DRR, climate adaptation, development and sustainability strategies of key organisations, for holism and good practice and make recommendations to improve approaches and outputs.

Assignment 

You are to write one essay/paper (3000 words) on the following please:

Please select an organisation/agency such as the World Bank, GFDRR, UNISDR, NGO/INGOs. Please critically evaluate your selected organisation’s strategic and organisational development (i.e challenges, successes, overlaps) in terms of disaster risk reduction, resilience, climate change adaptation and sustainability.

 Then select a large scale disaster such as 2002 European Floods, 1999 Marmara earthquake, 2019 Hurricane Dorian, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, 2011 Sendai earthquake. Please discuss how your chosen institution responded to the changing needs of disaster management studies after the occurrence of that large scale disaster. Your discussion should include any policy changes, contribution to sustainable development, creating resilient communities, risk reduction strategies, mitigation plans, adaptation introduced by your organisation/agency.

 

Instructions:

 

  • You should draw on relevant policy and practice, and academic theory as necessary.
  • In order to counteract any practice of students submitting work that is not entirely their own, all submission will be analysed via Turnitin software and subject to analysis by subject experts. All students must be able to present a full draft prior to any proof reader corrections. Course/Module teams may request an oral viva for students where they suspect the work submitted is not entirely their own.

First Law of Geography

Please describe in your own words the First Law of Geography and provide an example that you have observed in your daily life.

Save and submit it in a word document.