Compare and contrast mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery in 2 developed versus 2 developing nations when faced with a disaster. 

Assignment Description:
Write an essay (min 1000 words not counting your Reference List). Your essays should be well-organized. DO NOT DIVIDE THE ESSAY BY SECTIONS, THE ESSAY DISCUSSION SHOULD FLOW BETWEEN PARAGRAPHS.
THIS IS AN ACADEMIC ESSAY NOT AN OPINION PIECE. Support your points with class readings and examples from case studies. Do not simply list everything there is on the readings, explain your reasoning and support it with course readings/slides/lectures.
Use a Minimum 6 sources from class, there is no maximum amount. For your core 6 sources you can only use 1 multimedia source (videos), the remaining 5 must be class provided articles. You can use more multimedia sources and even external articles to supplement (not replace) the core 6 class sources.

Assignment Specifications (Graded)
Create a doc or docx file. Times New Roman, Font Size 12, SINGLE SPACE. 1 Inch margins.
Identify the Topic you chose to answer, name, date and class in a separate title page. No abstract, index, pictures or graphs allowed. This is an essay it does not have sections. The ideas should flow from paragraph to paragraph.
No lengthy introductions, you can start your essay with a simple statement of about 50 words maximum and then go straight for the answers to the questions. No separate conclusions or closing statements allowed, these tend to be redundant.
THIS IS NOT AN OPINION ESSAY so use paraphrasing of class readings and support this paraphrasing with APA in text citations, check the APA guides provided on the folder in the course modules.
Example: Citing in text means to paraphrase and credit your sources (Brown, 2012).
NO “direct quotes”, paraphrase and reference your source in APA in text citations. All your text must be ORIGINAL.
Include reference list at the end, in APA style and alphabetical order.
Spell-check and re-read your responses, grammar and composition will be graded. Quality writing is part of your grade.

PROMPT
In this class we have looked into disaster situations affecting both developed (US, Korea, Japan, your case study?) and developing countries (India, Philippines, Myanmar, Haiti, Nepal, your case study?). Select TWO developed and TWO developing countries from class. (Total of FOUR cases from the semester)
2.a Compare and contrast mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery in 2 developed versus 2 developing nations when faced with a disaster. Based on the disasters we studied, what seem to be the differences between developed and developing cases? What are the similarities between the four cases? (700 words minimum)
2.b Is socioeconomic development the biggest challenge for disaster resilient communities? Are developed nations always safe? Identify realistic ways to help developing countries be more resilient? Having more economic resources is an obvious solution but not easy to achieve, think beyond having more money. Provide examples to support your claims. (300 words minimum)