All hazards

Citation

(2005), "All hazards", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 14 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2005.07314cag.001

All hazards

Below are new or updated internet resources that Hazards Center staff have found to be informative and useful. For a more complete list, visit www.colorado.edu/hazards/resources/sites.html

All hazards

Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com/This new search service from Google is aimed at scientists and academic researchers. Google Scholar is intended to be a first stop for researchers looking for scholarly literature, such as peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts, and technical reports.

Promotion of Early Warning

www.unisdr.org/ppew/The United Nations/International Strategy for Disaster Reduction’s Platform for the Promotion of Early Warning aims to help the development of early warning and preparedness systems by advocating for better early warning systems. Visit this new web site, the start of a growing information resource on early warning systems, and sign up for their quarterly newsletter.

 Ready New York

www.nyc.gov/html/oem/html/readynewyork/ready_guide.htmlThe cornerstone of the Ready New York campaign, this comprehensive household preparedness guide offers tips and information about a wide range of potentially hazardous situations New Yorkers may face.

Societal Impacts Program

www.sip.ucar.edu/sip/The National Center for Atmospheric Research, with funding from the US Weather Research Program, has established the Societal Impacts Program to develop a dedicated focal point for gathering, assembling, coordinating, and synthesizing information on the societal impacts and economic benefits of weather information. This new site is a work-in-progress that currently includes program information as well as the preliminary framework for a Digital Library of Societal Impacts.

 Disaster Research in the Social Sciences

www.udel.edu/DRC/drc40conference/The Disaster Research Center has established this web site featuring results from its spring 2004 conference Disaster Research in the Social Sciences: Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Future Trajectories.

Operation Hope

www.operationhope.org/documents/EmergencyFinancialFirstAidKit.pdfOperation Hope offers a free Emergency Financial First Aid Kit on its web site. Designed to help Americans minimize the financial impact of a natural disaster or national emergency, this tool helps users identify and organize key financial records and serves as a quick reference to important financial documents. A Spanish version is under development.

Congressional Research Service

www.fas.org/sgp/crs/RL32631.pdfThis new report from the Congressional Research Service is entitled Critical Infrastructure and Key Assets: Definition and Identification.

Domestic Preparedness

www.domesticpreparedness.com/Integrating the professional first responder communities of fire, law enforcement, emergency medical, National Guard, and local, state, and federal governments with industry concerned with domestic preparedness is the aim of this site, which features news about grants, government, industry, people, reports, events, and more.

Pure Pursuit Intelligence Network

www.purepursuitintelnetwork.com/This web site provides relevant and timely information for the military and air defence, emergency services, and remote sensing communities. Free subscriptions to e-mail updates are also available.