Knowledge: natural disasters and hazards
See Also:
- business → business services → fire and security → emergency management
- kids and teens → school time → science → the earth → natural disasters and hazards
- science → environment → energy → petroleum in the environment → oil spills
- society → future → catastrophes
- society → history → by topic → disasters
Links
- Disaster Research Center
http://www.udel.edu/DRC/ - Online publications, data, bibliographies, and other information relevant to the sociology of disasters.
- ReliefWeb: Natural Disasters
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vLND - Archived information, from 1981 to the present, about major natural disasters, including floods, droughts, fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, and cyclones, focussing on international humanitarian relief efforts. From the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
- Natural Disaster Management in India
http://www.ndmindia.nic.in/ - Government Department of Agriculture and Cooperation information resource, including reports on recent and current disasters and information on management initiatives.
- CBS News Disaster Links
http://www.cbsnews.com/digitaldan/disaster/disasters.shtml - Information about a variety of manmade and natural disaster-related websites. Quick reference and access to realtime data.
- HazNet
http://www.haznet.org/ - Provides information on coastal natural hazards (such as hurricanes and shoreline erosion), hazard planning, and things that can be done to reduce personal and economic losses. From U.S. National Sea Grant College Program.
- A Procedure to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Two Watch Warning Systems
http://www.udel.edu/SynClim/noaa.htm - Notes from this workshop on the effectiveness of heat related health watch systems.
- Urban Survival Tools
http://www.urbansurvivaltools.com/ - Natural disaster information, probability, statistics links and other information. Also provides survival kits and other survival products
- American Experience: Fatal Flood
http://www.pbs.org/amex/flood/ - Companion site to the PBS documentary about the 1927 flooding of the Mississippi River. Includes timeline, maps, profiles of people and events, teacher's guide, and info about the film.
- Cyclone of 1896 St. Louis, Missouri
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Garage/9537/cyclone.html - Photographic views of damage caused by cyclone of May 27, 1896.
- Why the US Is Becoming More Vulnerable to Natural Disasters
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/articles/eisvink.html - Despite increases in what we know about natural disasters and how to protect ourselves against them, population growth continues along the coasts, where loss of life and property from these disasters are greatest.
- National Climatic Data Center
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/reports/weather-events.html - Severe weather records and natural disaster links.
- Societal Aspects of Weather
http://www.ucar.edu/res_sci/societal-impacts.html - Organization which measures the impact of weather on people.
- Storm Events
http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/wwcgi.dll?wwEvent~Storms - Storm database with records of US storms and tornados by county.
- Forces of Nature
http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/ - Educational information about natural phenomena and different natural disasters. Includes information about the causes of disasters as well as lists of the worst recorded type of each disaster.
- FEMA: United States Earthquakes
http://www.fema.gov/hazard/earthquake/usquakes.shtm - Maps and statistics from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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