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Environmental Crisis and News

Disaster and Global Emergency

Earthquakes
Epidemics
Flood and Tsunami
Wildfire


Most of us have begun to see that the party is over. The planet is in deep trouble; we had better concentrate on bailing it out.

Mary Midgley

Or: ...We may with time and luck climb back to ancient China or Peru. But the ready ores and fossil fuels are gone. Without coal there can be no Industrial Revolution; without oil no leap from steam to atom. Technology will sit forever at the bottom of a ladder from which the lower rungs are gone. And how heavily the fallen knowledge will lie upon any who hope to resurrect it!

Ronald Wright

For the South Asian earthquake and tsunami of 26 December 2004, see The Great South Asian Disaster of 26 Dec 2004; for extreme weather events, see also Severe Weather; for anthropogenic crises, see Environmental Crisis and News, especially Global Warming, and Global Peace and Security and State of the World; for the existential crisis posed by science denialism, see Corporate Crime and Accountability and Pseudoscience: Content and Critique, especially Confusionism: Deceit, Denial, and the Policy of Abuse.

Accidental rewilding: Why humanitarian disasters are good for nature (George Monbiot, Aeon Magazine, 4 Jun 2013)

After Katrina: Washed Away? : Justice in New Orleans (Caterina Gouvis Roman et al., Urban Institute, Washington, DC, 28 Aug 2007)

The Aftermath of 9/11: Effect of Intensity and Recency of Trauma on Outcome (Barbara Ganzel et al., APA Emotion 7(2):227-38, 2007) PDF

After the storm: pathologies of decision-making in New Orleans (Ray Taras, Policy Options, Institute for Research on Public Policy, Montreal, Dec 2005-Jan 2006) PDF

AirDisaster.Com (Chris Kilroy & Darryl Morrell)

Air Disaster Support Links

The Alan Shawn Feinstein International Famine Center
(Tufts University)

AlertNet (Reuter Foundation)

ALNAP (Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action, London)

Altered Standards of Care in Mass Casualty Events: Bioterrorism and Other Public Health Emergencies (US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Apr 2005)

American College of Emergency Physicians (Irving, Texas)

The American Experience | Meltdown at Three Mile Island
(Chana Gazit et al., PBS, 1999)

American Red Cross

American Red Cross - Disaster Services

American Red Cross Disaster Newsroom

American Red Cross: World News

Analysis of Ready.gov (Federation of American Scientists)

An Analytical Review of Selected Data Sets on Natural Disasters and Impacts (Liz Tschoegl et al., Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Mar 2006) PDF

Anatomy of a Crisis: U.S.-Uzbekistan Relations, 2001-2005 (John C. K. Daly et al., Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Silk Road Studies Program, Uppsala, Feb 2006) PDF

Animal Welfare Disaster/Emergency Response Resources (Petfinder.com)

Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report: 2004
(AON Corporation, Chicago, 2005) PDF

Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report: 2005
(Aon Corporation, Chicago, 6 Feb 2006)

Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report: 2006
(AON Corporation, Chicago, Dec 2006) PDF

Another Crisis in the Making! How the Subprime Mortgage Industry is Sandbagging Katrina-affected Homeowners (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, Sep 2005) PDF

An Approach for Assessing Human Health Vulnerability and Public Health Interventions to Adapt to Climate Change (Kristi L. Ebi et al., Environmental Health Perspectives 114:12, Dec 2006)

Ash and Lightning Above an Icelandic Volcano [Eyjafjallajoekull] (Astronomy Picture of the Day, 19 Apr 2010)

Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (Bangkok)

Asian Disaster Reduction Center (Urban Disaster Research Institute)

-- Latest Disaster Information

Asia-Pacific Daily Report (Center of Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance)

Asia-Pacific Natural Hazards and Vulnerabilities Atlas
(Pacific Disaster Center, Kihei, Hawaii)

An Assessment of Volcanic Threat and Monitoring Capabilities in the United States: Framework for a National Volcano Early Warning System (John W. Ewert et al., USGS, Apr 2005) PDF

Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards (NASA)

@RiskRescue Medical Crisis Response System
(David Naysmith, Shawnigan Lake, BC)

ATSDR - Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
(U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)

August 14, 2003 Blackout Investigation (North American Electric Reliability Council)

The August 14, 2003 Blackout One Year Later: Actions Taken in the United States and Canada To Reduce Blackout Risk (Canada-U.S. Power System Outage Task Force, 13 Aug 2004)

August 2003 Blackout (U.S. Department of Energy)

Avalanche Center (Salt Lake, Utah)

The Baseline Scenario: What happened to the global economy and what we can do about it (blog, Simon Johnson & James Kwak)

BBC Online: Horizon, Supervolcanoes (BBC, 3 Feb 2000)

Before and After Disasters: Federal Funding for Cultural Institutions (FEMA/National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC, 1992, updated) PDF

Benfield Hazard Research Centre (University College London)

The Big Dry (Emily Sohn, Science News Online, 27 Oct 2007)

Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters (NOAA National Climatic Data Center)

Blackout (CBC News Indepth, 14 Aug 2003, updated)

The Blackout History Project (George Mason University)

Blackout Hits U.S. and Canadian Cities
(EO Natural Hazards, 14 Aug 2003)

Blackout Table: Examples of Major Bulk Electric System Power Outages (North American Electric Reliability Council) PDF

Blackout 2003: How Did It Happen and Why?
(U.S. Congressional Hearing, 4 Sep 2003)

Bloodbank Locator

Bhopal (Union Carbide)

Bhopal Express (dir. Mahesh Mathai)

-- Bhopal.FM

BP internal investigation (British Petroleum, 8 Sep 2010)

Bracing the Satellite Infrastructure for a Solar Superstorm (Sten F. Odenwald & James L. Green, Scientific American 299:2:80-87, Aug 2008)

Breaking News Links & Emergency Resources (Madeline Begun Kane)

BrightEarth (Declan Butler et al.)

British Columbia Provincial Emergency Program

Broken Promises: 2 Years After Katrina (American Civil Liberties Union, 20 Aug 2007)

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge (Buckminster Fuller Institute, Brooklyn, New York)

Building an Ark for the Anthropocene (Jim Robbins, New York Times Sunday Review, 28 Sep 2014)

Bureau for Crisis Prevention & Recovery (UN Development Programme)

Canada Goes Rogue (Elizabeth May, Green Party of Canada, 11 Apr 2013)

Canada Landslide Project - Interactive Map Viewer
(Natural Resources Canada)

Canada-U.S. Power System Outage Task Force, Final Report on the August 14, 2003 Blackout in the United States and Canada: Causes and Recommendations (Natural Resources Canada, 5 Apr 2004)

Canadian Animal Assistance Team (CAAT)

Canadian Avalanche Association

Canadian Blood Services

Canadian Disaster Database (Public Safety Canada)

Canadian Red Cross

CAPS - Communication Alert Planning System (Space Environment Technologies Space Weather Operations)

Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA)

CASEL Resources for Handling Trauma and Crises
(Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning)

Causes of the August 14th Blackout in the United States and Canada (Canada-U.S. Power System Outage Task Force Interim Report, 12 Dec 2003)

CBC News Indepth: Search and Rescue (CBC News Online)

CCNet (ed. Benny Peiser, Liverpool John Moores University)

CDC Emergency Preparedness & Response Site (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta)

CDC Natural Disasters (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta)

Center for Disaster Preparedness (University of Alabama)

Center for International Disaster Information (Arlington, Virginia)

Center for the Study of Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes
(Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge)

Center of Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance (Tripler AMC, Hawaii)

Chernobyl - The Accident and Progress Since 1986

The Chernobyl Accident 20 Years On: An Assessment of the Health Consequences and the International Response (Keith Baverstock & Dillwyn Williams, Environmental Health Perspectives, Online 30 May 2006) PDF

Chernobyl and Nuclear Safety - Internet Resources
(Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University)

Chernobyl.com (M. A. Markham)

The Chernobyl Disaster (Kym Horsell)

Chernobyl's Legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts (The Chernobyl Forum, International Atomic Energy Agency, 5 Sep 2005) PDF

Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster (Ross Visscher, UK)

Chernobyl Page (Najmedin Meshkati)

Chernobyl Page (Texas Tech University)

Chernobyl's Legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts (The Chernobyl Forum, International Atomic Energy Agency, 5 Sep 2005) PDF

Chernobyl - Tschernobyl - Information (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Bern)

Chernobyl 20 Years Later: An IAEA In Focus Series
(International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna)

Children's Literature on Floods and Natural Disasters (Lynn Blinn Pike, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

Children, Stress, and Natural Disasters (ICES)

Children, Stress, and Natural Disasters (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

Chile mine - Copiapó, 5 August - 13 October 2010 (BBC News)

CIAG Critical Incident Accident Group

CINDI Center for Integration of Natural Disaster Information (USGS)

Citizen Corps (FEMA)

Click2Disasters (AwesomeStories.com)

Clouds of injustice: Bhopal disaster 20 years on
(Amnesty International, 2004) PDF

CMHS Emergency Services (Center for Mental Health)

Coal Mining History Resource Centre
(Ian Winstanley, UK)

Collapse of the Kolka Glacier (Rebecca Lindsey, NASA Earth Observatory, 9 Sep 2004)

-- Kolka Glacier Before Collapse (NASA Earth Observatory)

Combat Duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mental Health Problems, and Barriers to Care (Charles W. Hoge et al., New England Journal of Medicine 351(1):13-22, 1 Jul 2004)

Combating Terrorism: FEMA Continues to Make Progress in Coordinating Preparedness and Response (GAO Report to Congressional Requesters, Mar 2001) PDF

The Coming Health Crisis (Samuel S. Myers & Aaron Bernstein, The Scientist 25:1:32, 1 Jan 2011)

Common Ground Collective (Gulf Coast Hurricane Relief)

Comparative Risk Assessment of the Burden of Disease from Climate Change (Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum & Rosalie Woodruff, Environmental Health Perspectives 114:12, Dec 2006)

Considering the Effects of a Catastrophic Terrorist Attack (Charles Meade & Roger C. Molander, RAND Corporation, 2006)

Copenhagen Consensus (Environmental Assessment Institute)

Coping with the Aftermath of a Disaster (John Tassey, APA HelpCenter)

Coping with Disasters (MEDLINEplus)

Coping with a National Tragedy (National Association of School Psychologists)

Council on Global Issues

CRED - Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters
(Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels)

CRID - Regional Disaster Information Center Latin America and the Caribbean (Pan American Health Organization)

Crises, What Crises? (Nauro F. Campos et al., Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Jul 2006) PDF

Crisis Communications Guide & Toolkit
(National Education Association, US)

Crisis in Iraq: Student Discussion Guide (Education World)

Crisis in the Middle East (Marina S. Ottaway et al., Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 20 Jul 2006)

Crisis Mentality: Why sudden emergencies attract more funds than do chronic conditions, and how nonprofits can change that (Keith Epstein, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2006) PDF

Crisis Prevention & Recovery (UNDP Distaster Reduction Unit)

Crisis Relief (Network for Good)

Crisisweb: The International Crisis Group's On-line System

Critical Infrastructure Protection: Challenges and Efforts to Secure Control Systems (U.S. General Accounting Office, Mar 2004) PDF

Cuba -- Weathering the Storm: Lessons in Risk Reduction From Cuba
(Oxfam America, Boston, 2004) PDF

DART (Canadian Forces Disaster Assistance Response Team)

DART (CF Joint Operations Group)

Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma (University of Washington, Seattle)

David Baldwin's Trauma Information Pages

Dead Ahead: Similar Early Warning Signals of Change in Climate, Ecosystems, Financial Markets, Human Health (US National Science Foundation Press Release 09-161, 2 Sep 2009)

Dealing With the Effects of Trauma (Mary Ellen Copeland, U.S. National Mental Health Information Center)

The Decline of the National Disaster Medical System (U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, Dec 2005) PDF

Deep chill: The Global Seed Vault can anchor us in deep time (Colin Dickey, Aeon Magazine, 17 Sep 2013)

-- Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Oslo, Norway)

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (Curry L. Hagerty & Jonathan L. Ramseur, Congressional Research Service, 18 Jun 2010) PDF

Deepwater Horizon Response (Unified Command for the BP Oil Spill)

Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation Team Releases Final Report (BOEMRE/JIT, 14 Sep 2011)

Developing Cultural Competence in Disaster Mental Health Programs (Jean Athey & Jean Moody-Williams, National Mental Health Information Center, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2003)

Developing global climate anomalies suggest potential disease risks for 2006 - 2007 (Assaf Anyamba et al., International Journal of Health Geographics 5:60, 28 Dec 2006)

DEWA (UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment)

Didier Sornette (UCLA Earth & Space Sciences)

Directory for Disaster Reduction Institutions (Geneva)

Direct Relief International (Santa Barbara, California)

Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (DART, NASA Ames Research Center)

The Disaster Center Index Page (Anchorage)

Disaster, Hazard, Risk, and Emergency Management Research Centers (Texas A&M University Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center)

DisasterHelp.gov (FEMA)

Disaster - Helping Children Cope (NASP Center)

Disaster in Asia (CBC News Indepth, 29 Dec 2004; updated)

DisasterInfo (Pan American Health Organization)

Disaster Information Management Research Center (U.S. National Library of Medicine)

Disaster Insurance Information Office (Punta Gorda, Florida)

Disaster Links (CBS News)

Disaster Manual (DC Public Schools)

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
(American Medical Association)

Disaster Mental Health Resources (CDC)

Disaster Mitigation and Preparedness in a Changing Climate
(James P. Bruce et al., Emergency Preparedness Canada, 1999)

Disaster Mitigation for Sustainable Livelihood Programme
(DiMP, University of Cape Town)

Disaster Mitigation Planning Assistance (Michigan State University Libraries)

Disaster News Network (Reporting Disaster Response)

Disaster Pathfinder (Sue Broberg)

Disaster Relief (American Red Cross)

Disaster relief: Canada's rapid response team
(CBC News Indepth)

Disaster Relief 2.0: Tech Tools Help Focus Haiti Resources (Nathan Hodge, Danger Room, Wired, 20 Jan 2010)

Disaster Research Gopher (SFU)

Disaster Response and Appointment of a Recovery Czar: The Executive Branch's Response to the Flood of 1927 (Kevin R. Kosar, CRS Report for Congress, 25 Oct 2005) PDF

Disasters and Humanitarian Assistance (Pan American Health Organization)

Disasters and Tragedies (CBC Archives)

Disasters Emergency Committee (London)

Disasters: A Special Report (US National Science Foundation)

Discovery.com News -- Drought

Drought (NASA Science Visualization Studio)

Drought: The Creeping Disaster (NASA Earth Observatory)

Drought Drives Decade-Long Decline in Plant Growth (Kathryn Hansen, NASA Earth Science News, 19 Aug 2010)

Drought Information Center (NOAA)

Drought Resources and Information (Utah State University Extension)

Drought Watch (HEWS)

Drought Watch (USGS)

Each scar is different: Does everyone who suffers trauma have PTSD? (Lynne Jones, Aeon Magazine, 22 May 2014)

Earth Alerts (FW)

EarthBrowser (Matt Giger, Lunar Software)

Earth Watch (DisasterRelief.org)

ECHO - Humanitarian Aid (EUROPA)

The economic crisis and its humanitarian impact on Europe (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Oct 2009) PDF

Effective World Government Will Be Needed to Stave Off Climate Catastrophe (Gary Stix, Observations, Scientific American Blog Network, 17 Mar 2012)

The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Fire Fighters and EMS Responders: Final Report, June 2007 (Diane L. Elliot & Kerry S. Kuehl, International Association of Fire Chiefs, Fairfax, Virginia, 24 Sep 2007) PDF

El Niño Loss Reduction Center (FEMA)

EM-DAT | Emergency Disasters Data Base (CRED)

Emergencies (Reuters AlertNet)

Emergencies & Disasters | U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Emergencies - Transport Canada

Emergency Communications: The Emergency Alert System (EAS) and All-Hazard Warnings (Linda K. Moore & Shawn Reese, CRS Report for Congress, 2 Sep 2005) PDF

The Emergency Email Network

Emergency Food and Water Kit (Safe Guard)

Emergency Food and Water Pack (EPC)

Emergency - A Guide to the Emergency Services of the World

Emergency Information Center

Emergency Logistics - Home Page

Emergency Medical Services (Medline Plus)

Emergency Medical Services: At the Crossroads (Gail Warden et al., Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System, 2006)

Emergency Medicine Journal (BMJ Publishing Group, London)

Emergency Medicine One Year After Katrina (American College of Emergency Physicians, Aug 2006) PDF

EmergencyNet (Emergency Response and Research Institute, ERRI)

-- Disaster/Rescue Page

-- EmergencyNet News

Emergency On-Line Home Page

Emergency Preparedness (Jim & Audri Lanford, Internet ScamBusters)

Emergency Preparedness and Response Could Better Integrate Information Technology with Incident Response and Recovery (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Sep 2005) PDF

Emergency Preparedness Canada

Emergency Preparedness Checklist... Be Prepared! (PEP)

Emergency Preparedness: Guidance and General Information
(U.S. Department of Justice, Feb 2003)

Emergency Preparedness Tips (Ryan Edgerton)

Emergency Rescue Training

Emergency Services WWW Site List

Emergency-World.com

Emergi-Page (Earl Hilton)

e-Mission: Operation Montserrat (Wheeling Jesuit University)

EMWIN (Emergency Managers Weather Information Network)

The Energy Sustainability Dilemma: Powering the Future in a Finite World (J. David Hughes, Logan Club, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, 25 Jan 2008) PDF

Environmental Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident and their Remediation: Twenty Years of Experience (Chernobyl Forum Expert Group 'Environment', International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 2006) PDF

The Environmental Emergency Response System (TEERS)

Environmental Exodus: An Emergent Crisis in the Global Arena (Norman Myers with Jennifer Kent, Climate Institute, Washington, DC, 3 Aug 2005) PDF

Environmental Public Health Impacts of Disasters: Hurricane Katrina, Workshop Summary ( Lynn Goldman & Christine Coussens, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, 2007)

Envisioning a Civilization Recovery Plan (William Grassie, Metanexus, 18 Sep 2012)

EO Natural Hazards (NASA Earth Observatory)

EPIX - Emergency Preparedness Information Exchange
(Peter S. Anderson, SFU)

ESA Disaster Management (European Space Agency)

ESRI/FEMA Project Impact Hazard Site

ESSA - Emergency Social Services Association (BC)

Essential Facts About The Victims of Hurricane Katrina (Arloc Sherman & Isaac Shapiro, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 19 Sep 2005)

EU Civilian Crisis Management: The Record So Far (Christopher S. Chivvis, International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, 9 Apr 2010) PDF

European Heat Wave (EO Natural Hazards, 2003)

Evaluating the Risk of Events That Could End Civilization (Naveena Sadasivam, Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network, 19 Feb 2014)

Expect the Unexpected (Safe Guard)

Extreme Heat - National Center for Environmental Health (U.S.)

Extreme Weather Sourcebook (NCAR)

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council

Eye on the World Violent Planet Page

Facing Hazards and Disasters: Understanding Human Dimensions (Gary A. Kreps et al., U.S. National Research Council, 2006)

A fault in our design: Is technology making us vulnerable? (Colin Dickey, Aeon Magazine, 23 Jan 2014)

Facing the Freshwater Crisis (Peter Rogers, Scientific American 299:2:46-53, Aug 2008)

Factors in Food Commodity Price Increases (USDA Economic Research Service)

Factors Related to the Series of Outages on August 14, 2003
(Electric Power Research Institute, 20 Nov 2003) PDF

Fact Sheet: Safety Information for Short-Term Power Outages or "Rolling Blackouts" (American Red Cross) PDF

A Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Prepartation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina (U.S. House of Representatives, 15 Feb 2006) PDF

-- Appendices PDF

FAO Desert Locust Information Service
(Food and Agriculture Organization)

Fear, Complexity, & Environmental Management in the 21st Century (Michael Crichton, Washington Center for Complexity and Public Policy, Washington, DC, 6 Nov 2005)

Federal Disaster Recovery Programs: Brief Summaries (Mary Jordan, CRS Report for Congress, 29 Aug 2005) PDF

Federal Emergency Management and Homeland Security Organization: Historical Developments and Legislative Options (Henry B. Hogue & Keith Bea, CRS Report for Congress, 1 Jun 2006) PDF

Federalism after Hurricane Katrina: How Can Social Programs Respond to a Major Disaster? (Pamela Winston et al., Urban Institute, Washington, DC, 27 Jun 2006)

The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned
(The White House, Washington, DC, 23 Feb 2006)

-- Free Searchable Version (askSam)

FEMA (US Federal Emergency Management Agency)

-- National Situation Update

FEMA: Get Disaster Information

FEMA for Kids Homepage

-- FEMA Map Service Center

FEMA Multi-Hazard Mapping Initiative

FEMA Photo Library

FEMA -- Preparedness

FEMA RSS Feeds

FEWER - Forum on Early Warning and Early Response

FEWS Net - Famine Early Warning Systems Network (USAID)

50 Free Ivy-League Lectures on the Economy (ed. Shirl Kennedy, ResourceShelf Resource of the Week, 5 Oct 2009)

Financial Crisis for Beginners (Simon Johnson & James Kwak, The Baseline Scenario)

The Financial Crisis Timeline (Shirl Kennedy, Resource of the Week, ResourceShelf, 2 Mar 2009)

First Informers in the Disaster Zone: The Lessons of Katrina
(Albert L. May, The Aspen Institute, 2006) PDF

Five Years Post 9/11, One Year Post Katrina: The state of America's readiness (U.S. Conference of Mayors, Washington, DC, 26 Jul 2006) PDF

Florida Division of Emergency Management

The Food Crises: A quantitative model of food prices including speculators and ethanol conversion (Marcos Lagi et al., arXiv:1109.4859v1 [q-fin.GN], 21 Sep 2011)

-- Udate July 2012 -- The Food Crises: The US Drought (Marco Lagi et al., New England Complex Systems Institute, 23 Jul 2012) PDF

-- Press Release

Food Crisis (World Bank Group)

Food for the Hungry International

The Food Issue - An Open Letter to the Next Farmer in Chief (Michael Pollan, New York Times, 9 Oct 2008)

Food Price Watch (Poverty Reduction & Equity Group, World Bank, 31 Aug 2012) PDF

Food Security and Climate Change (Paul Roger, Monthly Global Security Briefing, Oxford Research Group, Jul 2012) PDF

Food supply situation and crop prospects in Sub-Saharan Africa
(GIEWS, Dec 2005)

Force of First Resort: Katrina Offers Lessons for Improving the National Guard Response to Catastrophic Domestic Emergencies (Lynn E. Davis, RAND Review, Summer 2007)

Forces of Nature (CBC News Indepth)

Forces of Nature -- Science, Maps, Photos, Video
(National Geographic)

Forces of Nature (ThinkQuest)

Forest Service National Avalanche Center
(Doug Abromeit et al., US Forest Service)

Forgotten Communities, Unmet Promises: An unfolding tragedy on the Gulf Coast (Tony Pipa et al., Oxfam America, Boston, Aug 2006)

Free Disaster Recovery Training for Volunteers (e-Training Inc.)

Fritz Institute (San Francisco)

From Knowledge to Wisdom: Assessment and Prospects after Three Decades (Nicholas Maxwell, Integral Review 9:2:76-112, 2013) PDF

-- Abstract (UCL Discovery)

From Risk to Opportunity: How Insurers Can Proactively and Profitably Manage Climate Change (Evan Mills & Eugene Lecomte, Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies, Boston, 22 Aug 2006) PDF

From Social Data Mining to Forecasting Socio-Economic Crisis (Dirk Helbing & Stefano Balietti, arXiv:1012.0178 [cs.CY], 1 Dec 2010, revised)

Frontline: Blackout (PBS, June 2001)

Frontline | Inside the Meltdown (Michael Kirk et al., PBS, 17 Feb 2009)

Frontline | The Spill (Marcela Gaviria & Martin Smith, PBS, 5 Nov 2010)

Fukushima in review: A complex disaster, a disastrous response (Yoichi Funabashi & Kay Kitazawa, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Mar-Apr 2012)

Future Day (The Millennium Project)

The Gaza/Lebanon Crisis: A Brookings Saban Center Briefing (mod. Kenneth M. Pollack, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 17 Jul 2006)

GEMS: Global Emergency Management System (FEMA, U.S.)

GeoCollaborative Crisis Management (Pennsylvania State University)

Geological Updates and Disaster Information

Geologic Hazards (USGS)

The GeoNet Project (New Zealand)

George Mitchell on the Middle East Crisis (Interview on NOW, with David Brancaccio, PBS, 21 Jul 2006)

GIEWS | The FAO Global Information and Early Warning System
(Food and Agriculture Organization)

Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS)

Global Disaster Watch

Global Economic Crisis, Guide to the (Robert J. Tiess, Middleton Thrall Library)

Global Emergencies (GDC Emergency Home)

-- 21st Century Disasters (Global Development Center)

Global Emergency Management Information Network Initiative
(G7 GEMINI Project)

Global Food Crisis (ReliefWeb)

Global Food Crisis (USAID)

Global Food Crisis (Washington Post)

Global Food Security (ERS/USDA Briefing Room)

Global Food Security Crisis, The Secretary General's High Level Task Force on the (United Nations)

The Global Health Disaster Network (GHDNet)

-- US Mirror Site

Global map of natural disaster economic losses
(Maplecroft Maps, Bradford, Ontario)

Global Megacrisis Survey: Four Scenarios on a Pessimism-Optimism Axis (William Halal & Michael Marien, TechCast Issue Analysis, 21 Sep 2009)

Global Water Crisis (Nature Web Focus, Apr 2003)

Google Crisis Response

Government Millennium Centre (UK)

Great Seattle Fire (University of Washington Libraries)

Guidance Channel | Crisis Resources

Guidelines for Addressing the Needs of Students in the Aftermath of Trauma
(United Federation of Teachers)

Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch (Institute for Southern Studies)

Haiti: A country in turmoil (CBC News Indepth, 13 Feb 2006)

The Halifax Explosion (CBC)

Harbingers of Death: Predicting Supernovae (Monica Young, Sky & Telescope News Blog, 6 Feb 2012_

HazardMaps.gov | The Multi-Hazard Mapping Initiative - MMI (US)

HazardNET Home Page

Hazards (USGS)

Hazards Data Distribution System (USGS Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science)

Hazards of Nature, Risks to Development: An IEG Evaluation of World Bank Assistance for Natural Disasters (Ronald S. Parker & William Hurlbut et al., Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank, Washington, DC, Aug 2006)

Hazards Watch: Reducing the Impacts of Disasters Through Improved Earth Observations -- Summary of a Workshop, October 22, 2003 (US National Research Council, 2004)

Health Care In New Orleans Before And After Hurricane Katrina
(Robin Rudowitz et al., Health Affairs, 29 Aug 2006)

Healthy Planet: Satellites as Sentinels for Health & Environment
(NASA Goddard SFC)

Heat Wave (Bernard N. Meisner, NWS Southern Region)

Heat Wave and Heat Index Page (Barry Reichenbaugh, NWS Office of Public Affairs)

Heat Wave Awareness Project (Casey Thornbrugh et al., NCAR)

Heat Wave in Japan (EO Natural Hazards, 23 Jul 2004)

Heat Waves (American Red Cross)

Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters
(US National Institute of Mental Health)

Helping Children Cope with Tragedy (US National PTA)

Helping Children Cope: Teacher Resources for Talking About Tragedy
(EducationWorld)

HEWS | Humanitarian Early Warning Web Service (IASC Sub-Working Group on Preparedness and Contingency Planning)

Hidden Oil and Gas Plumes in the Gulf (Miles O'Brien & Marsha Walton, Special Report, US National Science Foundation, 20 Sep 2010)

Historians debate designation of 'worst environmental disaster' in U.S. (David A. Fahrenthold & Ylan Q. Mui, Washington Post, 22 Jun 2010)

Homeland Security for Physicians (Jane M. Orient, Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons 11:3, Fall 2006) PDF

Hot or Not?: Recognizing and Managing the Health Impacts of Climate Change (Sabrina McCormick, American Sociological Association, 5 Jun 2008) PDF

How Much Nature Do We Have to Use? (Mathis Wackernagel, Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network, 12 Dec 2013)

How Prepared Is Your City? (Mike Fish, CNN.com In-Depth Special, 17 Jan 2002)

How Schools Can Help Students Recover from Traumatic Experiences: A Tool Kit for Supporting Long-Term Recovery (Lisa H. Jaycox et al., RAND Corporation, 24 Oct 2006)

Human Health in a Changing Climate: A Canadian Assessment of Vulnerabilities and Adaptive Capacity (ed. Jacinthe Seguin, Health Canada, 31 Jul 2008)

-- Human Health in a Changing Climate: A Canadian Assessment of Vulnerabilities and Adaptive Capacity (Peter Berry, Upwind/Downwind Conference, Health Canada, 25 Feb 2008) PDF

-- Assessing the Health Risks of Climate Change (Health Canada)

Humanitarian Affairs (United Nations)

Humanitarian and Disaster Relief (HRIN)

Humanitarian crisis in the Middle East (map, IFRC, 21 Jul 2006) PDF

Humanitarian.info (blog by Paul Currion)

HumanitarianInfo.org | Humanitarian Information Centres and Partners
(UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)

The Human Project (Erika Ilves & Anna Stillwell)

Humans Cross Another Danger Line for the Planet (Mark Fischetti, Observations, Scientific American Blog Network, 15 Jan 2015)

Human tide: the real migration crisis (Rachel Baird et al., Christian Aid, London, 14 May 2007)

Human Vulnerability to Climate Change (Ch 3 of UNEP Global Environment Outook 3, 2002) PDF

Hurricane Digital Memory Bank: Preserving the Stories of Katrina, Rita, and Wilma (Roy Rosenzweig et al., George Mason University)

Hurricane Katrina (USDoL Monthly Labor Review Online 129:8, Aug 2006)

Hurricane Katrina: The Aftermath (New Scientist Special Report)

Hurricane Katrina: Analysis of the Impact on the Insurance Industry
(Amy Bouska et al., Towers Perrin/Tillinghast, New York, Oct 2005) PDF

Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans Universities (Report of an AAUP Special Committee, American Association of University Professors, Washington, DC, 15 May 2007)

Hurricane Katrina: Are We Better Prepared Five Years Later? (Wanda Edwards & Candace J. Iskowitz, Institute for Business & Home Safety, 23 Aug 2010) PDF

Hurricane Katrina: Lessons for Army Planning and Operations (Lynn E. Davis et al., RAND Corporation, May 2007) PDF

Hurricane Katrina: A Nation Still Unprepared (US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, 21 Dec 2006)

Hurricane Katrina: Perceptions of the Affected
(Fritz Institute, San Francisco, 2006) PDF

Hurricane Katrina: Providing Oversight of the Nation's Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Activities (Statement of Norman J. Rabkin, U.S. Government Accountability Office, 28 Sep 2005) PDF

Hurricane Katrina: Reconstruction through Mitigation (Association of State Floodplain Managers, Madison, Wisconsin, 9 Sep 2005) PDF

Hurricane Katrina Response (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)

Hurricane Katrina Response: Environmental Health Needs and Habitability Assessment (Joint Task Force, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention & U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 17 Sep 2005)

Hurricane Katrina Task Force Subcommittee Report
(American Bar Association, Chicago, Feb 2006) PDF

Hurricane Katrina Timeline (The Brookings Institution) PDF

Hurricane Katrina: Where Do We Go from Here?
(The Brookings Institution, 8 Sep 2005)

Hurricane Relief from the Sea (dir. Clinton H. Whitehurst, Jr., Strom Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs, Clemson University, South Carolina, 25 May 2006) PDF

Hurricanes Katrina & Rita Web Archive
(Internet Archive, San Francisco)

Hurricane Spending and the Federal Budget (Jim Saxton et al., Joint Economic Committee Research Report #109-29, U.S. Congress, Feb 2006) PDF

IASC - The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (UN)

IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (Inter-Agency Standing Committee, WHO, 17 Jun 2007) PDF

ICES Disaster Resources - Home Page

ICRC / Red Cross Web Site

I.D.N.D.R. Home Page (International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction)

IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) - Crisis and Recovery (International Monetary Fund, April 2009)

"I'm Okay" Message Center

Impact Hazard: Hot Topics (Ken Bollinger)

The Impact of Hurricanes on Housing & Economic Activity: A Case Study for Florida (National Association of Realtors, Chicago, Apr 2006) PDF

The Impact of Police and Media Relations on a Crisis (C. Daniel Castro, US Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, Sep 2006) PDF

InciWeb, the Incident Information System (US National Interagency Fire Center)

An Inconvenient Talk: Dave Hughes's guide to the end of the fossil fuel age (Chris Turner, The Walrus 6:5:22-9, Jun 2009)

The Inevitable Climate Catastrophe (Geoffrey Parker, The Chonicle Review, 28 May 2013, repr. Mother Pelican 9:7, Jul 2013)

Information for Disaster Management (Charles Kelly, GDC)

INSC: Home Page (International Nuclear Safety Center)

The Institute for Business & Home Safety (Tampa, Florida)

International Charter "Space and Major Disasters" (Charter on Cooperation to Achieve the Coordinated Use of Space Facilities in the Event of Natural or Technological Disasters, 1 Nov 2000)

International Crisis Group (ICG) - Conflict Prevention and Resolution
(Intelligence Consulting Group, Brussels)

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

International Fund for saving the Aral Sea (IFAS, Dushanbe, Tajikistan)

International Health | Women for World Health Organization

The International Rescue Committee

The International Rescue Corps - Home Page

International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (United Nations, Geneva)

International Y2K Cooperation Center

-- European Mirror

-- South American Site

The Internet and Emergency Preparedness
(Pew Internet Project, 31 Aug 2003)

Internet Disaster Information Center (Matthew Grossman & Jason Ayers)

-- International Disaster Reports Gopher

The Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from September 11
(U.S. National Research Council, 2002)

IPANDAnet (Information Professionals' Alliance on Natural Disasters and Accidents)

IRIN - Integrated Regional Information Networks (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)

Israel/Palestine/Lebanon: Climbing Out of the Abyss
(International Crisis Group, Brussels, 25 Jul 2006)

JewzNewz.com Crisis Information Center

Joint Rescue Coordination Centre, Victoria (Canadian Coast Guard Pacific Region)

Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (ed. Jim Whitman et al.)

Journey to Planet Earth: State of the Planet's Wildlife
(Marilyn & Hal Weiner, PBS, 18 Apr 2006)

Katrina Deceased Victims List (John Mutter, The Earth Institute at Columbia University)

Katrina Index: Tracking Variables of Post-Katrina Reconstruction
(Bruce Katz et al., Brookings Institution, Dec 2005, updated)

Katrina Issues and the Aftermath (The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC)

Katrina: The Response (NOW with David Brancaccio, PBS, Sep 2005)

KidsPeace | The National Center for Kids Overcoming Crisis (US)

The Landslide Handbook -- A Guide to Understanding Landslides (Lynn M. Highland & Peter Bobrowsky, USGS Circular 1325, Nov 2008)

Landslides (National Resources Canada)

Landslides (USGS Natural Hazards Gateway)

Landslides Hazards (USGS)

The Last Alarm (Eric V. Bush)

Latest Natural Disasters, 1980- (ReliefWeb)

Learning From Haiti - Rapid Response Research - Special Report (US National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, 16 Apr 2010)

Lessons from KatrinaHealth (Victoria D. Weisfeld et al., Markle Foundation, 13 Jun 2006) PDF

Lessons Learned From Hurricane Katrina: Preparing Your Institution for a Catastrophic Event (Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, Washington, DC, 2006)

Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum (British Museum)

The Living Almanac of Disasters (Cati Laporte)

Living with Risk: A Global Review of Disaster Reduction Initiatives
(UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 14 Jul 2004)

Locust Watch (HEWS)

Logistics and the Effective Delivery of Humanitarian Relief
(Fritz Institute, San Francisco, 2005) PDF

Losing Louisiana: Land Loss on the Coast
(Zach Wise, DigitalArtWork.net)

The Macroeconomic and Budgetary Effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: An Update (Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Congress, Washington, DC, 29 Sep 2005) PDF

The Macroeconomic Effects of Hurricane Katrina (Brian W. Cashell, CRS Report for Congress, 13 Sep 2005) PDF

Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 6 Apr 2012) PDF

Managing Traumatic Stress (APA HelpCenter)

Man-Made Disasters (MedlinePlus)

Mapping the impacts of recent natural disasters and technological accidents in Europe (European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, 23 Mar 2004) PDF

Marine Environmental Impacts of Hurricane Katrina (NOAA Fisheries)

Mass Fatality Incidents: A Guide for Human Forensic Identification
(US National Institute of Justice, 2005) PDF

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Canada

Medically unexplained physical symptoms in emergency medicine (D. T. Stephenson & J. R. Price, Emergency Medicine Journal 23(8):595-600, Aug 2006)

Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Financial Collapse (series, Doc Zone, CBC-TV, Sep 2010)

Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergencies (WHO)

Mercy Corps International (Portland, Oregon)

MetaFoundation (Julian Darley et al.)

Middle East Crisis (BBC News In Depth, 14 Jul 2006, updated)

The Middle East Crisis: Six "Long Wars" and Counting (Anthony H. Cordesman, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Washington, DC, 4 Aug 2006) PDF

Middle East in Crisis (CBC News In Depth, 17 Jul 2006)

Minneapolis Bridge Collapse: Live Streaming Audio/Video Coverage from Local MSP TV & Radio Stations (ResourceShelf, 2 Aug 2007)

Minneapolis Interstate 35 Bridge Collapse: A Structural Failure? (Special Report, Design News, Reed Business Information, Waltham, Massachusetts)

Mother Jones' Full Coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its Aftermath (Foundation for National Progress, San Francisco, 27 Aug 2007)

MSF Canada | Crisis Zone (Life Network, 2003)

MSF Canada: Visit a Refugee Camp (Médecins Sans Frontières)

MSF Emergency Preparedness

MSF-USA: Visit a Refugee Camp

The Mutating Euro Area Crisis: Is the Balance between "Skeptics" and "Advocates" Shifting? (Francesco Paolo Mongeli, European Central Bank, Feb 2013) PDF

NASP Crisis Resources (National Association of School Psychologists, US)

National Air Disaster Alliance/Foundation (Washington DC)

National Air Disaster Family Support Team (Washington DC)

National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)

National Critical Zone Observatories (U.S. National Science Foundation)

National Disaster Management in India (Ministry of Home Affairs)

National Disaster Medical System (U.S. Office of Emergency Preparedness)

-- Team Web Sites

National Drought Mitigation Center (Lincoln, Nebraska)

National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2006) PDF

National Next Of Kin Registry International Emergency Contact System (US)

National Search and Rescue Secretariat (SAR Canada)

Nationwide Plan Review: Phase 2 Report (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 16 Jun 2006) PDF

Native ecosystems blitzed by drought (Alexandra Witze, Nature News & Comment, 12 Aug 2014)

Natural Disaster (Pacific Disaster Center, Kihei, Hawaii)

Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis -- Synthesis Report (Maxx Dilley et al., Center for Hazards & Risk Research, Columbia University, Mar 2005) PDF

Natural Disaster Reference Database

-- NDRD Subject Categories

Natural Disasters (MedlinePlus)

Natural Disasters (Microfusion, Australia)

Natural Disasters (National Geographic)

Natural Disasters (ReliefWeb)

Natural Disasters (Sean McDougall & Nathan Beranger)

Natural disasters | Guardian Unlimited Special Report
(The Guardian, London)

Natural Hazards (The Atlas of Canada)

The Natural Hazards Center (University of Colorado)

Natural Hazards Databases at NGDC (NOAA)

Natural Hazards Gateway (USGS)

Natural Hazards: Global Overview of Countries of Concern
(WFP Early Warning)

Natural Hazards Observer (Natural Hazards Center)

NaturalHazards.org (Jon Van de Grift, Boulder, Colorado)

Natural Hazard Statistics (U.S. National Weather Bureau)

Natural Hazards Support System (U.S. Geological Survey)

New Orleans (Reporting & Essays, The New Yorker)

New Orleans after the Storm: Lessons from the Past, a Plan for the Future (Mark Munro et al., The Brookings Institution, Oct 2005)

NIEHS Response to Hurricane Katrina (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley)

NIPC Advisories, Alerts, and Warnings
(FBI National Infrastructure Protection Center)

NIPC Daily Reports

NI/USR (National Institute for Urban Search & Rescue)

NOAA Office of Response and Restoration

NOAA Operational Significant Event Imagery Server

NOAAWatch: NOAA's All-Hazard Monitor (U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

Noah's Wish: Rescuing and Sheltering Animals in Disasters
(Placerville, California)

North American Drought: A Paleo Perspective
(NOAA Paleoclimatology Program)

NOVA | Emergency Mine Rescue (Kate Dart et al., PBS, 26 Oct 2010)

NOVA | Hunt for the Supertwister (Thomas Lucas, PBS, 30 Mar 2004)

NOVA | Magnetic Storm (David Sington et al., PBS, 18 Nov 2003)

NOVA Online | Avalanche! (PBS, 1997)

NOVA Online | Escape! (PBS, 16-17 Feb 1999)

The Ocean Ranger Disaster, 14 February 1982 (CBC Archives)

OCHA | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

OCIPEP | Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness, Canada

OFDA Reports Index (Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance)

Oil, Out of Control (ed. Terry Devitt, Whyfiles, 19 Dec 2002)

One Year After Katrina: The State of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast (ed. Chris Kromm, Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch, Southern Exposure Special Report 34:2, 23 Aug 2006) PDF

Ongoing Coverage of Historic Drought in U.S. (Climate Central)

Organization and Mission of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate: Issues and Options for the 109th Congress (Keith Bea, CRS Report for Congress, 7 Sep 2005) PDF

Oso Mudslide: Links to the Geology Behind the Tragedy (Dana Hunter, Rosetta Stones, Scientific American Blog Network, 26 Mar 2014)

Outbreak Alert! Database (Center for Science in the Public Interest)

Oxfam and Emergencies

Pacific Disaster Center (Kihei, Hawaii)

The Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale (NASA NEO Program)

Parent and Child Post-Traumatic Stress After Hurricane Charley: The CHEER Study (Elizabeth Barnett et al., University of South Florida, May 2006) PDF

Pediatric Terrorism and Disaster Preparedness: A Resource for Pediatricians (U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland, Oct 2006)

People and the planet (Royal Society, 26 Apr 2012)

-- Royal Society Calls for Redistribution of Wealth and More Birth Control to Save the Planet (David Biello, Observations, Scientific American Blog Network, 26 Apr 2012)

Perfect Disaster (Discovery Channel, 19 Mar-16 Apr 2006)

A Performance Review of FEMA's Disaster Management Activities in Response to Hurricane Katrina (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 31 Mar 2006) PDF

Pet Care Tips: Emergency Pet Preparedness (ASPCA)

The Peters ETI Religious Crisis Survey (Ted Peters & Julie Froehlig, Counterbalance Foundation, 15 Aug 2008) PDF

-- Religion could survive discovery of ET, survey suggests (Jessica Griggs, New Scientist, 26 Jan 2010)

Petfinder.com | Animal Emergency Response Network
(Tucson, Arizona)

PetHarbor.com | National Animal Search Engine
(Huntington Beach, California)

PETS 911 (Scottsdale, Arizona)

Pinpointing and preventing imminent extinctions (Taylor H. Ricketts et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 12 Dec 2005) PDF

Planet under pressure (BBC News In Depth)

A Plan to Rescue the Blue Planet (Alex Rogers, Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network, 21 Aug 2014)

Platform for the Promotion of Early Warning (ISDR, Bonn, Germany)

Police Scanners (US)

Policy Analysis for Natural Hazards: Some Cautionary Lessons from Environmental Policy Analysis (Matthew D. Adler, University of Pennsylvania Law School Scholarship at Penn Law, 2 Nov 2006)

Pollution and Deception at Ground Zero: Why It Could Happen Again (Sierra Club, San Francisco)

Pompeii: Portents of Disaster (Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, BBC, 23 Sep 2003)

Pompeii: Stories from an Eruption (The Field Museum, Chicago)

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (National Institute of Mental Health)

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Military: A Selected Bibliography (Lori Sekala, U.S. Army War College, Nov 2005) PDF

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Diagnosis and Assessment (U.S. National Research Council, 2006)

Power Outage Study (U.S. Department of Energy, Mar 2000)

Preparing for Drought in the 21st Century
(Report of the U. S. National Drought Policy Commission, May 2000)

Primer: Japan's Nuclear Crisis (NPR, 14 Mar 2011)

ProVention Consortium (World Bank Group)

Project Impact (FEMA)

Protecting Children from Sexual Exploitation & Sexual Violence in Disaster & Emergency Situations (Stephanie Delaney, ECPAT International, Bangkok, Mar 2006) PDF

Protecting New Orleans: From Hurricane Barriers to Floodwalls (Nicole T. Carter, CRS Report for Congress, 13 Dec 2005, updated 26 Jan 2006) PDF

PTSD Alliance (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)

PTSD.com - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Resources

Public Health Agency of Canada

Public Health Management of Disasters (American Public Health Association)

Public Health Preparedness and Response to Chemical and Radiological Incidents: Functions, Practices, and Areas for Future Work (Tom LaTourrette et al., RAND Health, Aug 2009) PDF

Public Health Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita -- Louisiana, 2005 (W. R. Daley, CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 55(02):29-30, 20 Jan 2006)

Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada

Puff - A Volcanic Ash Tracking Model (University of Alaska)

Puget Sound Landslides (Washington State Department of Ecology)

Quantifying the Risk: From the Torino Scale to the Palermo Scale
(Livia Giacomini, Tumbling Stone 11, Feb 2002)

Quantifying the Risk Posed by Potential Earth Impacts
(Steven R. Chesley et al., Palermo, Jun 2001)

Queen of the North Grounding and Sinking (BC Ferries Divisional Inquiry, 22 Mar 2007)

-- New information contained in Queen of the North Report (BC Ferries News Release, 3 Oct 2007) PDF

-- Divisional Inquiry Addendum (BC Ferries, 2 Oct 2007) PDF

Radiation Event Medical Management (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)

Ready.gov (U.S. Department of Homeland Security)

ReallyReady.org (Federation of American Scientists)

Rebuilding After Katrina: The Challenge -- and Opportunity
(Special Report, Business Week, 14 Sep 2005)

Recipient Perceptions of Aid Effectiveness: Rescue, Relief and Rehabilitation in Tsunami Affected Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka (The Fritz Institute, San Francisco, 2005) PDF

Red Sky at Morning: Crisis of the Global Environment (James Gustav Speth, WGBH Forum Network, Boston, 14 Apr 2004)

ReliefWeb Home Page (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)

-- Map Centre

-- North American Mirror

The Repopulation of New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina (Kevin McCarthy et al., RAND Gulf States Policy Institute, 15 Mar 2006) PDF

Rescue Coordination Centre Network
(Canadian Coast Guard)

Resources for Disaster Studies (Eric C. Daix, University of Delaware)

Resources for Teachers in the Wake of Disaster
(Eisenhower National Clearinghouse)

Resources in the Aftermath of the Terrorist Attack (ASCD)

Resources of the Week -- Keeping Tabs on the Global Food Crisis (Shirl Kennedy, ResourceShelf, 2 Jun 2008)

Responding to Climate Disruption - Developing the Agenda (Paul Rogers, Oxford Research Group Monthly Global Security Briefing, Feb 2014) PDF

Responding to Earthquakes: Learning from earthquake relief and recovery operations (ALNAP, Jul 2008)

Responding to Urban Disasters: Learning from previous relief and recovery operations (ALNAP, 27 Jul 2009) PDF

Restore the Gulf (Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center, US Government)

Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island (Terry L. Hunt, American Scientist 94(5):412-19, Sep-Oct 2006)

The Right to Survive: The humanitarian challenge for the twenty-first century (Tanja Schuemer-Cross & Ben Heaven Taylor, Oxfam International, Apr 2009)

The Rising Cost of Natural Hazards (Holli Riebeek, NASA Earth Observatory, 28 Mar 2005)

The Risk Advisory Group (London)

Risk Management and Disaster Recovery Plan Services
(Rothstein Associates)

Safe Guard Network - Home Page

-- Survival Kit

Samaritans - Confidential emotional support 24 hours a day (UK)

Satellite Monitors Rains that Trigger Landslides (Laura Naranjo, NASA Earth Observatory, 12 Jun 2007)

Savage Earth Online (PBS Online)

Savage Planet Online (PBS Online)

Search and Rescue Canada (SAR-RES)

Search and Rescue Society of British Columbia (SARBC)

Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina (Tom Davis, Chairman, U.S. House of Representatives)

Severe Space Weather Events--Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts: A Workshop Report (Daniel N. Baker, Chair, et al., National Research Council, Washington, DC, Jan 2009)

-- Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe (Michael Brooks, New Scientist, 23 Mar 2009)

Sharing and Reducing the Financial Risks of Future "Mega-Catastrophes" (Robert E. Litan , The Brookings Institution, 11 Nov 2005; revised Mar 2006)

Solving the Mystery of the Vanishing Bees (Diana Cox-Foster & Dennis vanEngelsdorp, Saving the Honeybee, Scientific American 300:4:40-55, Apr 2009)

Somalia at the brink: Fighting, 400,000 refugees and failed crops (David McGuffin, Reports from abroad, CBC News, 2 Oct 2007)

SOS! Canadian Disasters (Library and Archives Canada)

South Asia Disaster (PBS Online Newshour, 28 Dec 2004; updated)

The Sphere Project - Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response (Geneva)

Still Waters: The Global Fish Crisis (Fen Montaigne, National Geographic, Apr 2007)

Strong as the Weakest Link: Medical Response to a Catastrophic Event (Eileen Salinksy, National Health Policy Forum, Washington, DC, 8 Aug 2008) PDF

Successful Response Starts with a Map: Improving Geospatial Support for Disaster Management (Michael F. Goodchild et al., US National Research Council, 2007)

Super-eruptions: Global Effects and Future Threats (Stephen Sparks & Stephen Self et al., Report of a Geological Society of London Working Group, 2005)

Supervolcano (dir. Tony Mitchell, BBC, 13-14 Mar 2005; Discovery Channel, 10 Apr 2005)

Support for Students Exposed to Trauma (Lisa H. Jaycox et al., RAND Health, 10 Jun 2009) PDF

The Survival of Humanity (Lawrence Rifkin, Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network, 13 Sep 2013)

Survivor Location Assistance (Hacker Foundation)

Talking About Disasters (FEMA)

Talking About Terrorism, Tragedy, and Resilience: Resources for Parents, Teachers, and Family Support Professionals (US National Parent Information Network)

Tax and Insurance Consequences of Major Disasters: Weathering the Storm (Patrick E. Tolan Jr., Nova Law Review 31, 2007; SSRN, 28 Jun 2007)

Tema (Tema Center Memorial Trust)

Think differently: Humanitarian impacts of the economic crisis in Europe (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva, 2 Oct 2013) PDF

10 Years after North America's Largest Blackout (Scientific American In-Depth Reports, 13 Aug 2013)

Three Mile Island: The Inside Story (Smithsonian National Museum of American History)

3,000 Years of Abusing Earth on a Global Scale (David Biello, Scientific American, 30 Apr 2013)

Through the Anthropocene Looking Glass (Christina Agapakis, Oscillator, Scientific American Blog Network, 7 Jul 2017)

Timeline: Middle East Crisis (NOW, with David Brancaccio, PBS, 21 July 2006, updated)

Tipping Point: Perspective of a Climatologist (James E. Hansen, 2008-2009 State of the Wild) PDF

The Torino Scale - Asteroid-Earth Impact Scale

The Torino Scale: A NEO Hazard Index (Richard P. Binzel)

Tornado Alley: Twister Devastates Oklahoma City Suburb (Scientific American, In-Depth Reports, 21 May 2013, updated)

Transitions and Tipping Points in Complex Environmental Systems: A Report by the NSF Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education, 8 Sep 2009) PDF

Trauma Support Groups (Raymond Lloyd Richmond)

Traumatology The International Journal... (Green Cross Projects)

The Tsunami and Nuclear Crisis: 1 Year Later (Scientific American In-Depth Reports, 5 Mar 2012)

25 Years After: Scenes from Chernobyl--The Worst Nuclear Accident in History [Slide Show] (Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American Mar 2011)

2010 Copiapó mining accident - 5 August-13 October (Wikipedia)

UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters (Oakland)

UK Resilience (Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Cabinet Office)

UMDL Natural Disasters

Understanding Katrina: Perspectives from the Social Sciences
(Social Science Research Council, New York)

UNICEF - Emergency Operation

United Nations Global Issues

United States Drought Monitor (National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, Nebraska)

Uniting Behind Our Children: Healing Stories from America's Schools
(US National Education Association)

UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal (United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response)

U.S.A. Global Emergency Management Information Network Initiative (GEMINI)

US Disaster Information Network

U.S. Drought Monitor

U.S. Drought Portal (National Integrated Drought Information System)

USGS Emergency Management (U.S. Geological Survey)

USGS News and Information on El Niño

US Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill News

US National Response Team Hazardous Materials Planning Guide 2001 Update PDF

Vancouver Urban Search and Rescue (USAR Can TF-1, Vancouver, BC)

VEMIS - Virtual Emergency Management Information System
(Peter S. Anderson, SFU)

The Virtual ER: Where Emergency Medicine Meets the Internet

VOICE (Voluntary Organisations in Cooperation in Emergencies, Brussels)

WADEM Home Page (World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine)

-- US Mirror Site

War, Humanitarian Crises, Population Displacement, and Fertility: A Review of Evidence (Kenneth Hill, US National Research Council, 2004)

The Warning (prod. Michael Kirk, PBS Frontline, 20 Oct 2009)

WaterWatch -- Current water resources conditions (USGS)

We Can Do Better: Lessons Learned for Protecting Older Persons in Disasters (Mary Jo Gibson & Michele Hayunga, AARP Public Policy Institute, Washington, DC, May 2006)

Western Disaster Center (US)

WFP Emergency Report (UN World Food Programme)

What caused Philippines landslide? (Sarah Buckley, BBC News, 17 Feb 2006)

What Happens to Victims?: A Research Guide for Disaster-Response Studies (Harry H. Hatry et al., Uban Institute, Washington DC, 2 Aug 2006)

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
(dir. Spike Lee, Home Box Office, 16 Aug 2006)

When the wells run dry (John Day, Opinion, The Scientist, 16 Feb 2011)

WHO - Emergency and Humanitarian Action Homepage
(World Health Organization_

Why so Dry? (Science@NASA, 21 May 2004)

Wilderness Medicine Institute

WISER - Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders
(US National Library of Medicine)

World Conference on Disaster Reduction, 18-22 January 2005, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan (UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction)

World Crisis Web

World Disasters Report 2005 (British Red Cross)

World Disasters Report 2010: Focus on urban risk (ed. Denis McClean, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva, 16 Sep 2010) PDF

-- Summary

World Disasters Report 2011- Focus on hunger and malnutrition (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Sep 2011)

World Federation of Scientists (Lausanne, Switzerland)

World population unlikely to stop growing this century (Quirin Schiermeier, Nature News & Comment, 18 Sep 2014)

World Summit on Food Security: World Summit (Rome, 16-18 Nov 2009)

World Journal of Emergency Surgery (BioMed Central)

World Trade Center Disaster Study (NIST Engineering Laboratory)

World Vision

World Vision Canada

World Vision United States

World Without Oil (US)

-- Archive-It.org

WWW Emergency Sites

Yahoo! Children and Traumatic Events

Y2K-Status.Org - Critical Infrastructure (Richard Collins)

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