InternetResourcesin DisasterManagementProf. David AlexanderGlobal Risk Forum Davos
AcademicLiterature
DisastersInternational journalwww.wiley.com/bw/editors.asp?ref=0361-3666
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis ManagementInternational Journalwww.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0966-0879
Risk AnalysisInternational journalwww.wiley.com/bw/subs.asp?ref=0272-4332
Disaster Prevention and ManagementInternational journalwww.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=0965-3562
International Journal of Mass Emergencies and DisastersRivista internazionalewww.usc.edu/schools/sppd/ijmed
Prehospital and Disaster MedicineInternational premedical journalpdm.medicine.wisc.edu
Natural Hazards ReviewInternational journalwww.asce.org/Journal.aspx?id=2147486861
Natural HazardsInternational journal of earth sciences, etcwww.springerlink.com/content/0921-030X
Natural Hazards & Earth System SciencesInternational journal of earth sciences, etcwww.natural-hazards-and-earth-system-sciences.net/index.html
Australian Journal of Emergency ManagementInternational journal (free distribution)www.ema.gov.au/ajem
Earthquake SpectraMultidisciplinary earthquake journalscitation.aip.org/EarthquakeSpectra/
Journal of Homeland Securityand Emergency ManagementInternational Journal (free by Internet)www.bepress.com/jhsem/
Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public PolicyInternational Journal (free by Internet)www.psocommons.org/rhcpp/
Journal of Homeland SecurityInternational on-line journalwww.homelandsecurity.org/newjournal/index_articles.asp
Journal of Business Continuityand Emergency ManagementInternational journalwww.henrystewart.com/jbcep.aspx
Journal of Emergency ManagementInternational journalwww.pnpco.com/pn06001.html
International Journal of Emergency MgtInternational journalwww.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=8
Environmental Hazards:Human and Policy DimensionsInternational journalearthscan.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/earthscan/ehaz
Human and Ecological Risk AssessmentInternational journalwww.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713400879
www.icdo.org/actualites.php
Disaster Response: Principles....Free on-line bookorgmail2.coe-dmha.org/dr/Images/Main.swf
News
ReliefWebUN News Site (sitreps)www.reliefweb.int
Reuters' AlertNetOn-line news bulletins from theThompson-Reuters Foundationwww.trust.org/alertnet/
PreventionWebMulti-function information sitewww.preventionweb.net
Global Facility for Disaster ReductionMulti-function information sitegfdrr.org/gfdrr/
Global Risk Forum (Davos)Multi-function information sitewww.idrc.info
Gender and Disasters NetworkMulti-function information sitewww.gdnonline.org/index.php
Organisations
Your nationalcivil protectionorganisation
US Federal Emergency Management AgencyMulti-function sitewww.fema.gov
FEMA Emergency Management InstituteOn-line emergency mgt "university"training.fema.gov
Example of a FEMA-EMIon-line independent study course
US Department of Homeland Security...in which FEMA is locatedwww.dhs.gov
Emergency Management AustraliaThe national resource for Ozwww.ema.gov.au
International Federation of Red Cross...Site of the annual World Disasters Reportwww.ifrc.org
American Red Cross SocietySpecialist in community protectionwww.redcross.org
Pan American Health OrganisationWorld Health Organisation Americasnew.paho.org
A PAHO publication
UK Overseas Development InstituteDevelopment [and disasters] think-tankwww.odi.org.uk
Example of an ODI HumanitarianPolicy Network publication
US Federal Centers for Disease ControlResources for epidemiological emergencieswww.cdc.gov
CDC site on emergencies andterrorism medical preparationswww.bt.cdc.gov
University of Colorado Natural Hazards CentreResource centre for natural hazards studieswww.colorado.edu/hazards
Colorado U. Natural Hazards ObserverImportant free newsletterwww.colorado.edu/hazards/o/
University of Wisconsin Disaster Management CenterEmergency management training centredmc.engr.wisc.edu
AON Benfield Hazard Research CentreUniversity College LondonGood source of publications and expertisewww.abuhrc.org
Multidisciplinary Center for EarthquakeEngineering Research, State Universityof New York at BuffaloCentre for earthquake studiesmceer.buffalo.edu
United States Geological SurveyPortal for various natural hazards siteswww.usgs.gov
European Commission DG EnvironmentCivil Protectionec.europa.eu/echo/civil_protection/civil/index.htm
Other resources
Radix - Compendium of Radical Essayswww.radixonline.org
InTERRAgate hazards sitewww.interragate.info/hazards
emergency-planning.blogspot.comwww.slideshare.net/dealexanderD.Alexander@alice.it

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