Natural Hazards Center Web Site

Citation

(1999), "Natural Hazards Center Web Site", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 8 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.1999.07308cag.001

Natural Hazards Center Web Site

For an extensive, annotated list of useful hazard Internet sites, see: http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/sites/sites.html

Natural Hazards Center Web Site

http://www.colorado.edu/hazards

A working paper

The Natural Hazards Information Center recently published a new working paper (#101 ) ­ A Case Study of Re-establishing a Utah Seismic Safety Commission, by Elliott Mittler.

The study is one of several undertaken by Mittler in an NSF-funded assessment of state roles in disaster mitigation and management and is the fourth in the series to be published on the Hazards Center Web site. Mittler's objective is to clarify why states have taken the initiative to develop in-state programs, to determine how other states can be encouraged to follow suit, and to determine an appropriate role for the federal government in supporting state initiatives.

This particular study examines why and how the state of Utah decided to re-establish a seismic safety commission. Mittler surveys the history of earthquake mitigation in the state and points out the political factors that deterred recreation of such a commission and how those barriers were overcome.

Working Paper #101 is available from the Hazards Center Web site at http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/wp/wp.html

Persons without access to the World Wide Web can obtain printed copies for $9.00, plus $3.00 domestic shipping and handling. To order a copy, or to determine overseas costs, contact the Center Publications Clerk at the address below or consult the Hazards Center online publication order form available from http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/puborder.html

Six Quick Response reports

With financial support from the National Science Foundation, the Natural Hazards Center sponsors "Quick Response" research-studies of the effects of and immediate response to disasters. Upon completing their work, quick response researchers submit brief reports of their findings to the center, which publishes them immediately via the World Wide Web. The newest reports include:

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  http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/qr/qr110/qr110.htmlQR110: Emergent Co-ordinative Groups and Women's Response Roles in the Central Florida Tornado Disaster, February 23, 1998, by Jennifer Wilson and Arthur Oyola-Yemaiel.

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  http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/qr/qr111/qr111.htmlQR111: Public Health Emergency Response: Evaluation of Implementation of a New Emergency Management System for Public Health in the State of Georgia, by Lora S. Werner, Matt Naud, and Anita Kellogg.

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  http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/qr/qr112/qr112.htmlQR112: Impact of Hurricane Bonnie (August 1998): North Carolina and Virginia with Special Emphasis on Estuarine/Mainland Shores and a Note About Hurricane Georges, Alabama, by David M. Bush, Tracy Monegan Rice, Andrew S. Coburn, Robert S. Young, and Matthew Stutz.

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  http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/qr/qr113/qr113.htmlQR113: The Mass Media, Potitical Fragmentation, and Environmental Injustice in Puerto Rico: A Case Study of the Floods in Barrio Tortugo, by Marla Perez-Lugo.

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  http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/qr/qr114/qr114.htmlQR114: Effectiveness of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Applications in Flood Management during and after Hurricane Fran, by Ute J. Dymon.

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  http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/qr/qr115/qr115.htmlQR115: A Review of Relief: An Examination of the Response to Hurricane Georges in the Dominican Republic, by David A. McEntire.

  The entire list of quick response reports is available at http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/qr/qr.html

In addition, printed copies can be purchased for $5.00 each, plus shipping charges ($3.20 for the USA; $4.00, Canada, Mexico, and international surface mail; and $5.00 for international air printed matter). Orders should be directed to the Publications Clerk, Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, Campus Box 482, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0482. Tel: (303) 492 6819; Fax: (303) 492-2151; E-mail: jclark@spot.colorado.edu

Again, an online publication order form is available from http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/puborder.html

Natural Hazard Center Annual Report

Almost 15,000 people receive the Observer, and another 2,000+ receive Disaster Research, the Natural Hazards Center's e-mail newsletter. The center's Web site now offers 35 Quick Response reports and seven Working Papers. If you would like more information about what the center has been up to lately, including the titles of all recent publications, see the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center 1998 Annual Report, now on-line at http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/annrpt/98annrpt.html