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Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 8 Issue 1

Strapline:

An International Journal

Category:

Environmental Management / Environment

Table Of Contents

Rescue operation and reconstruction of recent earthquakes in Iran

M. Ghafory‐Ashtiany

From February to May 1997, three devastating earthquakes occurred in rural areas of north and east of Iran. Considering the three consequent earthquakes in bad weather…

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Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/09653569710193736. When citing…

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Dimensions of biological terrorism: to what must we mitigate and respond?

Henry W. Fischer

The emergence of biological weapons of mass destruction as likely terrorist means of reigning terror on domestic urban populations is outlined. The dimensions of such a…

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Communication and cultural distortion during crises

Clive Smallman, David Weir

The paper starts with a description of a risk management model more suited to the current business environment. Key to the introduction of the model is the success of…

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The Lightning-Safety Mailing List

The Federal Emergency Management Agency

Factory Mutual publicly releases all of its property loss prevention engineering data sheets on CD-ROM

Marine

US Geological Survey's Center for Coastal Geology

Texas Agricultural Extension Service Emergency Information

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Improving safety performance

Weather

National Climatic Data Center

Disaster response often wholly inadequate at a personal level

1998 Pan American Sanitary Conference

Miscellaneous

El Nino, the soundtrack

International calendar

Independent review of the Easter 1998 UK floods

UK Emergency Planning Society

Hurricane Georges

Railway accidents

Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) deadline postponed six years.

Wildfire Magazine

Lowe's Home Improvement Stores/Federal Emergency Management Agency

Shipping minister in pollution action call

NOAA's Hurricane Research Division

National Geographic

National Center for Atmospheric Research

ListDPRA. Discussion/News of Disaster Prevention/Recovery

The Emergency Response Link

The Threat of Impact by Near-Earth Asteroids

California Environmental Resources Evaluation System

The Wingspread Principles

International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards

Pan American Health Organization

National Weather Service (NWS) Office of Meteorology

Public Safety Wireless Network

Federal Insurance Administration

The Interactive Weather Information Network

National Weather Service's Office of Hydrology

Switzerland chooses Tetrapol for its national secure radio communications network

Rothstein Catalog On Disaster Recovery

Central United States Earthquake Consortium

International Seismological Centre

Revolutionary SMART technology smokes out the secrets of fire modellers

Seminar on a maritime accident: Mineral Dampier

Dr Jay Levinson

Tropical Storm Watch

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

The National Geophysical Data Center

New chemical emergency response suit

Pollution

Ice Storm 1998

Hardin Meta Directory Page for Emergency Medicine

Review of the Israefi Press; an attempted bombing in the market place

Dr Jay Levinson

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Disaster Mitigation in Hospitals

Earthquake

National Drought Information Center

Conference planned to discuss the human aspects of disaster response

Caribbean Red Cross Society

Editorial

H.C. Wilson

Fires and explosions

Air accident investigation board (AAIB) calls on Boeing to modify Boeing 737 design to prevent leaks.

UK Home Office, Emergency Planning Division

Sea Grant

Aviation

Emergency spill response services to work together

Joel Glass

Updating Flood Inundation Maps Efficiently

CNN

The National Center for Atmospheric Research

Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Natural Hazards Center

Sahel region of West Africa

New Working Papers from the Hazards Center

Private and Public Business, Inc

PRIMAtalk

Classroom of the Future

Hospital Emergency Incident Command System

National Weather Service Training Center

University of Richmond School of Continuing Studies

Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness

The El Nino Information Forum

Tasmania State Emergency Service

Adoption and Enforcement of Seismic Building Codes

The Arkansas Earthquake Center

Illuminated lifejackets light the way for rescue at sea

Boulder Creek Flood Notebook

1994 Northridge earthquake

ISSN:

0965-3562

Online date, start – end:

1992

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Dr JC Gaillard
  • Prof. Emmanuel Luna

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