- A Procedure to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Two Watch Warning Systems - Notes from this workshop on the effectiveness of heat related health watch systems.
www.udel.edu/SynClim/noaa.htm
- CBS News Disaster Links - Information about a variety of manmade and natural disaster-related websites. Quick reference and access to realtime data.
www.cbsnews.com/digitaldan/disaster/disasters.shtml
- Disaster Research Center - Online publications, data, bibliographies, and other information relevant to the sociology of disasters.
www.udel.edu/DRC
- Forces of Nature - 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.
www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=C003603&url=C003603
- Geo Monitor - Links to websites about volcanos, earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, hurricanes, thunderstorms, and floods.
www.geomonitor.net
- HazNet - 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.
www.haznet.org
- Hot Topics: Disasters - New Scientist news and articles on some of the most feared natural disasters: fires, quakes, megafloods, tsunamis, meteors, mass extinctions.
www.newscientist.com/hottopics/disaster/disaster.jsp
- Living Almanac of Disasters - Almanac of historical disasters listed by date of the year.
disasterium.com/index.shtml
- Natural Disaster Management in India - Government Department of Agriculture and Cooperation information resource, including reports on recent and current disasters and information on management initiatives.
www.ndmindia.nic.in
- Natural Disasters and Catastrophes - About the causes, consequences and costs (if appropriate) of natural disasters and catastrophes. Includes specific commentary, features and statistics on a variety of subjects (i.e. volcanic activity) and a regularly updated listing of world-wide natural disasters effective January 1999.
www.btinternet.com/~mike.ferris
- ReliefWeb: Natural Disasters - 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).
www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vLND
- The Disaster Files - Repository of summaries, statistics, links and articles about natural (and some man-made) disasters including earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, floods, blizzards, epidemics, air crashes, explosions and volcanic eruptions.
www.eclectic-mall.com/disasterfiles
- The WWW Virtual Library: Hazards and Risk - Natural and man-made disasters, preparedness, impacts, and mitigation.
life.csu.edu.au/hazards/topics.html
- Urban Survival Tools - Natural disaster information, probability, statistics links and other information. Also provides survival kits and other survival products
www.urbansurvivaltools.com
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