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Natural Catastrophes
Overcoming Disasters by Ilan Kelman
Relief System Information for Earthquakes (Pakistan)
Re-conceiving Recovery by James K. Mitchell
Understanding Katrina, perspectives from the Social Sciences, a website with various articles from a variety of authors
Downton, M. and R.A. Pielke, Jr., 2001. Discretion Without Accountability: Politics, Flood Damage, and Climate, Natural Hazards Review, 2(4):157-166.
Pielke, Jr., R.A., 1999: Paying for Disasters, Review of Disasters and
Democracy: The Politics of Extreme Natural Events, by R. Platt, Science, Vol. 286, 56.
Estimating the Compliance Costs for California SB 1953 by Charles Meade, Jonathan Kulick, and Richard Hillestad. This article covers earthquake safety.
Assessing Federal Research and Development for Hazard Loss Reduction by Charles Meade and Megan Abbott. This article pertains to natural disasters.
Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
Disease Epidemics
DHHS Pandemic Planning Update, 3/13/06 from Secretary Michael O. Leavitt
Avian Flu Survey, January 2006 (Project on the Public and Biological Security), by Robert J. Blendon, John M. Benson, Channtal Fleischfresser, Kathy Weldon, Harvard School of Public Health; Melissa Hermann, ICR/International Communications Research
Business continuity and avian flu conference/discussion by Deutsche Bank
Emerging Infectious Diseases a CDC website for infectious diseases
Summary: A Conference on the Global Threat of Pandemic Influenza By The Council on Foreign Relations
Emergency Preparedness for Influenza Pandemic by The Health, Welfare and Food Bureau, Hong Kong, China
Emergency preparedness for influenza
Fraser et al. Factors that make an infectious disease outbreak controllable. PNAS. 2004; 101(16):6146-51.
Germann et al. Mitigation strategies for pandemic influenza in the United States. PNAS. 2006; 103(15):5935-40.
Leavitt MO. Pandemic Planning Update. Department of Health and Human Services. March 13, 2006.
Mills et al. Pandemic influenza: risk of multiple introductions and the need to prepare for them. PLOS Medicine. 2006; 3(6):e135.
New Laboratory Assay for Diagnostic Testing of Avian Influenza A/H5 (Asian Lineage). MMWR. Vol. 55. February 3, 2006.
Pandemic Influenza: Risk of Multiple Introduction and the Need to Prepare for them, by Christina Mills, James Robins, Carl Bergstrom, and Marc Lipsitch
Shinya et al. Influenza virus receptors in the human airway. 2006; 440:435-6.
Stevens et al. Structure and Receptor Specificity of the Hemagglutinin from an H5N1 Influenza Virus. Sciencexpress. 2006.
Transmissibility of 1918 Pandemic Influenza by Christina Mills, James Robin and Mark Lipsitch
Vibound et al. Synchrony, Waves, and Spatial Hierarchies in the Spread of Influenza. Sciencexpress. 2006.
Maritime Disasters
Stemming the Tide: Controlling Introductions of Nonindigenous Species by Ships' Ballast Water (1996)
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (CETS)
*This is a book available for purchase and download to your PC
Emerging Technologies
Real-time Technology Assessment by David H. Guston and Daniel Sarewitz
Nanomedicine by the European Science Foundation, a "Forward Look" report
Strengthening Research and Development for Wind Hazard Mitigation by Charles Meade
Infrastructure/Business Continuity
Acceptable risk as a basis for design by J.K. Vrijling, van Hengel W., Houben RJ, in Reliability Engineering & System Safety 59 (1): 141-150, Jan., 1998
Response to comments by J. Ramsberg on the paper "Acceptable risk as a basis for design" by J.K. Vrijling, van Hengel W., Houben, RJ, in Reliability Engineering & System Safety 67 (2): 211-212, Feb. 2000
RFID Implementation - Sprinkling Sensor Tags from the Sky (Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication) - Interview with Edward Zeng on gathering information in a disaster area
Probabilistic design of water defense systems in The Netherlands by J.K. Vrijling, in Reliability Engineering & System Safety 74 (3): 337-344, Dec. 2000
Leadership
Incident Command System: High Reliability Organizing for Complex and Volatile Task Environment, by Gregory Bigley and Karlene Roberts
Mitigating Hazards Through Continuing Design: The Birth and Evolution of a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, by Peter Madsen, Vinit Desai, Karlene Roberts, and Daniel Wong
General Disaster Preparedness/Risk Assessment, Analysis and Management
(Thinking Out Loud IV) The World Bank
Company Primer on Preparedness and Response Planning for Terrorist and Bioterrorist Attacks by Business Executives for National Security (BENS)
Indicators of Disaster Risk and Risk Management by Omar Cardona
The World Bank
The Fox and the Hedgehog: Myopia about homeland security in US policies on terrorism by James K. Mitchell
Preparing for Future Katrinas, by Robert Litan, The Brookings Institution
The Primacy of Partnership: Scoping a New National Disaster Recovery Policy by James K. Mitchell
Sarewitz, D. R. A. Pielke, Jr, and M. Keykyah, 2003. Vulnerability and Risk: Some Thoughts From A Political and Policy Perspective, Risk Analysis, 23:805-810.
Sustainable Suffering? Reflections on Development and Disaster Vulnerability by Ben Wisner, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics
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