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On-Line Resources & References
Canadian Emergency Management Agencies
Provincial/Territorial/Municipal
Emergency Management Agencies
International
Emergency Management Organizations
Crises, Disasters, Relief or Response Organizations
Environmental,
Health and Safety
Research, Education and Applied Technology
Communication and Publications
Emergency Service Associations and EMS, Fire/Rescue, Police
Online
Resources & References - Weather, Alerts, Seismographic Activity, Hazardous
Material Handling
- Canadian National Earthquake
Hazards Program - Reports significant recent earthquakes in or near
Canada, Maps of recent Canadian earthquake activity, Plots of seismograph
network recordings of the last hour's activity, List of recent Canadian
earthquake activity.
- Canadian Transport
Emergency Centre (CANUTEC) - Operated by Transport Canada to assist
emergency response personnel in handling dangerous goods emergencies.
- California
Youth Authority reference to death notification
- cbsnews.cbs.com/network/htdocs/digitaldan/disaster/disasters.htm
- The Center for Research
on Epidemiology of Disaster (CRED) in Belgium
- The Center for
Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado
- Details about the Charlebois,
Quebec earthquake
- Coastal Management
(US)
- http://www.colorado.edu/hazards
- http://www.crid.or.cr/crid
- http://www.csc.noaa.gov/products/nchaz/startup.htm
- http://members.tripod.com/~DisasterOnline/
- Disaster Relief
- Worldwide Disaster Aid information via the internet
- Environment
Canada - Atlantic Region Hurricane and Storm Warnings and condition.
- Environment
Canada - Satellite images updated hourly or every three hours
- http://www.FEMA.gov/library/
- http://www.fhrc.mdx.ac.uk
Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University, UK
- http://www.gdin-international.org
- http://www.hazmit.net
- www.nationalatlas.gov
- www.es.mq.edu.au/NHRC
Natural Hazards Research Center, Macquarie University, Australia
- http://hurricane.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/index.htm
is the NOAA Coastal Services Center (CSC) new project, the Historical Hurricanes
Mapping & Analysis Tool
- The Oklahoma City National
Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
- Online Information
- Realtime updates on global earthquakes, hurricanes, and other environmental
incidents. Excellent links to specific facts related to incident.
- Stanford
University School of Medicine, misc. resources and clinical guides
relating to bioterrorism
- >www.mocd.govt.nz
TEPHRA, A Publication of the New Zealand Ministry of Civil Defense
- www.ngdc.noaa.gov
The National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, Colorado (source for audiovisual
materials
- www.egs.uct.ac.za/dimp
- www.emergency.com
- WHO
Emergency and Humanitarian Action Newsletter
- http://www.riskinstitute.org
operated by the US Public Entity Risk Institute
- US National
Weather Service
- Victim Assistance On Line
that provides guidance and resources for both professionals and others
Canadian
Emergency Management Agencies
Provincial/Territorial/Municipal Emergency Management Agencies
International
Emergency Management Organizations
- Australian Emergency Management
Information Centre - A resource which, through its collection and various
services, promotes and supports all aspects of emergency management.
- The
Australia Bureau of Transport Economics (BTE) on the cost of disasters
- Benfield Greig Hazard Research
Centre (London, UK)
- Business Continuity Institute
- Caribbean EMO network
- Center of Excellence in Disaster
Management and Humanitarian Assistance in Hawaii
- Center
for Disease Control and Prevention
- www.bt.cdc.gov - CDC
- www.cne.go.cr
- European
Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO)
- Federal Emergency Management
Association (FEMA) - Agency responsible for reducing loss of life and
property and protecting the United States critical infrastructure from
all types of hazards through a comprehensive, risk-based, emergency management
program of mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.
- The [Florida]
Capital Area Chapter of the Red Cross
- Florida Alliance for Safe
Homes
- http://www.floods.org
- International Association of
Emergency Managers
- International
Global Disaster Emergency Management Organizations - listing and links
to global emergency management sites.
- www.humanitarian.net
Humanitarian Resource Institute, a global preparedness and response networkx
- xwww.ladpc.gov.il Local
Authorities Confronting Disasters and Emergencies (LACDE), Israel
- Mass Emergency
Project
- Maine
Emergency Management Agency
- http://www.dem.state.mn.us
- Institute of
Civil Defence and Disaster Studies
- www.mentalhealth.org/cmhs/emergencyservices/index.htm
- Mitigation Success
Stories (US)
- National Hurricane Center
(US)
- Natural Disaster Management
(UK)
- Natural Hazards Mitigation
Group - University of Geneva, Switzerland
- National Institute for Urban Search
& Rescue (US)
- The NOAA Coastal
Services Center's (CSC's) Vulnerability Assessment Techniques and Applications
(VATA)
- North
Dakota State University
- www.opcw.nl
- Peru’s Office of
National Defence
- ProMed Mail a program
of the International Society for Infectious
Diseases
- Maryland State EMO
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (US)
- UK Emergency Planning
Society
- UN Office
for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
- The UNISDR Unit for Latin America
and the Caribbeanx
- US Association of State Dam Safety Officials www.damsafety.org
- US Department of the Interior
- US Flash
- US Geological Survey
on line National Water Information System
- (US) Hazards of the Pacific
- US Institute for Business &
Home Safety
- US National Disaster
Medical System
- US National Emergency
Management Association
- US National Fire Plan
- US SAR Task Force www.ussartf.org
- www.ocb.se The Swedish Agency
for Civil Emergency Planning, Sweden
- http://volcanoes.usgs.gov
- Washington State Emergency Response
- Western Disaster Center (US)
- The
World Bank Disaster Management Facility
Crises, Disasters, Relief or Response Organizations
Environmental, Health and Safety
Research, Education and Applied Technology
- http://www.adpc.ait.ac.th
The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center. Includes its newsletter plus numerous
valuable links
- Canadian
Natural Hazards Assessment Project
- Center of Excellence
in Disaster Management - Mission to facilitate civil-military operations
and cooperation through integrated education, training, research, information
management and operational readiness.
- Disaster Research Center
- University of Delaware
- http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/education/
Managed by the Institute for the Study of the Continents (INSTOC) at Cornell
University, the site provides access to a wide range of earth science information.
- http://www.nap.edu/shelves/first
Managed by the National Academies of Science the site has a search engine
of nearly 3,000 related web sites. Information is broken down by content
categories, audience types, authoring sources, and presentation format.
- National
Library of Canada
- National Research Council
(CISTI)
- The
Natural Hazards Center - Located at the University of Colorado, Boulder,
Colorado, USA, is a national and international clearinghouse for information
on natural hazards and human adjustments to hazards and disasters.
- http://stills.nap.edu/shelves/first/
US National Academy of Press reference sites.
- Yahoo
Site - Listing of links regarding various types of disaster incidents
and occurrences.
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