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| E-Mail Lists/Newsletters/Discussion Groups | Organizations & Initiatives |
| Workshops/Conferences | Training |

E-Mail Lists/Newsletters/Discussion Groups

Natural Hazards Center
This site provides a list of publications, new services, e-mail subscriptions, and provides forums for discussion about hazards and risks.

VATA List server
Share your experience with other researchers and practitioners.

Gov.Star
The purpose of this Web-based resource is to provide a national platform for all levels of users to research, locate, call for, and describe proven risk management practices to reduce the occurrence and mitigate the effects of disasters occurring within a wide spectrum of events from flooding to bioterrorism.

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Organizations & Initiatives

Association of State Dam Safety Officials
This national nonprofit organization consists of state and federal dam safety regulators, dam owners and operators, engineering consultants, manufacturers and suppliers, academics, contractors, and others interested in dam safety.

Association of State Floodplain Managers
The Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) is an organization of professionals involved in floodplain management, flood hazard mitigation, the National Flood Insurance Program, and flood preparedness, warning and recovery.

American Planning Association
APA is a nonprofit public interest and research organization committed to urban, suburban, regional, and rural planning. APA and its professional institute, the American Institute of Certified Planners, advance the art and science of planning to meet the needs of people and society.

Disaster News Network
This news service tells the story of disaster response and suggests appropriate ways the public can help survivors. It also facilitates information sharing among disaster responders.

Federal Emergency Management Agency
This new planning section on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Web site focuses on a vision of sustainable communities and shows communities how disaster prevention planning before a disaster strikes, and/or a planned recovery process after a disaster, can serve as a catalyst for making communities more sustainable.

Global Disaster Information Network
This site promotes the global sharing of disaster information between providers and users.

Hazard Mitigation in North Carolina, North Carolina Division of Emergency Management
This site provides information on home protection measures, mitigation funding, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), mitigation planning, risk determination, legal services, publications, documents, presentations, upcoming events, contact information, and mitigation-related links.

Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center
The Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center (HRRC) is located at Texas A&M University. HRRC researchers focus on hazard analysis, emergency preparedness and response, disaster recovery, and hazard mitigation. HRRC is one of only two United Nations (UN) Collaborative Centers in the world that serves the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) as a research and consultant agency with particular emphasis on national disaster plans and their implications for future development.

HazNet
The purpose of HazNet is to enhance the Sea Grant network's contribution to reducing loss of human life, property, and environmental resources from coastal hazards in the United States. It provides an organizational framework through which hazard mitigation information is more effectively and efficiently shared among Sea Grant network programs and outside collaborators.

International Association of Emergency Managers
IAEM is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to promoting the goals of saving lives and protecting property during emergencies and disasters.

International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR)
The United Nations has established the ISDR as a global framework to foster the resiliency of communities to the effects of natural hazards through the implementation of risk management, hazard mitigation, and ultimately sustainable development. It is designed to enable all societies to become resilient to the effects of natural hazards and related technological and environmental disasters, in order to reduce human, economic, and social losses.

Island Vulnerability
Island Vulnerability explores the challenges that isolated geographies face when dealing with risk and disasters by examining the processes which create, sustain, and could be used to reduce their vulnerability.

National Climatic Data Center
The world's largest archive of weather data.

National Emergency Management Agency
NEMA is the professional association for state emergency management directors.

Natural Hazards Center
The Natural Hazards Center, located at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is a national and international clearinghouse for information on natural hazards and human adjustments to hazards and disasters.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
This site provides information on the Earth's environment and the Nation's coastal and marine resources.

Organization of American States (OAS) Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment (USDE)
USDE is a technical cooperation division of the General Secretariat of the OAS that works with member states on policy, program, and project initiatives related to reducing vulnerability of populations and economic and social infrastructure to natural disasters. It supports hemispheric, regional, and national technical assistance, training, and technology transfer activities, as well as serves as the Inter-American Committee on Natural Disaster Reduction (IACNDR) as technical advisor and chair of its Working Group on Vulnerability Assessments and Indexing (VAI).

Pacific Services Center
The NOAA Pacific Services Center (PSC) develops and delivers coastal management information and services to the United States Flag Pacific Islands.

Public Entity Risk Institute
Provides resources for the public, private, and not for profit organizations on the practical enhancement of risk management.

RADIX – Home for Radical Interpretations of Disasters
This site provides working papers, opinion pieces, resources, and links that can help develop radical (fundamental or concerning root causes) interpretations and solutions for disasters. The issues pertain to human rights, cultural and social issues, economic development, sustainable development, and politics.

Regional Vulnerability Assessment
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Regional Vulnerability Assessment (ReVA) program is an approach to regional-scale, priority-setting assessment being developed by EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD). ReVA will expand cooperation among the laboratories and centers of ORD by integrating research on human and environmental health, ecorestoration, landscape analysis, regional exposure and process modeling, problem formulation, and ecological risk guidelines.

Risk Analysis and Information Management
Risk Analysis and Information Management (RAIM) branch's mission is to improve the utility and accessibility of scientific information within the coastal science community. The ultimate goal is to develop enhanced predictive capabilities and risk management options for use by natural resource managers, public health agencies, industry, and other partners. RAIM is part of the NOAA Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research (CCEHBR).

Society for Risk Analysis
The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) provides an open forum for all those who are interested in risk analysis. Risk analysis is broadly defined to include risk assessment, risk characterization, risk communication, risk management, and policy relating to risk. Interests include risks to human health and the environment, both built and natural.

State Emergency Management Agencies
This site provides contact information for all state emergency management agencies in the United States and its Territories.

United States Geological Survey (USGS)
The USGS, a bureau of the Department of the Interior, provides reliable scientific information to describe and understand the Earth; minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters; manage water, biological, energy and mineral resources; and enhance and protect quality of life.

United Nations Development Program
Provides information on disaster management.

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Workshops/Conferences

Forum on Risk Management and Assessment of Natural Hazards

Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder

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Training

Community Vulnerability Assessment Tool Workshop
The purpose of this course is to help coastal resource and emergency managers use the Community Vulnerability Assessment Tool (CVAT) to assess a community's risk and vulnerability to hazards, including floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes.

Emergency Information Infrastructure Project (EEIP) Virtual Forum
The EEIP is a non-profit educational organization, dedicated to enhancing the practice of emergency management, and thereby public safety, through offering professional development opportunities to practitioners and other interested persons. The principal way we work to achieve this goal is through presentation in the "Virtual Forum" of timely, disaster-related topics by experts in their fields, by means of Internet-based Live Chat (text) technology. There is no charge to participants, and all are welcome.

FEMA Emergency Management Institute
EMI provides a nationwide training program of resident courses, as well as and nonresident courses, to enhance U.S. emergency management practices.

Introductory Training Course for Hazard Mitigation Officers
This course provides newcomers with a common base of knowledge about the issues they will face and the priorities of a hazard mitigation officer. The curriculum may also be useful for emergency managers who need to consider hazard mitigation in their management work.

Understanding Your Risks: Identifying Hazards and Estimating Losses
This interactive tutorial illustrates how to conduct a vulnerability assessment for use in the development of hazard mitigation strategies.

Water Environment Federation
The Water Environment Federation, through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is currently offering a series of training events to assist wastewater utilities of all sizes in evaluating and determining approaches for reducing their vulnerability to man-made threats and natural disasters.

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