This list is under construction. Date of last update is 5 April 2000.

Publication and Archive Index Links

Disaster Research Center

(A+) extensive holdings of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware with ordering instructions - includes books, Monographs, Reports, articles, Preliminary Papers, dissertations

Civil Defense Perspectives

(A-) newsletter file from 1990 to date of the Physicians for Civil Defense, a group of pro-Civil Defense physicians, with wide variety of topics, some of which only moderately relate to Civil Defense

RAND Publications

(B) index to and ordering instructions for RAND research publications, including Reports, books, Issue Papers, and Research Briefs

National Severe Storms Laboratory

(A) extensive publications list and abstracts of research on severe storms (flooding, tornadoes, thunderstorms, wind storms, lightning, hail, winter storms)

Emergency Preparedness Canada Research Information

(A) national disaster database in either hard copy or electronic format and extensive file of readable technical reports

Public Shelter

(A-) Civil Defense archive with a focus on women; includes a variety of text and picture material from United States Civil Defense in the 1960s

ABAG Publications: Earthquake Preparedness

(A-) Association of Bay Area Governments publications on hazard mitigation, transportation and housing impacts, hazardous materials, and liability and hazard maps

Caltech Seismological Laboratory Preprints

(B) catalog and archive of full papers for ongoing seismological technical research that has not yet been published - these papers presume a high degree of seismological knowledge

Western States Seismic Policy Council Member's Tsunami Publications

(A) list of brochures, plans, bibliographies, and reports on tsunamis published by five states and one Canadian province with links to the documents

Tsunai Publications at National Geophysical Data Center

(B+) summaries and ordering information for ten publications of the Center on historic and recent tsunami events

Topical Papers, New Zealand Ministry for Emergency Management

(A) abstracts and downloadable files for research papers, emergency management strategies, and other issues papers relating to emergency management in New Zealand

Home Office Publications

(A) selection of statements in Parliament, speeches and correspondence, planning and exercise design handbooks, public education materials, and archive of Civil Protection magazines

Emergency Information Infrastructure Partnership Virtual Library

(A+) archive of transcripts of on-line weekly presentations on a variety of emergency management topics from 1998, collection of professional papers submitted by Partnership participants

National Emergency Management Association Document Search

(A+) readable files of committee meeting minutes, position papers, reports, testimony, and resolutions reflecting state concerns about emergency management programs at the national level

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