Supplementary Pages:

• Nutrition & Development [Links]

Conferences:

• GIS and Applications of Remote Sensing for Disaster Management [National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and The George Washington University (GWU) Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management Announce this Second Conference. January 19-21, 1999 The George Washington University Marvin Center Washington, D.C., USA. "In January, 1997, NASA and FEMA co-sponsored the first Conference on GIS and Applications of Remote Sensing for Disaster Management to bring together researchers, managers, planners, practitioners and response and mitigation personnel to exchange ideas and information on technology and methods on the use of remote sensing and GIS in disaster and emergency management."

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  Internet Sites:

  Directory of Humanitarian Organizations [ReliefWeb]

  Disaster Recovery Yellow Pages [Locate the crucial, hard-to-find services you need to get your operations back to normal]

  ReliefWeb is a project of the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs (DHA). The purpose of this effort is to strengthen the response capacity of the humanitarian relief community through the timely dissemination of reliable information on prevention, preparedness and disaster response.

  • Search the Relief Web
  • Complex Emergencies
  • THE FINANCIAL TRACKING DATABASE FOR COMPLEX EMERGENCIES - HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
  • Early Warning Information Systems
  • Information on International Emergencies
  FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency)

  American Red Cross

  Economic Handicaps: Hunger, Poverty and Homelessness (Resources)

  OXFAM. "Oxfam is more than a relief agency. Oxfam works now in 80 countries worldwide with the aim of helping people to help themselves. For example, it supports a credit fund in Mali in Africa which helps poor women set up small businesses; supports training in organic gardening and tree planting in Bangladesh; and helps an organisation of tribal people in the Philippines keep land-grabbers off their ancestral lands."

  MSF Médecins sans frontières [MSF Wins 1999 Nobel Peace Prize: The humanitarian medical organisation Midecins Sans Frontieres has won the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize] [see news media for October 15, 1999]

  Humanitarian Assistance Organizations and their Abbreviations

  HandsNet is a national, nonprofit organization that promotes information sharing, cross-sector collaboration and advocacy among individuals and organizations working on a broad range of public interest issues. This website is a preview of what you will find when you join our community."

• Relief for the Relievers
• Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, Chapter 2 Part II: Overview of the Emergency and the Response (The Bukavu influx etc.)

  Academic Disaster Institutes:

  • Disaster Research Center University of Delware
    Disaster Links
    The Disaster Research Center, the first social science research center in the world devoted to the study of disasters, was established at Ohio State University in 1963 and moved to the University of Delaware in 1985. The Center conducts field and survey research on group, organizational and community preparation for, response to, and recovery from natural and technological disasters and other community-wide crises.

  Caritas:

  • Liberia Report, June 3, 1996
  • Missionsärztliches Institut Würzburg Arbeitsgruppe: "Zusammenarbeit in Not und Katastrophen"

    Unser Ziel ist es, die Gesundheit von betroffenen Menschen in Not- und Krisenregionen zu erhalten und zu verbessern. Wir teilen dieses Ziel mit kirchlichen und nichtkirchlichen Partnern in Osteuropa und in den Ländern des Südens. Gemeinsam mit anderen Hilfswerken, besonders mit Caritas international, stehen wir diesen Partnern beratend und aktiv helfend zur Seite, wenn sie uns brauchen.

  RES-Q Global Relief (Seattle) "Life Support Supplies, Equipment and Training to Those in Need, through Fire-Fighting, Emergency Medical Services and Childrens Necessities."

  Disaster and Trauma [Medscape]

  Regularly updated collection of Medscape's key clinical content. Medscape's editors have put together this collection of news, notices, articles, and related links to provide healthcare professionals the latest information and resources related to caring for those affected by the September 11th terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, DC. This information will be updated regularly.

  Komittee Cap Anamur

  Site Map

  Urban Security [Modeling The Cities / The Los Alamos Urban Security Initiative]

  "Each of the megacities on our planet has a unique set of problems related to security, energy, water, nutrition, economics, and the environment. An understanding of these problems allows us to better evaluate vulnerabilities related to the hazards of natural events such as a hurricane or the unnatural event of a terrorist attack. The sheer size of megacities inherently increases the scope of any potential crisis....."

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  Commercial Organizations:

  • Representaciones Internacionales en Latinoamirica e Internet [Argentinia] [Survivor Industries / Kits para Supervivenc]

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  Literature:

• Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies and Management (Blackwell)

  Bates, Frederick L., and Walter Gillis Peacock. Living Conditions, Disasters, and Development: An Approach to Cross-Cultural Comparisons. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1993. [HC79.D45.B38.1993]

  OWEN, BRUCE M., THE ECONOMICS OF A DISASTER : THE EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL / ... [ET AL.].HC107.A47 W323 1995. L = szstx.

  Pan American Health Organization, Pan, Medical supply management after natural disaster. Washington, D.C. : American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the World Health Organization, 1983. xii, 135 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. "Prepared as a supplement to Emergency health management after natural disaster"--Foreword. "Health for all by the year 2000". Spine title: Disasters--medical supplies. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 129. Medical-supplies. Natural-disasters. Disaster-Planning. Disasters. Emergency-Medical-Services. Equipment-and-Supplies. Pan American Health Organization. Disasters--medical supplies. Emergency health management after natural disaster. Scientific publication (Pan American Health Organization) ; no. 438. Health Sciences Serials [614.06 P192p no.438] Shelved under title: Scientific publication - Pan American Health Organization

  The Public health consequences of disasters, Author: NOJI E

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  Geographers Interested in Disasters and/or Relief Activities:

  • Stafanie E. Chang (UW)
  • Harold Foster (Victoria, B.C.)
  • Jonathan Mayer (UW) [Health]

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