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Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado, Boulder

Disaster Zone Podcast

Lori Peek, a professor in the Department of Sociology and director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder is the guest for this podcast. She points to some of the excellent resources that the Natural Hazards Center has to offer. See 5G device, coverage, & access details at T-Mobile.com.

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The United Kingdom's National Risk Register - 2023 Edition

Emergency Planning

The new version presents 89 major hazards and threats that could potentially disrupt life in the United Kingdom and possibly cause casualties and damage. a) As noted by the House of Lords Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning (House of Lords 2021), the NRR is not very "user-friendly" and is not well-known.

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More Tornado Info from ASCE

Recovery Diva

From the American Society of Civil Engineers, Wind Hazard Damage Assessment Group: The StEER report on timpacts from 10 December 2021 tornado outbreak and accompanying media repository can be accessed below. Washington Post Guest Essay: Prevatt (2021) “We can build houses to survive tornadoes like Kentucky suffered.

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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

179] After a number of chapters about the failings to influence construction and land planning, chapter 15 imagines headlines of the future, visions of the good that all-hazard risk management could achieve: 2031 School Life Safety instituted so that classrooms in the 450,000 primary and secondary schools around the globe are less vulnerable.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

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There has also been a rise in geophysical events including earthquakes and tsunamis which have killed more people than any of the other natural hazards under review in this report. Disaster risk is becoming systemic with one event overlapping and influencing another in ways that are testing our resilience to the limit,” Mizutori said.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Korkmaz 2021. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. Select Bibliography of Sources on Turkish R/C Construction Practices Cogurcu, M.T. Construction and design defects in the residential buildings and observed earthquake damage types in Turkey. Ecemis, S.Z. Ozmen, H.B.

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Breakthrough Innovation to Help Overcome Today’s Public Safety Challenges

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Over the past few years, there has been an increase in the frequency of natural disasters and epidemics. According to the EM-DAT Emergency Event Database, there were 432 natural hazard-related incidents in 2021, compared to an average of 357 annual catastrophes for the period 2001-2020. billion in damages ( [link] ).