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Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado, Boulder

Disaster Zone Podcast

However, when it comes to working with people and their relationship and thoughts about all phases of disasters, it is the social sciences that can help us most understand and communicate with the people and populations we serve. She points to some of the excellent resources that the Natural Hazards Center has to offer.

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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

There have recently been some natural hazard events of extraordinary size and power, but they are no more than curtain raisers. Natural hazard impacts are becoming fiercer, more extensive and more frequent. We must also grapple with complexity and intersection with other forms of threat and hazard.

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FEMA Administrator Visits Univ. of CO’s Hazards Center

Recovery Diva

An excerpt: “Among the research topics that could support the agency’s resilience goals are work related to climate migration, risk communication and refining social vulnerability indices. These are issues that are central to the work of CU researchers in IBS and across the university, including in engineering and the physical sciences.

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Foresight

Emergency Planning

A principle of cascading disasters is that the world is ever more closely linked by networks on which we all depend for communications, commerce, enlightenment and entertainment. It can also mean communication over very long distances, leading to the adoption of common agendas among disparate groups of people.

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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. Severe weather emergencies can add stress to communication infrastructure when it is needed most.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Richard Krajeski, presented with transcribed commentary by a dozen participants of a special session held in his memory as part of the July 2020 Natural Hazard Workshop. Buchanan and Chayne Sparagowski give an overview of digital information-sharing, communication, and social media impacts on disaster management.

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Creating effective warnings for all

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By Lorenzo Marchetti, Public Affairs Manager at Everbridge Ilan Kelman, Professor of Disasters and Health, University College London and University of Agder Carina Fearnley, Director, UCL Warning Research Centre, Professor in Warnings and Science Communication, Dept.