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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.

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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. These root causes are also well documented.

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The United Kingdom's National Risk Register - 2023 Edition

Emergency Planning

It is the public face of the National Security Risk Assessment (NRSA), a document (and a process) that has various security classifications and is generally not available to citizens and organisations. Over the years this document has acquired momentum based on a solid commitment to persist with it and create periodic revisions.

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Tsunami Threat in the Pacific NW

Disaster Zone Podcast

One significant natural hazard risk that the West Coast of the United States has comes from tsunamis. Dynamis , a leading provider of information management software and security solutions, is a sponsor of this podcast. One significant natural hazard risk that the West Coast of the United States has comes from tsunamis.

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Building for Disaster Resilience

Disaster Zone Podcast

Building for disaster resilience requires a concerted effort to build disaster resilient buildings with new building materials and siting buildings in the right location to limit the impact of natural hazards. Dynamis , a leading provider of information management software and security solutions, is a sponsor of this podcast.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

For example, counter-terrorism policy and policy against natural hazards can be quite different. Taxonomy can start with basic distinctions (natural, technological, social, intentional and composite) and then proceed to further divisions and subdivisions. Disasters 42(S2): S265-S286. Krausmann, E., Girgin and A. Necci 2019.

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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Emergency Planning

Civil protection, in the form of locally-based disaster response capacity, would begin to emerge in the following decade, which would end with the inauguration of the United Nations Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.