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Artist's Rendering
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Volcanic Eruption

Manila, Philppines, 1991

volcanic eruption

Pinatabu Volcano Eruption

 

Affiliations

École des Mines de Paris
Industrial Safety Chair: http://www.cindy.ensmp.fr/isc/ 
Resilience Engineering: http://www.resilience-engineering.org/

Independent Levee Investigation Team, New Orleans Systems Appendix H: Coping with Mother Nature, Human Nature and Technology's Unintended Consequences. (Authored by Edward Wenk, Jr.. 2006.)

Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado at Boulder http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/

USDA Forest Service, Fire Aviation and Management http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/

University of California Law Library, Disasters and the Law http://128.32.29.133/disasters.php

University of California School of Law, Disaster Law http://www.law.berkeley.edu/centers/envirolaw/disasterlaw.html

Wildland Fire Lessons http://www.wildfirelessons.net/Home.aspx

US Army Corp of Engineers Flood Risk Analysis
USACE IPET (Interagency Performance Evaluation Taskforce):
https://ipet.wes.army.mil/
USACE LAPCR (Louisiana Coastal Protection & Restoration):
http://www.lacpr.usace.army.mil/ 
USACE New Orleans Flood Risk:
http://nolarisk.usace.army.mil/ 
USACE Hurricane Protection Decision Chronology:
http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/inside/products/pub/hpdc/hpdc.cfm
USACE New Orleans District background
http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/
USACE Research and Development Center (risk analysis background
documents):
http://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/
USACE publications relating to risk analysis (levees, dams, see
attached levee reliablity doc):
http://www.usace.army.mil/publications/
USACE recent summary Presidential Commission on Risk analysis:
http://www.riskworld.com/riskcommission/Default.html

USACE Risk Analysis for Water Resources Investment Research Program Report: Evaluating the Reliability of Existing Levees. (Authored by Tomas F. Wolff and Assistants, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University. 2006.)

USACE Report: Risk Informed Decision Process. (Authored by David A. Moser, Chief Economist, US Army Corps of Engineers. 2006.)

 

 

 

 

 

Union City, Oklahoma, 1973
union city tornado

Tornado

Photo: NOAA

(Location, date unknown)

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Tornado

Photo: NOAA

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