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  Report, Designing Educational Opportunities for the Hazards Manager of the 21st Century, October 22-24, 2003

  Deborah S.K. Thomas and Dennis S. Mileti

  "As emergency/hazards management has professionalized, the need for higher education opportunities is ever-increasing. In order to address issues surrounding higher education opportunities for emergency/hazards managers, this workshop was convened on October 22-24, 2003, by the Natural Hazard Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Colorado at Denver in partnership with the FEMA Higher Education Project with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Fifty-five leaders from the hazards community addressed issues surrounding educational needs."

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  Conference Proceedings, Planning Ahead: Reducing Flood Losses in the 21st Century, May 24-28, 1999

  Association of State Floodplain Managers. Conference

  Proceedings of the twenty-third annual conference of the Association of State Floodplain Managers held in Portland, Oregon, from May 24 to 28, 1999.

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  Conference Proceedings, Times are Changing: Flood Mitigation Technology, May 18-22, 1998

  Association of State Floodplain Managers. Conference

  Proceedings of the twenty-second annual conference of the Association of State Floodplain Managers held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from May 18 to 22, 1998.

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  Conference Proceedings, Floodplain Management in a Multi-Faceted World, April 28 - May 2, 1997

  Association of State Floodplain Managers. Conference

  Proceedings of the twenty-first annual conference of the Association of State Floodplain Managers held in Little Rock, Arkansas from April 28 to May 2, 1998

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  Conference Proceedings, Twenty Years Later: What We have Learned since the Big Thompson Flood, July 13-15, 1996

  Eva Gruntfest

  Proceedings of a meeting held in Fort Collins, Colorado, about lessons learned from the 1976 flood of the Big Thompson River in Colorado. Volume edited by Eva Gruntfest.

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  Conference Proceedings, Coast to Coast: 20 Years of Progress, June 10-14, 1996

  Association of State Floodplain Managers. Conference

  Proceedings of the twentieth annual conference of the Association of State Floodplain Managers held in San Diego, California, from June 10 to 14, 1996.

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  Report, Tornadoes in the Districts of Jamalpur and Tangail in Bangladesh, 1996

  Thomas W. Schmidlin and Yuichi Ono

  "A series of tornadoes killed at least 605 persons in the districts of Jamalpur and Tangail in Bangladesh on the evening of 13 May 1996. The objective of this study is to understand the reason why so many fatalities occurred from the tornadoes. Bangladesh, one of the developing countries in Asia, has very different natural and human environments from developed countries like the United States. Those differences are considered key to understanding the current research question.

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  Conference Proceedings, From the Mountains to the Sea: Developing Local Capabilities, May 22-26, 1995

  Association of State Floodplain Managers. Conference

  Conference proceedings from the nineteenth annual conference of the Association of State Floodplain Managers held in Portland, Maine, from May 22 to 26, 1995.

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  Report, Farmers' and Public Responses to the 1994-95 Drought in Bangladesh: A Case Study, 1995

  Bimal Kanti Paul

  "Droughts are recurrent features in Bangladesh. They affect plant growth, leading to loss of crop production, food shortages, and for many people, starvation. The main objective of this study was to examine the means by which residents of a drought affected area of Bangladesh cope with this hazard."

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  Report, Self Organization in Disaster Response and Recovery: The Maharashtra, India Earthquake of September 30, 1993, 1995

  Louise K. Comfort

  "This report presents findings from a Quick Response study of self organizing procedures in disaster response generated by the Maharashtra, India Earthquake of September 30, 1993."

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  Conference Proceedings, All Together: Comprehensive Watershed Management, May 8-13-1994

  Association of State Floodplain Managers. Conference

  Conference proceedings from the eighteenth annual conference of the Association of State Floodplain Managers held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from May 8 to 13, 1994.

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  Report, Children of Iniki: Effects of Evacuation and Intervention, August 25, 1994

  Roger Saburo Hamada

  A study looking at the incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder in children after Hurricane Iniki in Kauai, Hawaii.

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  Report, Utilization of Amateur Radio in Disaster Communications

  Lynn Ellen Edwards

  "The purpose of this working paper is to explore the use of amateur radio as a provider of supplemental communications for disaster relief and disaster control agencies."

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  Report, Hurricane Iniki: Psychological Functioning Following Disaster, 1994

  David N. Sattler and Charles Kaiser

  A study that assessed survivors of Hurricane Iniki in Kauai, Hawaii, and documented "subjects' psychological and psychophysiological distress, coping responses, use of mental health services, assistance received from various agencies, loss of property, and preparation for the hurricane."

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  Report, Immediate Emotional Responses to the Southern California Firestorms, 1994

  E. Alison Holman and Roxane Cohen Silver

  "It is often assumed that immediate emotional responses to a disaster will invariably and uniformly be negative. It is also commonly assumed that the severity of trauma has a 'dose-response' relationship with the severity of distress experienced post-disaster. The present study tested the validity of these assumptions in a sample of residents from communities affected by the South California firestorms."

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  Report, Interdisciplinary Quick Assessment Strategy to Support Decision-Making in Disaster Operations: The Costa Rica Earthquake, April 22, 1991, 1994

  Louise K. Comfort

  "This report presents findings from a quick response study to Costa Rica following the April 22, 1991, earthquake in the Valle de Estrella, on the Caribbean slope of the Cordiller de Talamanca, close to the southeastern border with Panama."

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  Report, Investigation of September 2, 1992, Nicaragua Tsunami, 1994

  Jane Preuss

  "On September 2, 1992, a tsunami was generated by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast of Nicaragua. The research focus was on the determination of societal impacts with particular interest on relationships between land use and damaging patterning as well as integrative and secondary impacts."

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  Report, Residential Loss and Displacement among Survivors of the 1993 Altadena Fire, 1994

  Norma S. Gordon, Carl A. Maida, Norman L. Farberow, and Linda Fidell

  A report examining "1) the effect of loss, damage and threatened loss on the psychological state of fire victims, 2) the effect of fire preparedness on victim response, and 3) the impact of the media on coping behavior" on victims of the 1993 Altadena, California, fire.

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  Report, Risk Factors for Death in the 27 March 1994 Georgia and Alabama Tornadoes, 1994

  Thomas W. Schmidlin and Paul S. King

  "Field surveys were made one week after tornadoes killed 40 persons and injured over 300 in rural regions of Alabama and Georgia USA on 27 March 1994. Surveys were completed for samples of persons killed and persons in the paths of the tornadoes but survived to determine whether there were differences in personal characteristics, behavior, or location between the two groups."

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  Report, Social Response to the 1994 Northridge California Earthquake, Fall 1994

  Paul W. O'Brien

  "The final report on the 1994 Northridge earthquake that struck Southern California on January 17, 1994. Immediately following the occurrence of the quake, this researcher was sent to the stricken area."

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  Report, Social Response to the Second A Alert of the Parkfield Earthquake Prediction Experiment, December 1993

  Paul W. O'Brien

  "The primary purpose of this research was to investigate the social response to the A-alert. Specifically the public was targeted to form the core of the project. In addition, governmental agencies and the private sector were questioned about what effect, if any, the A-alert had on them."

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  Conference Proceedings, Cross Training: Light the Torch, March 16-18, 1993

  Association of State Floodplain Managers. Conference

  Proceedings of the seventeenth annual conference of the Association of State Floodplain Managers held in Atlanta, Georgia, from March 16 to 18, 1993

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  Report, Guidelines for the Uniform Definition, Identification, and Measurement of Economic Damages from Natural Hazard Events, 1993

  Charles W. Howe and Harold C. Cochrane

  "This set of guidelines is intended as a primer for personnel responsible for the identification and measurement of damages from natural hazard events."

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  Report, Map Use During and After Hurricane Andrew, 1993

  Ute J. Dymon

  "Two questions were the focus of our research. 1) How were maps used by emergency personnel and by the public during and after Hurricane Andrew? and 2) What kinds of maps were needed during and after the disaster? Interviews were conducted with emergency personnel in the Andrew Disaster Field Office and with hurricane victims in the communities of Goulds, Perrine and Homestead."