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Essential Elements of Researcher/Practitioner Partnerships For Disaster Resilient Communities

Dennis Mileti

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Emergency Management : the Future of All Hazard

Michel Dore

714 KB

Harnessing strengths and building capacity: How Seattle Project Impact and other regional partnerships save lives

Inés Pearce

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Developing a Resiliency Framework in Canada: Challenges and Opportunities

Dave Hutton

625 KB

The Search for Principles of Disaster Management

David Etkin

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How to Accommodate Service and Companion Animals in Evacuations

Colleen Bailey

Adaptive Simulation of Incident Management and Response, Ensuring Emergency Managers are Better Prepared

Chris Dejager

What people really want to know when crises occur

Jim Stanton

Integrated assessment of health risks from environmental stressors

David Briggs

Assessing Health Vulnerabilities of Canadians to a Changing Climate

Peter Berry

Fighting Fire with Fire: Investigating Prescribed Burns for Fuel and Fire Management in Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario

Anne Grant 
Roger Suffling

Earthquake Planning: Applying Lessons Learned Internationally

Maiclaire Bolton 
Jana Fox

Eco-cities to Disaster Resilient Eco-Communities: a concerted approach in the coastal city of Puri (India)

Akhilesh Surjan 
Rajib Shaw

Things Change, We Change:  Planning for Resilience in Coastal Arctic Communities

Kathleen Parewick 
Norm Catto

Mainstreaming disaster preparedness in development planning:  experience on the ground

Nonita Yap
Alice Ng

Natural Hazard Mapping and Assessment in NL Communities

Norm Catto

A Canadian Pilot Project for a GPS-Augmented Tsunami Warning System

Herb Dragert

Monitoring Shaking in Canada’s Cities: Before, During, and After an Earthquake

John Cassidy
Garry Rogers
David McCormack
Sharlie Huffman
Maiclaire Bolton

Landslide hazards and their mitigation along the Sea to Sky corridor

Andrée Blais-Stevens
Oldrich Hungr

Seismic Hazard Mapping in the Ottawa Area, Ontario

Gregory Brooks
James Hunter

Elaine Enarson
Lynn Orstad,
Tracy Porteous,
Dave Hutton,
 Laurie Pearce,
Carol Amaratunga

Earthquake Shaking Probabilities in British Columbia, Canada: Reviewing Risk Assessment

Mark Seemann

Activities of B.C. Government for Management of Seismic Risks in Ground Slopes and Existing Buildings and Risks in Design and Constructione

Steven Kuan
Taro Gurney

City Evacuation Planning

Matthew Harper

Information Communication Technology and Emergency Management

Alison Brooks

Concept of a National Land-use Guide for Risk Reduction

Bert Struik

Where the Land Meets the Ocean: Environmental Management Plan for Tsunami Affected Coastal Areas.

Debashish Das

An Assessment of Institutional Response-and-Recover Strategies in Australia and North America: Lessons for Disaster and Emergency Planning from Recent Environmental Disasters

David King
C. Emdad Haque

International Collaboration on a Natural and Human-induced Environmental Hazards and Disasters Research Programme

Gordon McBean

The Tipping Point - When does Knowledge of Natural Hazards Translate into Personal Preparedness Action?

(Paula) Jane Wynne
Sonia Talwar
Jan Aylsworth

Reducing Risk from Natural Hazards - a Progress Report from Natural Resources Canada - 

Chris Tucker

From Policy to Action to Reduce Impacts of Disasters: A Global Perspective

Maryam Golnaraghi

Role of the Meteorological Service of Canada in Disaster Risk Reduction and Community Resiliency

Paul Whitfield
David Grimes
Magda Little

Canadian Red Cross -  Working with Disaster Affected Populations as Partners: Lessons from the 2004 Tsunami and Earthquake in Indonesia

Jean Slick

Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado at Boulder -  What Katrina Taught Us:  Gaps in Understanding and Practice

Kathleen Tierney

Towards a Sustainable Future: Partnerships for Mainstreaming Risk Reduction

Franklin McDonald

Modeling Indicators of Community Disaster Resilience

Scott Miles 
Stephanie Chang

The role of social capital in adaptation to flood risks in modern urban Russia

Lilia Yumagulova

Building intra and interorganizational resiliency: adaptive fit for better crisis management. CANCELLED

Marie-Christine Therrien

Comparative analysis of the interorganizational links of the Quebec crisis management system during two major crisis: the Saguenay floods in 1996 and the Ice storm that struck southern Quebec in 1998

Louis Côté 
Thierry C. Pauchant 
Daniel Parent

A typology of the managerial values of the Quebec crisis management system during two major crisis: the Saguenay floods in 1996 and the Ice storm that struck southern Quebec in 1998

Daniel Parent 
Louis Côté 
Thierry C. Pauchant

Using deliberative dialogue to explore risk reduction strategies: comments on a process CANCELLED

Sonia Talwar
Murray Journeay Shana Johnstone
Heather Evans
Cameron Chalmers

Pathways: an Analytic-Deliberative Framework for Risk Based Planning in Canada

Murray Journeay Sonia Talwar
Boyan Brodaric
Anne Wein
Richard Bernknopf

Decision analysis for risk reduction planning

Murray Journeay  Anne Wei
Richard Bernknopf
Chang-jo Chung

Web resources for assessing meteorological hazards in BC and Yukon - 

Tina Neale
Bill Taylor

Tap Runs Dry:  documenting lessons learned from past severe droughts in southern Ontario communities

Grace Koshida
Erin Stratton
Joan Klaassen
Marci Vanhoucke

Communities in Atlantic Canada and Emergency Preparedness

Anna Marie Hayes
Ann Robertson

A New Federal Approach to Building Regional Capacity for Health Emergencies

Betsy MacKenzie

Panel: Community vulnerability in the Red River Basin CANCELLED

Toni Morris-Oswald
Robert Stewart
C. Emdad Haque
John Lindsay

Research capacity in emergency preparedness

David Johnson

Maintaining organizational capacity in health care during a pandemic:  Integration of a command structure with business continuity 

Eric Bone

Mobile Triage Centres:  An Operational Pilot

Shawn Grono
David Johnson
Marcia Johnson
Eric Bone

The Fraser River Flood Hazard – An Integrated Approach to Management

Steve Litke

Stakeholder Perspectives on Performance Objectives for Critical Infrastructures in Disasters

Kristine Tatebe
Stephanie Chang

The Impact a First Nations Wholistic Approach to Emergency Planning has on Increasing Community Participation in Preparing for a Pandemic.

Kim Barker
Donna Leon
Shirley Bighead
Janice Willier-Scott Willie Ermine

JELC Critical Infrastructure Initiative

Allan Galambos

The Disaster Response Route Network of the Lower Mainland of British Columbia

Mike Andrews
Doug Allan
Seiki Harada

Pacific Northwest Infrastructure Damage for the Hanukkah Eve Storm 2006

Dorothy Reed

Utility Asset Risk Management for Infrequent Hazard Events within the Triple Bottom Line Framework

Donald Ballantyne Stephanie Chang William Heubach

Natural Resources Canada - Transforming Hazard Knowledge into Action at the Community, Regional and National Levels - Experiences from South America and Canada

Catherine Hickson

New Urbanism: Resilient Communities or 21st Century Pompeii(s)

Philip Berke

Emergency Management Priorities and the Critical Nexus Between Researcher and Practitioner

Cam Filmer

Providing for Worker Care

Laurie Pearce

Taking It To the Kitchen Table: Creating a Resilient Workforce at the RCMP - 

Gord Black
Alice Danjou
 Bill Maxwell

Improving disaster response capacity by supporting the health care workforce

Carol Amaratunga
O'Sullivan et al

Can You Guess the #1 Stressor Reported on Disaster Assignment? Surprising Research Findings on Stressors on Disaster Assignments

Victoria Ross

Communicating recovery: Australian experiences

Susan Nicholls
Christine Healy
Andrew Coghlan

Natural Disaster Reporting in Canadian National Newspaper Media

Lindsay Poulin

Atmospheric Hazards Website in Prairie and Northern Regions

Bob Kochtubajda

Modeling Emergency Public Shelter Needs in the Event of an Earthquake

Cathy Pasion
Stephanie Chang

Communities are prepared to live with disasters: Oxfam’s supports CANCELLED

Provash Mondal

Challenges and Partners in Public Education CANCELLED

Eric Holdeman

Community Vulnerability and Capacity in Post-Disaster Recovery: The Cases of Mano and Mikura Neighbourhoods in the Wake of the 1995 Kobe Earthquake

Etsuko Yasui

Applications of a Critical Infrastructure Analysis in a Municipal Setting

Jody Sydor

Breaking Points – Defining weather impacts on critical infrastructure

Bill Taylor
Tina Neale

Emergency Management in the Water Sector

Gregory Solecki

Enhancing Regional Resilience Through Addressing Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies

Stephanie Chang Timothy McDaniels

A nation-wide assessment of how emergency management organizations relate to high-risk populations

Sara Walsh

The Human Side of Disaster Preparedness: How Vulnerable Populations Respond to Disasters

Adam Clarkson
Gary Poole

Living with disaster on the Canadian prairie: the case of BSE and drought

Elaine Enarson
Diane Martz
Wilfreda Thurston
Carol Amaratunga
Margaret Haworth-Brockman

Psychological Resilience in the Face of Catastrophe:  Pre-Disaster Psychological Preparedness CANCELLED

Melinda Koenig

Lessons from Sri Lanka: Public alerting in rural and remote communities

Peter Anderson Gordon A. Gow

Emergency Response Communications and Multi Agency Events CANCELLED

Catherine Matheson

Public Alerting Association of Canada

Ernest MacGillivray
Doug Allport

Developing Flood Loss Reduction Scenarios Using Simulation-Based Techniques

William Johnstone

Two years on: post-tsunami village-level needs assessment in Sri Lanka CANCELLED

Brent Doberstein

Re-Building Banda Aceh: Humber College Experience with International Disaster Recovery.

Guillermo Acosta
Michael Hatton

From Concept to Capacity Building Against Coastal Surprises: The Experiences of Evolving Coastal Community Resilience (CCR) initiative in the Indian Ocean Region

Atiq Kainan Ahmed

The Integration of Adaptation and Mitigation in Community Response to Climate Related Disasters in the Context of Sustainable Development: Forming Partnerships with a Common Methodology.

Ian Burton
Livia Bizikova

Disaster Simulation Tools for Training and Response during Large Disasters: world café

José R. Marti