LINKS

Categories:

Disaster Management
 Risk Analysis
Development
Argentina
Honduras
Nicaragua
Meteorology
Tropical Cycones
Floods
Earthquakes

Disaster Management

World Bank Disaster Management Facility
Provention Consortium
Managing Catastrophic Risk Program at Wharton
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)
United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, especially site on disaster costs
University of Wisconsin Disaster Management Center
Centro de Coordinación para la Prevención de los Desastres Naturales en América Central (CEPREDENAC)
The Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response Association
PAHO Disaster/Humanitarian Assistance
Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center Home
Global Emergency Managment System
EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database
Disaster Finder! a search service for disasters and disaster management provided by NASA
The Disaster Center
ReliefWeb: Map Centre reference and thematic maps concerning current and past disasters
Información relacionada con el manejo de desastres site in Nicaragua
excellent Primer on Natural Hazard Management in Integrated Regional Development Planning by the OAS
Karlsruhe

Risk Analysis

Swiss Reinsurance Company (Swiss Re) and their natural catastrophe publications
Munich Reinsurance Company (Munich Re)
Risk Prediction Initiative (RPI)
Risk Management Solutions (RMS)
RiskWorld, more than just disaster risk
Applied Insurance Research (AIR) and their publications
Estimating the Risk an article on earthquake loss estimation
The Caribbean Disaster Mitigation Project main site, along with links to two of its studies: Insurance, Reinsurance and Catastrophe Protection in the Caribbean and A PML Study of Critical Infrastructure in Three Caribbean Island States

Development: Macroeconomics and Poverty

World Bank, esp. sites on working with data, country data, and data by topic
Inter-American Development Bank and its data site
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Center for International Development at Harvard
International Economic Data, an amazing resource
CHASS Data Centre at the University of Toronto, home of the Penn World Tables
Poverty resources collected by the World Bank's PovertyNet
Joint Center for Poverty Research cooperation between Northwestern and the University of Chicago
The Virtual Library on Microcredit
links to development research and analysis

Argentina

Ministerio de Economia
Banco de Datos Climatologicos

Honduras

Environment, Infrastructure, and Resource Maps for Central America by USGS, includes Mitch impacts
general Honduras links, more links, more links, and yet more links
Hurricane Mitch

Nicaragua

Emergencias y Desastres Naturales en Nicaragua
Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territoriales (INETER)
Banco Central de Nicaragua
Red de Desarrollo Sostenible de Nicaragua
Poverty and Food Security
InfoNicaragua: Sociedad y Cultura: Nicaragua
Governments on the WWW: Nicaragua
Commercial Section, U.S. Embassy Managua, Nicaragua
Nicaragua Online

Meteorology

How the weather works
Guide to Meteorology
AgriGator Weather Sites
Allentown Weather Center WWW Weather Links
NOAA's Weather Information Superhighway
Organized Weather Links (OWL)

Tropical Cyclones

USGS Hurricane and Extreme Storm Impact Studies
Canadian Hurricane Centre
Images of hurricanes and storms
Información sobre Tormentas y Huracanes
Hurricane and Natural Disaster Brochure

Floods

Floods
Annotated Bibliography of Web Pages Related to Flooding
hrw river basin modelling
Hydrology Team Page
Hydrology Research Group
1997 Publications on Floods
Water and Wastewater Related Links
NWS Hydrologic Information Center Home Page
NWS Office of Hydrology (NOAA/NWS/OH)
NOVA floods
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA flood fact sheet
USGS Water Resources
SAST USGS GIS project
EPA Water
American Water Works Association AWWA
Info on HEC

Earthquakes

USGS National Earthquake Information Center: Earthquake Information for the World
NEIC: Earthquake Frequently Asked Questions
Applied Technology Council
California Department of Conservation's Division of Mines and Geology
California Institute of Technology Seismological Laboratory
Earthquake Education Center
Earthquake Engineering Research Center
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
EQE International
EQNet
Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology
National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project
National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program
National Geophysical Data Center
NGDC Earthquake Strong Motion Database
NGDC Natural Hazards Database
NGDC Significant Earthquake Database
Natural Hazards Research Centre
Northern California Earthquake Data Center
Recent Worldwide Earthquakes With Maps
Recent Earthquakes
Seismosurfing the Internet
University of Washington Seismology and Earthquake Information
International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR)
National Hazard Data
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)
Eye on the World- has weather-related catastrophes and more
FEMA mitigation page
International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters
Natural Hazards Center at Boulder
Centro de Coordinación para la Prevención de los Desastres Naturales en América Central


Natural Catastrophes and Developing Countries Project
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
tel (+43) 2 236 8070 fax (+43) 2 236 71313

 

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