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Hazards and Academic Standards: What is Mandated in New England?

God and Nature: An Analysis of Post Katrina and Asian Tsunami Sermons

Hazards Geographers: A Decade of Change

Southern Extent of Tornado Alley

Geography and Nanotechnology

Charcoal production: Adaptive response to Hurricane Dean or resource nightmare?

Through the Lens of Katrina: A Historical Geography of the Social Patterns of Flood Exposure in New Orleans, 1970-2005

The Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI) - Zooming in to a Local Scale to Meet the Needs of the Drought Monitoring Community

Driving in the Sunshine State: Vehicular Toxic Emissions and Health Disparities

Analysis of Lidar Elevation Data for Improved Delineation of Lands Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise

Push-pin Geography: Implications for the design of user-centered interfaces for Internet mapping

'Paws' and Click: Web-based Disaster Preparedness Information for Pets

On Fire, Up A Creek and Blown Away: An Assessment of Geo-Information Employment During the 2005 Kashmir Earthquake Relief Effort And Recommendations To Improve Future Utilization.

Innovative Climate and Economic Analysis for Earlier Famine Early Warning

Mapping and Modeling Coastal Flooding Vulnerability from Impervious Runoff on the Outer Banks, NC

Development of the Kentucky Snowfall Index Scale

Fragmentary Worlds: Unnatural Perceptions of and Shadowy Responses

Developing a Hazardscape: cougar-human conflicts in Boulder and Colorado Springs

Warning Behavior and Response: An Investigation of Public Response During the Palm Beach County Tornado of 7 August 2003

Have We Misidentified 100-Year Rainfalls?

USGS Coastal Change Hazards: Making a Web Portal More than a Map Server

Integrating Socioeconomic and Geologic Hazards Data to Identify Labor Market Exposure in a Simulated Southern California Earthquake

Social hazard modeling of terrorism: Pragmatics and Geovisualization

Managing Flash Floods: Risk Perception from a Cultural Perspective

A Review of GIS Technologies Deployed by the New York City Fire Department during the World Trade Center Operation

Who's Sustainability? And How? Problems and Opportunities of Global Processes

Web-Based Hazards and Social Vulnerability Assessment

Catastrophe at Greensburg, Kansas: Living through Nature's Severest Windstorm

Urbanization and Flood Risk in Inland Southern California

Enhancing Communication and Hazard Resiliency in Disadvantages Communities: Linking Patterns of Free Response to Underlying Cultural Meaning

Utilizing coastal vulnerability assessments in National Park Units to address the relative importance of the geologic and physical factors that define a coastal vulnerability index

The Spatial Distribution of Industrial Pollution in Houston: Analyzing the Health Hazards

Hot and Deadly: An Analysis of Hyperthermia Related Deaths in Texas, 2000-2004.

The Value of a Comprehensive Emergency Management System: A Longitudinal Study of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas

A GIS-based Flood Loss Model: Urban Campus Case Study

Land Use Policy and Practice in Karst Terrains: Towards a Regulatory Framework

Geography of US Emergency Evacuations, 1995-2005

Hazard Risk Assessment Software and Reality

Emerging Research Opportunities in Tropical Cyclone-Climate Interactions at the Intersections of Paleotempestology and Tropical Cyclone Dynamics

Modeling Potential Chemical Exposure in the Continental United States

Improving Flood Risk Communication: Lay Descriptions, Concerns and Suggestions

Using visualization in Google Earth to bring scientific and environmental issues closer to the global public

Assessing the Potential for Shoreline Changes Due to Sea-Level Rise Along the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Region

The social construction of risk: destructive development and the erosion of resilience among pastoral nomads in Ethiopia

The Enterprise, Alabama, Tornado Disaster of 1 March 2007: Previous Experience and the Perception of Hazard

Urban Evacuations 1985 to 2007

Lightning Fatalities in the United States: An Assessment of Risk and Vulnerabilities

Environmental Hazards Assessment in Doline Karst Areas

The mental health impacts of major floods; a perspective from medical geography

Vulnerability Analysis using HAZUS and CAMEO

Vulnerability Before, Mortality After? Investigating the Geographical Relationship between Social Vulnerability and Hazard Mortality

Tribal Drought Planning in the United States: With a Case Study of the Hualapai Tribe

An Examination of Regional, National, and Municipal Roles in Hazard Mitigation in Honduras

An Assessment of How the National Weather Service Warns for Ice Storms

Coasting to Destruction: LIDAR Assessment of American Seacliffs

Natural Hazards in Costa Rica

Precautionsim Towards Industrial Hazards: The Cold War Roots

Promoting social justice in climate change adaptation strategies for Aboriginal Australia

Spatial Database of Mitigation Efforts in Central America

Development of a Community-based Severity Index for Tornado Events

A Case Study in Identifying Vulnerable Populations in the City of Tampa, Florida

Vulnerability Impacts Due to Climate Change in Suffolk County, New York

Simulating evacuation shadows

Places of Devastation or Opportunities? Examining role of blaming in recovery of places affected by hazards

Mapping of Hazards and Risks: An Historical Overview

Mapping Vulnerability to Natural Hazards in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1901 to Present

Comparison of Risk Communication Processes between Environmental and Bioterrorist Hazards

The Philadelphia 1993 Extreme Urban Heat Event: Putative Health Hazards in the Urban Environment

Post-disaster parks: opportunities and obstacles

Flooding Risk and Human Vulnerability in Ghana-Accra

A Comprehensive Evaluation of the NCDDC Coastal Risk Atlas (CRA) In Reference to Hurricane Katrina Utilizing Environmental, Economic and Socio-Cultural Geospatial Data

Keeping it Realistic: Simple Geographic Approaches to Risk Assessment

Communicating Tsunamis: Patterns in the educational sources of at risk areas in Humboldt County, CA

The Impact of Risk Perception on the Spread of Infectious Disease, Implications for Agent Based Modeling

Vulnerability of Coastal Communities in Jamaica to the Hurricane Hazard: Case Study of Portland Cottage, in Jamaica

Toward an Integrative Computational Modeling and Analysis Framework for Climate Extremes and Their Impacts

An Ecology of Convergence: Volcanic Hazards, Conservation Regimes, and Traditional Resource Use in Xalitzintla, Mexico




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