Disaster Roundtable of the National Academies

Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative, Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy, National Research Council (2012)

Crisis Standards of Care: A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response, Board on Health Sciences Policy, National Research Council (2012)

Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington: Past, Present, and Future, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, National Research Council (2012)

Induced Seismicity Potential in Energy Technologies, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, National Research Council (2012)

Dam and Levee Safety and Community Resilience: A Vision for Future Practice, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, National Research Council (2012)

Barriers to Integrating Crisis Standards of Care Principles into International Disaster Response Plans: Workshop Summary, Board of Health Science Policy, National Acedemy of Science's Institute of Medicine (2012)

Building Community Disaster Resilience Through Private-Public Collaboration, Geographical Science Committee, National Research Council (2011)

Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters: The Perspective from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi: Summary of a Workshop, National Research Council (2011)

How Communities Can Use Risk-Assessment Results: Making Ends Meet: Summary of the June 3, 2010, Workshop of the Disasters Roundtable, from the Disasters Roundtable of the National Academies (2011)

Disaster Risk Management in an Age of Climate Change: A Summary of the April 3, 2008 Workshop of the Disasters Roundtable, from the Disasters Roundtable of the National Academies (2009)

Roundtable Workshop 23: Making the World Safer from Disasters: The U.S. Role, summary of a workshop of the Disasters Roundtable of the National Academies (2008)

Improved Seismic Monitoring - Improved Decision-Making: Assessing the Value of Reduced Uncertainty, from the National Academy of Science Board on Earth Sciences and Resources (2005)

Creating a Disaster Resilient America: Grand Challenges in Science and Technology: Summary of a Workshop, October 28, 2004 forum, Disasters Roundtable of the National Academies (2005)

Public Health Risks of Disasters: Communication, Infrastructure, and Preparedness -- Workshop Summary, from the Board on Health Sciences Policy (HSP) and the Disasters Roundtable of the National Academies (2005)

Hazards Watch: Reducing the Impacts of Disasters Through Improved Earth Observations -- Summary of a Workshop, October 22, 2003 forum, Disasters Roundtable of the National Academies (2004)

Partnerships for Reducing Landslide Risk: Assessment of the National Landslide Hazards Mitigation Strategy, from the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources (2004)

Where the Weather Meets the Road: A Research Agenda for Improving Road Weather Services, from the Transportation Research Board and the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (2004)

Alerting America: Effective Risk Communication - Summary of a Forum, October 31, 2002 from the Natural Disasters Roundtable (2003)

Communicating Uncertainties in Weather and Climate Information: A Workshop Summary, from the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (2003)

Fair Weather: Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services, from the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, and the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (2003)

The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program at Twenty-Five Years: Accomplishments and Challenges -- Summary of a Workshop, February 20, 2003, Washington, DC from the Natural Disasters Roundtable (2003)

Assessment of Proposed Partnerships to Implement a National Landslide Hazards Mitigation Strategy: Interim Report, from the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources (2002)

American Hazardscapes: The Regionalization of Hazards and Disasters, edited by Susan L. Cutter (2001)

Facing the Unexpected: Disaster Preparedness and Response in the United States, from the National Academies Press (2001)

To Burn or Not to Burn: Summary of the Forum on Urban/Wildland Fire, January 26, 2001, Washington, DC from the National Research Council (2001)

Risk Analysis and Uncertainty in Flood Damage Reduction Studies, from the Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources (2000)

Posted June 2000; Last revised June 2015.

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