Session Summaries
2008 Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop
Plenary Sessions
Warnings and Communication Track
- Communicating Flood Risk—Behind the Levees
- Warning and Communication as Social Processes
- Disaster Strikes, City in Flames! News at 11
- Early Warning and Rapid Response Technology for Hazard Events
Communities, Organizations, and Resilience Track
- Defining and Developing Disaster Resilience
- Coordinating Community-Based Organizations and Volunteers
- Disaster, Faith and Faith-Based Organizations
- Issues in Business Continuity Research and Practice
The Front Line Track
- Dealing with the Dead in Pandemics and Disasters
- Climate Change and Hazards Mitigation
- Working the Legislative Process
International/Global Track
- The Role of Engineering Science in Mitigating Large-Scale Hazards
- Gender Specific Disaster Efforts
- The Urbanization Challenge
- Remote Sensing of Catastrophic Events
No Track
- Teaching About Hazards and Disasters: Strategies and Resources
- Presidential Candidates and the Future of Emergency Management
- Post-Katrina Federal Emergency Management Changes
- Early Warning for Extreme Hydrometeorological Events in India
Research To Policy To Practice Sessions
- New Professionals
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Assessing Risk
- Information Communication Technology and Disasters
- NASA DEVELOP Program
- Toxic Disasters: Long-Term Mental Health Consequences
- New Horizons in Dutch-American International Cooperation
- Global Holistic Analysis of Hurricane Katrina
- Quick Response Research—From Proposal to Possibilities