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Handling Mass Death by Integrating the Management of Disasters and Pandemics
Handling Mass Death by Integrating the Management of Disasters and Pandemics: Lessons from the Indian Ocean Tsunami, the Spanish Flu and Other Incidents Joseph Scanlon, Terry McMahon, Coen van Haastert (2007)
Protecting Europe's Critical Infrastructures: Problems and Prospects
The European Union has become increasingly involved with protecting the security and safety of European citizens. The latest addition to this new policy space is critical infrastructure protection (CIP) at the EU level
National Science Foundation research grant
Oklahoma State, College of Computing Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and University of California have received a NSF grant of $700,000 to study rescue and recovery efforts by first responders after September 11 and the April 1995 Oklahoma City bomb
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Awards Grants
The US Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) has awarded ten $200,000 DNI Fellows grants to scientists
Dutch gamble 10 million euros on crisis response
The Dutch government has awarded 10 million euros for research into gaming for training and crisis response
A Study of Petroleum Refineries
Resource Availability, Commitment and Environmental Reliability & Safety: A Study of Petroleum Refineries
EU study of IT infrastructure
The draft report of a study into the Availabilty and Robustness of Electronic Communications Infrastructure commisioned by the European Commission from Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs has been released
Frequency of Man-Made Disasters in the 20th Century
Research by Les Coleman of Department of Finance, The University of Melbourne analyses two disaster databases maintained by the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters and by Emergency Management Australia
Climate change to blame for Maya and Tang demise?
Climate change could have caused the collapse of Maya and Tang civilisations
