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AirDisaster.Com: Provides information about aviation accidents and stories related to air safety. Includes crash photographs and videos, eyewitness reports, full text of investigative reports, and a glossary of specific terms. Information can be searched by keyword and an accident notification service is available.
Author: Kilroy, Chris & Morrell, Darryl
Subjects: aircraft, disasters
DeweyClass: 387.7
Resource type: documents, images, moving images
American Experience: Meltdown at Three Mile Island: Set of documents about a nuclear accident which took place in the United States in 1979. Features include an overview of how a nuclear reactor operates, a Shockwave animation of what happened at Three Mile Island, a nuclear power timeline, brief biographies of key personalities, and a teacher's guide.
Author: PBS/WGBH
Subjects: disasters, nuclear energy
DeweyClass: 363.3
Resource type: documents
Challenger Accident: Collection of resources relating to the accident which destroyed the Challenger space shuttle on 28th January 1986. Resources cover a range of topics including engineering considerations, the cultural significance of the event, and the possibility of a similar accident occurring in the future.
Author: Federation of American Scientists
Subjects: disasters, space exploration
DeweyClass: 629.4
Resource type: documents, index
Disaster and Emergency Management Internet Resources: Index of international links and mailing lists about disaster and emergency planning and operations.
Author: Radio Amateurs' Emergency Network
Subjects: disasters
DeweyClass: 363.34
Resource type: index
Disaster Online: Resource offering details of disaster movies, including summary information about films such as Avalanche, Bees, Dante's Peak, Tidal Wave, Airport, Juggernaut and The Poseidon Adventure. Also provides details of actors and producers familiar to the disaster genre, a set of annotated links to related sites, information about the structure of disaster films, and suggestions as to why people like them.
Author: Disaster Online
Subjects: disasters, film studies
DeweyClass: 791.4
Resource type: documents, images
Emergency Preparedness Information Exchange: EPIX is concerned with the prevention of, preparation for, and recovery from natural and socio-technological disasters. Offers articles, research and training guides for topics including emergency communications, foreign animal diseases and volcanoes. Also includes links to related organisations and events worldwide, situation reports and natural hazard warnings.
Author: Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology
Subjects: disasters
DeweyClass: 363.34
Resource type: documents, news
Environment Agency Flood Warning Information: Offers guidance on preparing for flood conditions in order to minimise loss and ensure safety. Features a postcode based system allowing users in England and Wales to view flood plain maps of their local area.
Author: Environment Agency
Subjects: disasters
DeweyClass: 363.7
Resource type: documents
Extreme Weather Sourcebook 2001: Provides data on economic damage caused by hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes in the USA and its territories. Hurricane data covers 1900-1999, with data on floods, tornadoes, and lightning from the 1950s onwards.
Author: Environmental and Societal Impacts Group
Subjects: disasters, weather
DeweyClass: 363.3
Resource type: reference data
Floods in Europe: Damages to Libraries and Archives: Provides news on the damage to libraries and archives in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, and Slovakia, arising from flooding in the Autumn of 2002, and describes actions taken for disaster recovery.
Author: UNESCO
Subjects: archives, disasters, european libraries
DeweyClass: 027.0
Resource type: documents
Geologic Hazards: Information about research into the causes of geological phenomena, focusing on geomagnetism, landslides, and earthquakes. Offers interactive maps, images, and data.
Author: US Geological Survey
Subjects: disasters, earthquake hazard analysis, geology research
DeweyClass: 551
Resource type: documents
Great Irish Famine: Outlines the plight of the Irish during the 'Great Hunger' of 1845 to 1850, discussing the penal laws, racism, and mass evictions that led to the tragedy, and detailing mortality rates and emigration statistics and conditions.
Author: Irish Famine Curriculum Committee
Subjects: disasters, irish history
DeweyClass: 941.5
Resource type: article
History Today: Articles on politics, religion, science, sport, cinema and the arts, wars, discoveries, adventures and disasters.
Author: History Today
Subjects: disasters, sport, world history
DeweyClass: 900
Resource type: magazine
Living Almanac of Disasters: Summary of natural disasters including fires, earthquakes and transportation disasters, arranged by date.
Author: Laporte, Cate
Subjects: disasters
DeweyClass: 363.34
Resource type: reference document
Natural Disaster Reference Database: A bibliographic database on research, programs, and results which relate to the use of satellite remote sensing for disaster mitigation. A compilation of abstracted articles published since 1981 in relevant areas including: fires, eruptions, earthquakes, landslides, flooding, hurricanes, tsunami, avalanches
Author: NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center
Subjects: disasters, earthquake hazard analysis, hurricanes, remote sensing, satellites, tsunami
DeweyClass: 363.34
Resource type: article abstracts, bibliography
ReliefWeb: Aims to strengthen the response capacity of the humanitarian relief community through the timely dissemination of reliable information on prevention, preparedness and disaster response. Includes information on emergencies, and 'The Bulletin', a listing of new developments and major announcements.
Author: United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs
Subjects: disasters, humanitarian relief
DeweyClass: 368
Resource type: documents
Report of the Ladbroke Grove Rail Inquiry: Full text final report of the official inquiry conducted by Lord Cullen into the Ladbroke Grove rail crash in October 1999, presented as a PDF file.
Author: Cullen, Lord
Subjects: disasters, rail travel
DeweyClass: 385
Resource type: document
Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island: Presents the full-text of the US Government report into the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
Author: The Presidents Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island
Subjects: disasters, nuclear energy
DeweyClass: 353.3
Resource type: document
Titanic: Encyclopedia Titanica: Extensive information about the R.M.S. Titanic. Includes passenger and crew lists with passenger lists divided alphabetically and crew lists divided into individual occupations; schematic deck plans of the ship; lifeboat details containing listings of passengers and crew that were saved and their biographies, animations and a detailed chronology. An index to related organisations, discussion groups, bibliographies, newspaper accounts, personal home pages and exhibitions is also included.
Author: Hind, Philip
Subjects: british history from 1800, disasters
DeweyClass: 910.91634
Resource type: bibliography, biography, images, reference documents
Views of the Famine: Collection of views of the Irish tragedy from the Illustrated London News, the Cork Examiner, the Pictorial Times, Punch and the narrative Oxford to Skibbereen.
Author: Taylor, Steve
Subjects: disasters, irish history
DeweyClass: 941.5
Resource type: documents
World Disasters Report 2000: Annual report which analyses the humanitarian crises of the past, present and future and provides comprehensive analysis of the world's humanitarian crises, for disaster professionals and donors, politicians and planners, scientists and academics, journalists and community aid workers.
Author: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Subjects: disasters, humanitarian relief
DeweyClass: 363.348
Resource type: documents