| ☆ United Kingdom |
| Benfield Hazard
Research Centre，UCL(University College
London) |
Benfield Hazard Research Centre provides
various services and products to industry,
utilities, and government and international
agencies including Consultancy, Vetting,
Education & Training and Publications.
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| Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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CEH is the UK's Centre of Excellence for research in the land and freshwater environmental sciences. CEH's staff have specialist skills in a wide range of environmental disciplines, ranging from the smallest scale (the gene) to the largest scale (whole Earth systems).
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| Flood Hazard
Research Centre，Middlesex University |
FHRC focuses on analysis and appraisal of
environmental policies. A large part of the
research refers to the management of the
water environment. Download Site
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| Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
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| The Tyndall Centre brings together scientists, economists, engineers and social scientists, who together are working to develop sustainable responses to climate change through trans-disciplinary research and dialogue on both a national and international level - not just within the research community, but also with business leaders, policy advisors, the media and the public in general. |
| ☆ United States |
| Center for Disaster
Management and Humanitarian Assistance，University
of South Florida |
The CDMHA undertakes education, training
and research in the areas of disaster management
and humanitarian assistance with a focus
on Latin America and the Caribbean.
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| Center for Disaster Research & Education , Millersville University |
The CDRE has supported the Research Committee on Disasters of the International
Sociological Association. The Center focuse clearly on "Research and
Education".
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| Center for
Hazards and Risk Research，Columbia
University |
This organization aims to advance the predictive
capability for hazard and risk and
integrate
core science with techniques for hazard
assessment
and risk management.
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| Center for
Public Health and Disasters, University
of
California - Los Angeles |
The Center for Public Health and Disasters
promotes interdisciplinary efforts to reduce
the health impacts of domestic and international,
natural and human-generated disasters.
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| Center for Risk
Management of Engineering Systems, University of Virginia |
The Center for Risk Management of Engineering
Systems develops theory, methodology and
technology to assist in the management of
risk for a variety of engineering systems.
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| CHICO, Center
for Hazards Research, California State
University |
The Center for Hazards Research coordinates hazards-related research and educational
activities by faculty and students
at California StateUniversity, Chico, and research associates at other institutions
throughout California. CHR work to date has largely focused on earthquake, flood, drought, and
wildfire hazards, mainly in the State
of
California.
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| College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Washington
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CAUP dedicates its diverse resources to the tangible improvement of built and natural environments, which they measure in the experience and possibility of fuller, healthier, more creative and meaningful lives. .
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| Coping With Floods Information For
Dealing With Floods，North Dakota State
University
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This website provides practical information
for home owners about how to prepare for
and how to cope after a flood.
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| Dartmouth
Flood Observatory, Dartmouth Colledge |
The Observatory detects, maps, and measures
major flood events world-wide using satellite
remote sensing.
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| Disaster Management
Center (DMC)，University of Wisconsin |
The center's goal is to help improve the
emergency management performance of non-governmental
organizations, local and national governments,
and international organizations, through
a professional development program in disaster
management.
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| Disaster Mental
Health Institute, University of South
Dakota |
The Disaster Mental Health Institute (DMHI)aims
to encourage promotion, development, and
application of both practice and research
in disaster mental health.
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| DRC(Disaster
Research Center)，University of Delaware |
The Center conducts field and survey research
on group, organizational and community
preparation
for, response to, and recovery from
natural
and technological disasters and other
community-wide
crises. University of Delaware Library Institutional
Repository
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| Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC) University of California, Berkeley |
The Earthquake Engineering Research Center
(EERC) conducts research and public service
programs aimed at protecting the public and
its property from the destructive effects
of earthquakes.
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| Emergency Administration
and Planning, University of North Texas |
Established in 1983, the Emergency Administration
and Planning Program (EADP) is a degree program
in emergency management
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| Hazards Reduction
& Recovery Center，Texas A&M
University |
The center engages in research on hazard
mitigation, disaster preparedness, response,
and recovery. Using an interdisciplinary
staff resource they aim to providing access
to hazards information for homeowners, professionals,
business investors, and the academic community.
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| Hazards Research
Laboratory (HRL)，University of South
Carolina |
The Hazards Research Lab (HRL) is a research
and graduate training lab focused on
the
use of geographic information science
(GISc)
in environmental hazards analysis and
management.
It also facilitates local, state, and
federal
efforts to improve emergency preparedness,
planning, and response through its
outreach
activities.
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| Institute for
Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management, George
Washington University |
The goal of The Institute for Crisis, Disaster,
and Risk Management is to improve the disaster,
emergency, and crisis management plans, actions
and decisions of government, corporate, and
not-for-profit organizations by transforming
theory into practice.
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| Institute for Hazards Mitigation Planning and Research, University of Washington |
The Institute is dedicated to exploring ways to integrate hazards mitigation principles into a wide range of crisis, disaster, and risk management opportunities. Its mission is to build a resource center that will enhance risk reduction activities through research and analysis of hazards, policies related to mitigation and through outreach to the community. The Institute provides expertise in disaster preparedness, response and recovery with a special emphasis on mitigation and planning in the promotion of community sustainability.
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| Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology, IZIIS, University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius" |
The Institute carries out a large number of applied and development research
projects and provides consulting services for design and analysis of sophisticated civil engineering structures. In addition to direct cooperation
of the Institute with universities, institutions
and the economic sector of the Republic, within the framework of the above mentioned
activities, a permanent and intensive international cooperation has been
developed and maintained. Such international cooperation with universities,
scientific institutions and centres worldwide is a prerequisite for more
efficient and more complex scientific research within the Institute.
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| International
Hurricane Center (IHC), Florida International
University |
The International Hurricane Research Center is a Type I research center within the State of Florida University System. The IHRC is an interdisciplinary research center focused on the mitigation of hurricane damage to people, the economy, and the built and natural environments.
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| LSU Hurricane
Center, Louisiana State University |
The aim of this center is to promote research
into hurricanes and to help the state solve
hurricane related problems.
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| Mid-America Earthquake
Center，University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
The mission of the MAE Center is to develop through research, and to disseminate
through education and outreach, new integrated
approaches necessary to minimize the consequences
of future earthquakes across hazard-prone
regions, including but not limited to, the
eastern and central United States.
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| Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER), State University of New York at Buffalo |
MCEER is a national center of excellence dedicated to the discovery and development of new knowledge, tools and technologies that equip communities to become more disaster resilient in the face of earthquakes and other extreme events. MCEER accomplishes this through a system of multidisciplinary, multi-hazard research, education and outreach initiatives.
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| National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) |
NCAR provides the university science and teaching community with the tools, facilities, and support required to perform innovative research. Through NCAR, scientists gain access to high-performance computational and observational facilities, such as supercomputers, aircraft and radar - resources researchers need to improve human understanding of atmospheric and Earth system processes. NCAR and university scientists work together on research topics in atmospheric chemistry, climate, cloud physics and storms, weather hazards to aviation, and interactions between the sun and Earth. In all of these areas, scientists are looking closely at the role of humans in both creating climate change and responding to severe weather occurrences.
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| National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA), State University of New York at Buffalo |
The Buffalo site of the NCGIA (NCGIA-Buffalo) is an organized research unit of the University at Buffalo, facilitating an active and interdisciplinary research community. NCGIA - Buffalo manages the Buffalo portion of the national center, supports a range of other research grants and programs, and coordinates GI Science activities on campus. NCGIA-Buffalo, currently has 24 official members, distributed among 9 departments in 4 schools.
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| Natural Hazards
Center , University of Colorado |
The Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder aims to advance and communicate knowledge
on hazards mitigation, disaster preparedness
and response.
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| Program for
the Study of Developed Shorelines, Western Carolina University |
This website provides information on beach
nourishment, coastal hazards, beach
preservation,
beach stabilization, coastal erosion
information
etc.
The PSDS beach nourishment database
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| The Center for Earthquake
Research and Information，University
of Memphis |
This website provides information about courses,
teachers’ resources, research links etc
connected to earthquakes.
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| The James and Marilyn Lovell Center
for Environmental Geography and Hazards
Research，Texas
State University |
The activities of this center include convening
and sponsoring conferences on critical issues
in the fields of environmental geography
and hazards research and publishing plenary
papers from such conferences in international
journals.
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| Wharton Risk
Management and Decision Processes Center，University
of Pennsylvania |
| The Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center is a group of people and projects aiming
to further the practical understanding of
how to manage situations of risk involving
health, safety, and the environment in both
the private and public sectors of our society. |
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