Emergency Management Internet Sites

Emergency Management Internet Sites

Comprehensive Bibliography of Emergency Management - 617 pages. http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu/docs/Wayne%20Bibliography.pdf

The following WWW sites are, as well as a few others, are available as links from the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) web site.

http://www.state.fl.us/comaff/DEM/BPR/EMTOOLS/emsites.htm

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

http://www.fema.gov/

This web site provides an impressive array of information and services. It is updated 24 hours per day, 7 days per week to provide the latest information relevant to national emergencies. FEMA web pages are organized into several major sections, each with its own homepage including:

· Tropical Storm Watch Center

· Master Index

· Reference Library/Electronic Reading Room

· Building Safe

· Preparing America for Dealing with Emergencies

· About the Federal Emergency Management Agency

· The Kid’s Section

· Help After a Disaster

· Rapid Response Information System.

Emergency Information Infrastructure Partnership Web Site.

http://www.emforum.org/

The partnership, which is a voluntary association of organizations and individuals, seeking to enhance their effectiveness in coping with disasters and emergency situations by exploring the opportunity for sharing information and ideas made possible by electronic technology.

National Emergency Management Association (NEMA).

http://nemaweb.media3.net/index.cfm

This site supports several important goals of NEMA, which is the professional association of state and pacific Caribbean insular state emergency management directors committed to providing national leadership and expertise in comprehensive emergency management.

Homepages within the site include:

· Document Library

· Document Uploading Center

· Open Discussion Forum

· NEMA Search Page.

Florida Division of Emergency Management.

http://www.state.f l .u s /coma f f/DEM/

This is certainly one of the best State emergency management web sites in the U.S. The site provides up-to-the-minute information on emergencies affecting the State of Florida

and also publishes numerous documents using Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF). Some documents are also available in WordPerfect. Categories of documents include:

· Plans and Operational Procedures

· Reports

· Agreements and Compliance Materials

· Preparedness

· Response

· Recovery and Mitigation

· Internet Resources.

The Natural Hazards Center.

The site is http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/

The Natural Hazards Center, located at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, is a national and international clearinghouse for information on natural hazards and human adjustments to hazards and disasters. The Natural Hazards Center carries out its mission in four principal areas: information dissemination, an annual workshop, research, and library services. The center’s prime goal is to increase communication among hazard/disaster researchers and those individuals, agencies, and organizations that are actively working to reduce disaster damage and suffering. The Natural Hazards Center has a variety of resources available from the Internet.

The Leadership Coalition for Global Business Protection.

Its site is http://www.lcgbp.org/main.html

The Coalition is a group that includes representatives from major corporations, national and local governments, and the U.N. The coalition’s aim is to encourage business and industry to work with governmental emergency management agencies in disaster preparedness, response, recovery, training, and mitigation. The group includes such diverse participants as the IBM Corporation, New York City Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management, and the United Nations.

The Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware (DRC).

Its site is http://www.udel.edu/DRC/

The Center, the first of its kind in the world and the oldest in the United States, was established at the Ohio State University in 1963 and moved to the University of Delaware in 1985. DRC engages in a variety of social science research projects on group and organizational preparations for, responses to, and recovery from community-wide emergencies, particularly natural and technological disasters.

The University of Wisconsin-Disaster Management Center (UW-DMC).

http://epdwww.engr.wisc.edu/dmc/welcome.html

The Center is sponsored by the Department of Engineering Professional Development in the College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison. It offers educational programs on the management of situations created by disasters and emergencies in an international context. Workshops and seminars are offered in Madison and other cities throughout the world.

Argonne National Laboratory - Decision and Information Sciences - Emergency Management.

http://www.dis.anl.gov/disweb/ep

Develops and evaluates emergency management plans and programs; trains planners, responders, and other emergency professionals; develops information management systems and decision support tools for emergency management professionals.

EPIX Home Page - The Emergency Preparedness Information Exchange (EPIX).

http://hoshi.cic.sfu.ca/epix/index.html

EPIX is operated by the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology, (CPROST) Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. The purpose of EPIX is to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information among Canadian and international public and private sector organizations about the prevention of, preparation for, recovery from and/or mitigation of risk associated with natural and socio-technological disasters. Continuing development of EPIX is made possible through the generous contributions of many government and non-government organizations.

NDRD Natural Disaster Reference Database (NASA).

http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/ndrd/

Goals and objectives are to assemble and make available a bibliographic database on research, programs, and results which relate to the use of satellite remote sensing for disaster mitigation. Located on this site is the Disaster Finder, which is described by the owners, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, as “a complete index to the best disaster Web sites on the Internet.” It covers over 400 disaster information sites, and, using a keyword/concept search facility or category/type menu buttons, users can quickly identify specific sites providing the information they need. The sites found by using the search engine are prioritized according to their probable suitability, and the Disaster Finder even provides short previews of the selections so that individuals can see what kind of information is available.

StoneFly Emergency Communications Center.

http://stonefly.arc.nasa.gov/

“StoneFly” is a project of the NASA Ames Research Center’s (ARC) Emergency Communications Center (ECC). The project’s goal is to ultimately become the world’s largest database of emergency preparedness information. The second goal of StoneFly is to provide a real time communication coordination point for agencies preparing for or actually doing disaster relief work.

VITA Volunteers in Technical Assistance Disaster Information Center.

http://www.vita.org/emergres.htm

Since 1988, under a grant from the U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and the IBM Corporation, Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA) has maintained the Disaster Information Center, which provides the U.S. public and private organizations with information related to international disaster relief activities. Since its inception, thousands of individuals, as well as embassies, corporations, and relief agencies have come to rely on the Center as a source of up-to-date disaster-related information.

The National Incident Management System (NIMS) Integration Center

http://www.fema.gov/nims/nims.shtm

The NIMS Integration Center was established by the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide “strategic direction for and oversight of the National Incident Management System… supporting both routine maintenance and the continuous refinement of the system and its components over the long term.”

The NIMS is a comprehensive incident response system, developed by Homeland Security at the request of the President. The NIMS Integration Center will oversee all aspects of the NIMS, including the development of NIMS-related standards and guidelines and the provision of guidance and support to incident management and responder organizations as they implement the system. The Center also will validate compliance with the NIMS and National Response Plan responsibilities, standards and requirements.

The NIMS Integration Center is a multi-jurisdictional, multidisciplinary entity made up of federal stakeholders and state, local and tribal incident management and first responder organizations. It is situated in the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

The organization of the Center includes the following branches:

Standards and Resources
Training and Exercises
System Evaluation and Compliance
Technology, Research and Development
Publications Management

NEMA is the professional association of and for state* emergency management directors.
http://www.nemaweb.org/

NEMA’s mission is to:
Provide national leadership and expertise in comprehensive emergency management.

Serve as a vital emergency management information and assistance resource.

Advance continuous improvement in emergency management through strategic partnerships, innovative programs, and collaborative policy positions.

ReliefWeb.

http://www.vita.org/emergres.htm

Relief Web is a project of the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs (DHA). The purpose of this effort is to strengthen the response capacity of the humanitarian relief community through the timely dissemination of reliable information on prevention, preparedness and disaster response.

Pan American Health Organization Disaster/Humanitarian Assistance

http://www.pa h o.org/english/ped/pedhome.htm

This site includes recent disaster situation reports, lists of disaster coordinators in Latin America and the Caribbean, information about providing effective relief donations, and a guide to the World Health Organization Emergency Health Kit. This site also provides back issues of the newsletter Disasters: Preparedness and Mitigation in the Americas; other publications; information about SUMA, PAHO’s Relief Supply Management System; and guidance for those wishing to use the Internet to further disaster management in Latin America and the Caribbean. All information is provided in English and Spanish.

Emergency Resource Directory

http://www.clarknet.com/e rd

This site was created to provide easy access to emergency Web sites around the world.

Disaster Relief.

http://www.disasterrelief.org/About/

This website is a cooperative effort between the American Red Cross, CNN Interactive and IBM. The mission is to help disaster victims and the disaster relief community worldwide by facilitating the exchange of information on the Internet.

Information Categories from FEMA’s Virtual Library

http://www.fema.gov/librar y

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