Links

OTHER RESEARCH

AND

POLICY

CENTERS

• CRS Environmental Scan Matrix of Risk and Security Organizations in HTML or EXCEL (Last update: January 9, 2007)

• Terrorism: A Guide to Selected Resources, Center for the Study of Global Change

• List of publications by topic from the website of Counter-Terrorism Training and Resources for Law Enforcement

• After September 11 Archive: In the days following September 11, the SSRC asked social scientists from around the world to contribute essays to a website called "After September 11"

• Disasters by Design: A Reassessment of Natural Hazards in the United States, Dennis Mileti,  National Academy Press, 1999

• Chemical and Biological Terrorism: Research and Development to Improve Civilian Medical Response, Committee on R&D Needs for Improving Civilian Medical Response to Chemical and Biological Terrorism Incidents, Institute of Medicine, 1999

• Disaster Response: Preparation and Coordination, Eric Auf der Heide, Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, 1989

• The Long Road to Recovery: Community Responses to Industrial Disaster, Edited by James K. Mitchell, United Nations University Press, 1996

• Reducing Disaster Losses Through Better Information, Board on Natural Disasters, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council, National Academy Press, 1999

• The Disaster Research Center has established this web site featuring results from its spring 2004 conference "Disaster Research in the Social Sciences: Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Future Trajectories"

• Report on the Status of 9/11 Commission Recommendations: the 9/11 Public Discourse Project released the first of several reports that will assess the status of the 41 recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission
• Grand Challenges for Disaster Reduction, National Science and Technology Council, June 2005

TRADE JOURNALS,

MAGAZINES,

AND

NEWSLETTERS

• Disaster Recovery Journal 

• Contingency Planning & Management

• Homeland Protection Professional

• Homeland Security Newsletter

• Transportation Communications Newsletter

• Homeland Security Weekly

• Government Executive

• Global Security Newswire (from The Nuclear Threat Initiative)

• CERTIP Listserv Information

ACADEMIC

JOURNALS

• Journal of Homeland Security

• International Journal of Emergency Management

• Journal of Emergency Management

• Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management

• International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters

• Risk Analysis

• Decision Analysis Journal

• Risk, Decision and Policy

• Disaster, Hazard, Risk and Emergency Management

• Center for Peace and Security Studies (Georgetown University)

• Center for Emergency Response Technology, Instruction, and Policy (CERTIP)

• Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland

• Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center  

• Hazards Research Lab (University of South Carolina) 

• Disaster Research Center (University of Delaware)

• Hazards and Disaster Information Resources (Natural Hazards Center - University of Colorado)

• Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management

• Links to commonly used research portals

• Disaster Central

• Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Energy (Belfer Ctr)

• National Homeland Security Knowledgebase

• Benfield Hazard Research Center (Rapid Environmental Impact Assessment in Disaster Response)

• Society for Risk Analysis

• National Academic Consortium for Homeland Security

• National Environmental Health Association's Terrorism and All-Hazards Preparedness Program

• Society for Judgment and Decision Making

• Decision Analysis Society

• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

• Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS): Homeland Security & Public Safety Forum

• Center for Risk and Security Online Library, Clark University

• Delaware Disaster Library

• ANSER Institute of Homeland Security Online Library

• National Homeland Security Knowledgebase

• MIPT Library

• America's War Against Terrorism (University of Michigan)

• Homeland Security Institute Library

• The Quakeline Database (SUNY Buffalo)

• European Commission Security Research

• Provention Consortium 

• International Atomic Energy Agency

• The Atlantic Council of the United States

• International Research Committee on Disasters

• World Institute for Disaster Risk Management

• European Union Institute for Security Studies

• Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

• Risk World (covering news and views)

• Links to Disaster, Hazard, Risk, and Emergency Management Research Centers

• The Duke Center for Environmental Solutions is a university-wide initiative to develop creative solutions to complex risk and environmental challenges through multidisciplinary analysis

• The Laboratory for Safety Analysis at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich provides advanced techniques for modeling and optimization of complex technical systems, in general, and energy systems in particular, with respect to performance, reliability, and risks

• The ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) based at the London School of Economics and Political Science is a multidisciplinary research centre with participation from social scientists working in accounting, economics, geography and environment, law, operational research, political science and sociology

• The UVA's Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems develops technology to assist in the management of risk for a variety of engineering systems. Their areas of expertise include: (1) environmental impacts, (2) water resources and technology management, (3) electronic, safety-critical systems, (4) computer-based systems, including hardware and software performance and reliability, and (5) reliability modeling of multiple failure modes in complex systems

• The Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP) is a university-based national organization created specifically to develop a credible strategy for providing the information needed for risk-based clean-up of complex contaminated environments, especially those for which the Department of Energy is responsible

• The Engineering and Public Policy program at Carnegie Mellon University offers research which includes: problems in environmental and energy systems; telecommunications and information policy; analysis and communication of risks to health, safety and the environment; technology policy and innovation (including issues in manufacturing, engineering education and manpower); issues in international peace and security; and the development of computer tools for policy analysis and decision support

• The Harvard Center for Risk Analysis was launched in 1989 with the mission to promote reasoned public responses to health, safety, and environmental hazards

• The Institute for Environmental Studies (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) focuses on the link between the sciences, philosophy (broadly conceived) and environmental decisions

• The University of Warwick's Risk Initiative provides a UK perspective on the identification, assessment, management and control of risks in a variety of contexts

• The Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health provides practitioners, scientists, and decision makers with the tools necessary to ensure that health policies lead to improved public health

• Risk Management at Wharton

• Decision risk analysis at Duke

• Public Entity Risk Institute (PERI)

GOVERNMENTAL

RESOURCES

• The Homeland Security Institute (HSI) is a Studies and Analysis (S&A) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC). The primary mission of the HSI is to assist the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Operating Elements in addressing important homeland security issues, particularly those requiring scientific, technical, and analytical expertise

• U.S. House Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security, National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations

• U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHA)

• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

• FEMA's Emergency Management Institute (EMI)

• U.S. EPA's Homeland Security Research Center

• U.S. Fire Administration (USFA)

• HAZMAT

• CIAO

• SANDIA Risk Assessment and Risk Management

• Nuclear Threat Initiative

• National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) is an organization of state-level emergency management officials. The NEMA online library provides full-text access to documents and presentations from NEMA committees. This site also includes information on NEMA membership, conferences, job listings and a directory of emergency management contacts by state

• National Governor's Association for Best Practices (NGAC) provides support to Governors in responding to the challenges of homeland security and other emergency management issues

• Ready.gov website, an integral part of Homeland Security¹s Ready campaign, is designed to educate and empower Americans to prepare for and respond to emergencies including natural disasters and potential terrorist attacks

• Citizen Corps, a Homeland Security's grassroots effort, localizes Ready's preparedness messages and provides local opportunities for citizens to get emergency response training, participate in community exercises and volunteer to support local first responders.