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No. 5 Special Briefing Note: September 4, Canterbury NZ Earthquake No. 5 pdf
No. 4 Special Briefing Note: September 4, Canterbury NZ Earthquake No. 4 pdf
No. 3 Special Briefing Note: September 4, Canterbury NZ Earthquake No. 3 pdf
No. 2 Special Briefing Note: September 4, Canterbury NZ Earthquake No. 2 pdf
No. 1 Special Briefing Note: September 4, Canterbury NZ Earthquake No. 1 pdf
196 Not in my term of office pdf
195 Eyjafjallajökull Eruption Crisis pdf
194 More heat than light
193 Predictability and Randomness of People's Whereabouts
192 Charles Darwin and the Mw 8.8 Maule, Chile Earthquake
191 Global Warming & Hurricanes
190
Overcoming the disaster myopia in Haiti
189 Who says Legalese is boring?
188 Wagging the "fat tail" of climate catastrophe: How much should we pay to avoid the tiny risk of total destruction pdf
187 What price flood protection?
186 Catastrophic Fire Warning, and "Firewatch" Early Warning Technology
185 September 29, 2009 Mw8.0 Samoa Earthquake - Preliminary Tsunami Wave Height: Modelling Results
184 Reflections on the Case of Tsunami Early Warning System in Indonesia
183 The Station Fire, Los Angeles: a Perspective on Public Safety and Health
182 Hardening Australia: Climate change and national disaster resilience
181 Can Reservoirs Trigger Very Large Earthquakes - the Case of the Wenchuan Event
180 Potential for Index Insurance to Help Manage Climate Risks and Reduce Poverty
179 Climatic Catastrophe would follow Regional Nuclear Conflict
178 Briefing: Vast damage from a moderate earthquake: the magnitude 5.7 Yunnan, China earthquake of 9 July 2009
177 Decoupling Storm Surge from the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
176 100 years of Australian bushfire property losses: Is the risk significant and is it increasing?
175 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission Submission
174 Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe
173 Hysteria at Fever Pitch
172 Did technician Giampaolo Giuliani predict the D'Aquila, Italy earthquake of
6 April 2009?
171 Disaster Goes Global
170 Raw Deals
169 Is the allocation of resources towards mitigation and response to fire in Australia optimal?
168 War and Peace - and Stock Markets
167 IAVCEI 2008: Volcanology, politics and puffins
166 Fire response: Is there a role for the private sector?
165 Flood game shows UK cities under water
164 Nonsense, Incoherence, and Inconsistency at the Hurricane Science and Media Interface
163 Climate means versus extremes: future projections over Australia
162 How to Get the Biggest Bang for 10 Billion Bucks
161 Centenary of the Tunguska Asteroid
160 Let them heat coke (Buttonwood)
159 The European Flood Risk Management Directive
158 August 17 1999, Magnitude 7.4 Izmit Earthquake, Turkey
157 Gauging a Collider's Odds of Creating a Black Hole
156 12 May 2008 Earthquake in Sichuan Province, China
155 Australia's climate in 2007
154 Modelling future trends in severe hailstorms in Sydney
153 A Faustian Bargain? Response from Dr George Walker
152 A Faustian Bargain?
151 Understanding El Nino - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and its predictability
150 Prisoner of experience? - A personal talke from the 9/12/07 Sydney hailstorm
149 20 December 2007 Magnitude 6.6 Gisborne Earthquake
148 Sustainable Energy Technologies
147 Confronting Disaster Losses
146 A NSW State Emergency Service Perspective on Storm Damage in 2006/07
145 Sometimes the All Blacks lose!
144 Volcanological Support for Evacuation Decision-Making
143 Global Climate Change: A Challenge to Policy
142 The Mw 8.0 Peru Earthquake of 15 August, 2007
141 Climate Change: The Uncertainties, the Certainties, and What They Imply About Action
140 Insurance and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption
139 "The Great Global Warming Swindle": a critique
138 East coast lows and maritime mishaps
137 Insurance and bushfire vulnerability in rural Australia
136 Infrastructure Failure Interdependencies
135 Sources of disease outbreak information
134 Flooding in Fiji: the latest
133 Statistics of Deadly Quarrels
132 The Changing Face of Tornadoes
131 El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO): The current state of play
130 Book Review: The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
129 The heat is on - now there is little doubt!
128 The Human Hailstone
127 The Tsunami Evaluation Coalition
126
Moros y Christianos. Home Grown Terrorism
125
Some Economics of Global Warming
124
Caravan Parks and Flooding - a Complex Risk
123
The heat is on
122
Public-domain Global Datasets for Hazard Risk Studies
121
Pandemic & Business Continuity Planning
120
The Inter-decadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) and El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
119
The role of "shelter in place" in wildfire management in the USA
118
2005/2006 New South Wales Storm Season: SES Review
117
Preliminary report on the July 17, 2006 Mw 7.7 West Java Earthquake
116
A 1,000-year record of typhoon landfalls in southern China
115
Climate, Buildings and Energy
114
A Tempestuous Birth for Hurricane Climatology
113
Briefing on the magnitude 6.3 Bantul, Java Earthquake of May 26, 2006
112
Collapsing lava domes: a dangerous uncertainty
111
Insurers Retreat From Coasts
110
Extreme Drought
109
Severe Thunderstorms and El Nino
108
Recreation and visualisation of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
107
Cities on Volcanoes 4, Equador
106
Historical Sites and Earthquakes
105
Nobody told Tropical Storm Zeta
104
Book Review: Hemingway's Hurricane - The Great Florida Keys Storm of 1935
103
Extreme Natural Hazards
102
Book Review: Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
101
The Cost of Fire in Australia
100
And now, the war forecast
99
A new model for forecasting tropical cyclone numbers in the Australian-Southwest Pacific Ocean
98
Volcanic lahars: death, destruction and huge losses for the insurance industry?
97
Drowning New Orleans
96
What if...?
95
Super-Eruptions Pose Global Threat "5-10 Times More Likely Than Asteroid Impact"
94
Increasing Natural Disaster Losses: Societal Vulnerability or Climate Change?
93
The Geocoded National Address File
92
Hail Damage to Aircraft
91
The 2004/2005 Storm Season: A New South Wales State Emergency Service Perspective
90
Hail Damage Digest
89
(Not) Fooled by Randomness
88
Doubts about the advent of spring
87
Mt St Helens 25 Years
86
Global Climate Change: Fact or Urban Myth? Risk Frontiers goes undercover to reveal the truth.
85
Was the Mw 8.7 Sumatra earthquake of March 28 predicted?
84
Why the Easter Monday Sumatra earthquake did not generate a damaging tsunami
83
Fundamental Changes in Climate Modelling and Climate Change Projection
82
Do "Rogue" Waves Really Exist?
81
Tsunami protection on Okushiri Island, Japan
80
Killer Hail
79
Florida's Luck Runs Out
78
Book Review: Rockoning with Risk by Gerd Gigerenzer
77
Drought, Dust and Deluge: A Century of Climatic Extremes
76
Success Stories in Radar Hydrology
75
Storm Chasing on Wall Street
74
Quantitative Risk Assessment and Engineers
73
Natural Hazards Management in the Land of the Long White Cloud
72
Earthquake or Storm Damage?
71
Athenian maths
70
Relationships between tropical cyclones and sea surface temperature in the Australian region
69
Statistics in Volcanology
68
Climate change made easy
67
Pros and Cons of the American Model for Flood Insurance
66
And from our Carribbean correspondent - Building vulnerability to Pyroclastic Flows
65
THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW - some comments on the movie
64
South Atlantic Hurricane puts Brazil in a Spin
63
Predictability of El Nino over the last 148 years
62
Sustainability? A Minimal Model of Biosphere-Human Interactions
61
Flood maps could lower insurance premiums
60
Getting the message across and moving ahead, Rotorua, March 2004
59
Preliminary Report on the New Zealand Flooding
58
The Financial Management of Catastrophic Flood Risks
57
Investigating the causes of increasing weather-related losses
56
Volleyball sized hail, and a new record for the largest hailstone in the USA
55
Global Climate Change: Future Extremes
54
State Still Unprepared for Great Earthquake
53
Remote sensing: A tool for disaster Reduction
52
Lessons from the Prestige
51
Storms of 25th and 26th October, 2003
50
Hurricane damage in Bermuda
49
The Sinking of the Prestige
48
2003 Australian Disaster Conference, Canberra, September 2003
47
Building for the New Madrid Earthquake: The debate continues...
46
Cities on Volcanoes 3 Hilo, Hawaii, July 2003
45
Securitisation of Insurance Risk: Investors Perspective
44
Securitisation of Insurance Risk: Introduction to Catastrophe Bonds
43
Living with risk: A global review of disaster reduction initiatives
42
UNEP Finance Initiatives - local and international
41
Pacific Risk Management
40
Debate: Building Codes in the Eastern United States
39
Is it time to re-assess tsunami hazard in the Mediterranean Sea?
38
27th August - Krakatau's 120th birthday
37
Vesuvius eruption A.D.79
36
Insurance industry involvement in sustainable energy technologies may also yield loss reduction benefits
35
Flood risk in the UK: an integration of social and technical perspectives
34
New estimates of earthquake risk in San Francisco Bay area
33
Tropical Cyclone at the Equator
32
Floodplain Management Authorities of NSW 43rd Annual Conference
31
Towards delivering near real-time flood inundation maps via the Internet
30
ANU Fire Forum: not a post-mortem of the January 2003 Canberra Bushfire
29
Remotely senses images for the January 2003 Canberra Bushire
28
Global warming and the risk of natural disasters
27
Flood Insurance: The Australia - Scotland nexus
26
Canberra 2003 - houses destroyed versus distance from the fire front
25
Tropical Cyclone Futures - Cairns
24
Flood Warning in Australia: A National Workshop
23
Disaster Loss Assessment Guidelines
22
Using Australian Census Data
21
Once Burned, Twice Shy?" Lessons Learned from the 1997-98 El Nino
20
Benefits of Flood Mitigation in Australia
19
Estimation of the hail damage to buildings using radar
18
David Etkin, Risk transference and related trends; driving forces towards more mega-disasters, Environmental Hazards, 1, 69-75 (1999)
17
Reflections on risk: report on a seminar by JK Mitchell
16
Using geo-spatial and telecommunication technologies for disaster management support
15
Using LIDAR data for flood mapping
14
Sydney and the bushfires - a story in many parts
13
TSUNAMI The Underrated Hazard
12
Climate change data
11
The end of the world is nigh! or is it?
10
No need to be 'rooned' - Shortening the Odds with Weather Derivatives
9
Tsunamis from Hawaii on the NSW coast
8
Interpreting Maps - A review of the use of maps in decision-making
7
Using weather radar to estimate vehicle hail damage
6
Policital action by the Canadian industry on climate change
5
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol: a corporate accounting and reporting standard
4
Hail more severe on weekends?
3
Possible causes of flood disasters on the Yangtze River
2
In pursuit of high resolution imagery for bushfire risk assessment
1
Recent thoughts on earthquakes