Disaster & Emergency Management: Find Websites

Directory of Disaster-Related Organizations: includes federal, state, and local government agencies; information and referral centers; professional societies; voluntary associations; academic and research institutions and their programs; information systems; regulatory bodies; and research facilities.

Disaster Assistance.gov: site provides general disaster information and resources.

Disaster Central: site is devoted to providing timely, quality digital resources in the fields of emergency management, risk management, and homeland security.

Disaster Information Management Resource Center: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ site includes mobile apps, articles, websites, an A to Z index of all resources.

Disaster Research Center: The University of Delaware’s DRC site includes current studies and news, a research archive, extensive bibliographies of DRC publications.

FloridaDisaster.org: Florida Division of Emergency Management’s site includes information relating to hurricanes, floods, wildfires, terrorism, drought, computer virus threats, and more.

Heritage Emergency National Task Force: site provides and archive of disaster information, disaster planning and response resources, contact information for state cultural agencies and federal and state emergency management agencies, and more.

Post-Disaster Guidance: resources provided by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

Business Continuity Institute: includes a collection of Business Continuity Planning Guides, which are available full-text online

Continuity Central: One-stop resource of business continuity management news, jobs and information.

Continuity Systems Limited: provides a “Recovery Healthcheck” questionnaire online, full-text of a few articles by Ian Charters, disaster statistics, and “myths” about disasters.

Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII): includes full-text Professional Practices for Business Continuity Planners, a guide to and standards for developing and implementing business continuity plans.

DisasterRecovery.org: Disaster recovery plan template, business continuity planning template, case studies, and other resources

Disaster Resource Guide: information, vendors, organizations and many resources to help businesses prepare for (mitigate) or recover from any type of natural or other type of disaster

Emergency Management Guide for Business & Industry: FEMA’s guide provides step-by-step advice on how to create and maintain a comprehensive emergency management program.

Ready.gov: FEMA’s site assists businesses in developing a preparedness program by providing tools to create a plan that addresses the impact of many hazards.

Rothstein Associates (Recovery Resources): site includes a collection of full-text articles, the Disaster Recovery Forum, the Business Survival Newsletter, and related links.

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR): Features news and information sources on toxic substances and includes the HazDat database that provides information on the release of hazardous substances from Superfund sites and from emergency events, and Minimal Risk Levels (MRLs) for hazardous substances.

American Association of Poison Control Centers: includes news, directory of poison centers, information on patient management and more.

Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management (CHEMM): the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ site provides an extensive library of resources relating to incidents involving chemicals.

EM-DAT: the international disaster database contains essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 18,000 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to present.

National Toxicology Program: The Department of Health & Human Services’ program provides study reports, publications, and additional resources.

NOAA Office of Response and Restoration: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s site provides information on preparing for, evaluating, and responding to threats to coastal environments, including oil and chemical spills, releases from hazardous waste sites, and marine debris.

TOXNET: National Institute of Health’s databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO): This site provides the GAO’s examination of disaster assistance efforts domestically and overseas.

FEMA: official site of the Federal Emergency Management Agency includes information on declared disasters & emergencies, preparedness, recovery, and more.

list of online courses available through FEMA

Increasing disaster threats not only reflect the onset of events such as earthquakes or floods, but also the changing demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the population.

Information on terrorism and public health. Provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Maritime Safety and Security Program develops and transitions technical capabilities that enhance U.S. maritime border security by safeguarding lawful trade and travel, and helps to prevent illegal use of the maritime environment to transport illicit goods or people.

Learn more about common threats to operations, how modern officers are dealing with these threats and what the future for marine security could look like

As far as Maritime Security is concerned, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) provides support, assistance and guidance to Member Governments on matters relating to the implementation of the following instruments:

Learn more about maritime safety: definition, example, importance, difference from maritime security, and maritime standards. Discover ways to implement maritime safety training efficiently.

U.S. DOT Volpe Center developed a low-cost, unclassified, near real-time network that is used to track vessels as they traverse the world’s waterways.

The MSSC is a maritime-focused safety and security-training center located in Richmond, California. It was developed through a public/private partnership between the Chevron Richmond Refinery and California State University, Maritime Academy. Cal Maritime will operate the center.
The Center's focus is on uniform training using common standards of practice to fortify coordinated responses. We provide integrated safety and security planning, preparedness, response and mitigation training and strategies to guarantee an operational whole.

Arms Control Association: Includes issue briefs, fact sheets, reports, subject resources and more.

Center for Nonproliferation Studies: organization combats the spread of weapons of mass destruction by training the next generation of nonproliferation specialists and disseminating timely information and analysis.

Center for Strategic and International Studies: Nuclear Weapons Investigating a range of nuclear issues, including the security of existing weapons and materials, international nonproliferation regimes, and the human infrastructure needed to support capabilities

Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction: National Defense University’s site provides recent WMD publications.

Federation of American Scientists: site provides research, news, publications, and additional resources on the topics of terrorism, biosecurity, nuclear information, conventional weapons, weapons of mass destruction, and more

Nuclear Threat Initiative: Site provides facts about the threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, missile development programs and policies and terrorist activities.

RAND: Nuclear Weapons: provides selected Research, commentary and congressional Testimony

Weapons of Mass Destruction (MERLN): A top resource for finding WMD research. Emphasizes U.S. policy, but also includes resources analyzing the topic from governmental and non-governmental sources, including think tanks and scholarly journals. All documents are available full-text on the internet.

CEMR Network: provides comprehensive emergency management research

EPA Emergency Management: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s site provides information about emergency response efforts, regulations, tools, and additional research.

International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM): Site includes news, job listings, and commentary on current policy issues.

National Emergency Management Association: Check out the resources tab for document and video libraries, career opportunities, reports, and more.

site includes sections on Bioterrorism, Emergency Management, and Homeland Security. Within these sections are links to full-text publications, including “Governor’s Guide to Emergency Management”, “Domestic Preparedness Checklist”, and presentations from the NGA Bioterrorism Summit.

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH): site includes emergency preparedness and response resources.

National Response Center (NRC): the U.S. Coast Guard’s site includes the official governmental reporting mechanism for oil and chemical spills. Site also provides incident reports, statistics, and more.

Relief Central: free mobile and web resource to assist relief workers, first responders, and others called to serve in disaster relief situations around the world.

Risk Management Agency: this U.S. Department of Agriculture site contains information to help producers manage their business risks through effective, market-based risk management solutions.

Risk World: Extensive coverage of news on risk assessment and management with archives of news stories back to 1995. Provides abstracts of papers from recent conferences and a collection of research reports, many available online

Society for Risk Analysis: Lists table of contents of the society’s journal, links to sources of specific risk-related resources, such as: data, models, technical reports and a glossary of risk analysis terms.

Domestic Preparedness Journal (Free)

Homeland Security daily newsletter (Free)

Disaster Resource Guide (Free)

Center for Biosecurity Health Security Headlines daily newsletter (Free)

Emergency page: US Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response

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Preparedness page: US Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response

Salus Journal is an international peer-reviewed open access journal for the publication of research papers on law enforcement, national security, and emergency management issues, as well as discussion papers and critical essays. Salus Journal seeks to contribute to practice by inspiring discussion through an interdisciplinary approach.

A humanitarian relief charity that works in the US and internationally to improve the health and lives of people affected by disasters and poverty.

An official website of the U.S.Department of Homeland Security

The award winning online magazine dedicated to the strategy, insight and technology of information security.

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