2004 Workshop Summaries and Abstracts now available online

2004 Workshop Summaries and Abstracts now available online

In July 2004, hazards researchers and professionals, including federal, state, and local government officials, representatives from non-profit organizations and private industry, and other interested individuals, convened in Boulder, Colorado, for the Hazard Center’s 29th Annual Hazards Research and Applications Workshop. As is typical for the workshop, participants debated, explored, and shared information on a wide range of issues. This year’s session topics included the National Response Plan, community-based hazards management, the Project Impact spirit, risk communication, land use planning, benefits and costs of mitigation, remote sensing and GIS, public health, the National Flood Insurance Program, and the legal aspects of hazards and disasters. Plenary sessions addressed hazards and disasters in a homeland security environment, the 2003 California wildfires, and the social impacts of the Bam earthquake and the implications for community recovery.

To share the ideas and discussions presented during the workshop, the Center publishes brief summaries of each session, abstracts of the research presented, and descriptions of the projects and programmes discussed. This is a valuable resource for those who were unable to attend, as well as for those who were. Session summaries and abstracts are available online at www.colorado.edu/hazards/workshop/2004/

(Natural Hazards Observer, November 2004.)