Author: Valerie Rapp
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: costs, outcomes, balancing, hazard, fire, reducing
Number of Pages: 12
Published: 2010-11
ISBN-10: 1437905617
ISBN-13: 9781437905618

Massive wildfires in recent years have given urgency to questions of how to reduce fire hazard in Western forests, how to finance the work, and how to use the wood. Hazard is difficult to estimate at a landscape scale, involving concepts from forestry, fire science, economics, ecology, and geography. Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) BioSum is a tool that integrates these concepts and connects existing computer models. People use it to analyze the effectiveness of fire hazard reduction and the financial feasibility of fuel treatments under a range of product prices and fuel treatment prescri

Author: Kay C. Goss
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: planning, operations, emergency, hazard, guide
Number of Pages: 277
Published: 1998-05
ISBN-10: 078814829X
ISBN-13: 9780788148293

Meant to aid State & local emergency managers in their efforts to develop & maintain a viable all-hazard emergency operations plan. This guide clarifies the preparedness, response, & short-term recovery planning elements that warrant inclusion in emergency operations plans. It offers the best judgment & recommendations on how to deal with the entire planning process -- from forming a planning team to writing the plan. Specific topics of discussion include: preliminary considerations, the planning process, emergency operations plan format, basic plan content, functional annex content, hazard-un

Author: James K. Mitchell
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Keywords: disasters, transition, cities, mega, hazard, crucibles
Number of Pages: 554
Published: 1999
ISBN-10: 9280809873
ISBN-13: 9789280809879

As a result of repeated experiences with devastating earthquakes, storms, floods, and wildfires, places like Tokyo, Mexico City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles are already identified with catastrophe in both scientific literature and popular culture. Similar prospects face less obvious urban candidates like Dhaka, Miami, London, Lima, Seoul, and Sydney.In this collaborative study of environmental risks in ten of the world's major cities, geographers, planners, and other experts examine the hazard experiences of case study cities and analyze their future risks. They conclude that the natural di

Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Keywords: food, guidelines, hazards, microbiological, assessment, exposure
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 9241546891
ISBN-13: 9789241546898

Exposure assessment is one of the four steps of microbiological risk assessment, which include hazard identification, exposure assessment, hazard characterization and risk characterization. It provides an estimation of the likely intake of a microbiological hazard in a specific food or a range of foods. It can be undertaken qualitatively or quantitatively and ideally will also provide information on the actual amount of hazard consumed. This volume provides guidelines for the exposure assessment of microbiological hazards in food. It outlines the principles of exposure assessment as well as th

Author: Unknown
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: compliance, hazard, communication, standard, improve, needed, safety, health, osha, action, occupational
Number of Pages: 114
Published: 1993-05-01
ISBN-10: 1568063377
ISBN-13: 9781568063379

Provides information on employer compliance with the Hazard Communication Standard, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's efforts to inform small employers about the standard, and the accuracy and clarity of material safety data sheets required by the standard. Charts, graphs and map.

Author: Linda K. Moore
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: hazard, warnings, eas, system, alert, emergency
Number of Pages: 14
Published: 2011-04
ISBN-10: 1437919197
ISBN-13: 9781437919196

The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is built on a structure conceived in the 1950¿s when over-the-air broadcasting was the best-available technol. for widely disseminating emergency alerts. It is one of several federally managed warning systems. The NOAA/NWS weather radio system has been upgraded to an all-hazard warning capability. The Dept. of Homeland Security is implementing a program that will disseminate nat. alert messages over digital broadcast airwaves, using satellite and public TV broadcast towers. This program is called the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS). Contents

Author: DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: reports, combined, central, hazards, earthquake, reducing
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 2000-07-01
ISBN-10: 0788186450
ISBN-13: 9780788186455

Six reports prepared for the U.S. Geological Survey by the Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The six reports are combined in this one report are entitled: Local Earthquake Hazard Reduction Plans; Education of Architects and Engineers; Seismic Hazard Mapping; State Seismic Safety Advisory Committees; Historic Resources; and Nonstructural Hazards.