AGCI Session I: Natural Hazards and Global Change

Session Chairs: Louis Walter and E. L. Quarantelli - July 10 to 20, 1996

Acronyms

AID Agency for International Development

BAREPP Bay Area Regional Earthquake Preparedness Project

CENR Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Research

CISET Committee on International Science, Engineering, and Technology Policy

CUSEC Central United States Earthquake Consortium

DAAC Distributed Active Archive Center

DIS Data and Information System

DOD Department of Defense

EOS Earth Observing System

EOSDIS Earth Observing System Data and Information System

FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency

GIS Geographic Information System

GNP Gross National Product

GPS Global Positioning System

HUD Housing and Urban Development

ICMA International City/County Management Association

IDNDR International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction

NDR Natural Disaster Reduction

NHDR Natural Hazard and Disaster Reduction

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology

NMS National Mitigation Strategy

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NSF National Science Foundation

Sandbagging during 1993 Midwest floods. FEMA photo by Andrea Booker.

"Disasters" are social occasions involving major disruptions of community life, while "hazards" are potentially dangerous physical agents which often give rise to disasters.

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