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    Briefing Notes - Major Sponsors  
   
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