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161 Centenary of the Tunguska Asteroid pdf
160 Let them heat coke (Buttonwood) pdf
159 The European Flood Risk Management Directive pdf
158 August 17 1999, Magnitude 7.4 Izmit Earthquake, Turkey pdf
157 Gauging a Collider's Odds of Creating a Black Hole pdf
156 12 May 2008 Earthquake in Sichuan Province, China pdf
155 Australia's climate in 2007 pdf
154 Modelling future trends in severe hailstorms in Sydney pdf
153 A Faustian Bargain? Response from Dr George Walker pdf
152 A Faustian Bargain? pdf
151 Understanding El Nino - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and its predictability pdf
150 Prisoner of experience? - A personal talke from the 9/12/07 Sydney hailstorm pdf
149 20 December 2007 Magnitude 6.6 Gisborne Earthquake pdf
148 Sustainable Energy Technologies pdf
147 Confronting Disaster Losses pdf
146 A NSW State Emergency Service Perspective on Storm Damage in 2006/07 pdf
145 Sometimes the All Blacks lose! pdf
144 Volcanological Support for Evacuation Decision-Making pdf
143 Global Climate Change: A Challenge to Policy pdf
142 The Mw 8.0 Peru Earthquake of 15 August, 2007 pdf
141 Climate Change: The Uncertainties, the Certainties, and What They Imply About Action pdf
140 Insurance and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption pdf
139 "The Great Global Warming Swindle": a critique pdf
138 East coast lows and maritime mishaps pdf
137 Insurance and bushfire vulnerability in rural Australia pdf
136 Infrastructure Failure Interdependencies pdf
135 Sources of disease outbreak information pdf
134 Flooding in Fiji: the latest pdf
133 Statistics of Deadly Quarrels pdf
132 The Changing Face of Tornadoes pdf
131 El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO): The current state of play pdf
130 Book Review: The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki pdf
129 The heat is on - now there is little doubt! pdf
128 The Human Hailstone pdf
127 The Tsunami Evaluation Coalition pdf
126
Moros y Christianos. Home Grown Terrorism pdf
125
Some Economics of Global Warming pdf
124
Caravan Parks and Flooding - a Complex Risk pdf
123
The heat is on pdf
122
Public-domain Global Datasets for Hazard Risk Studies pdf
121
Pandemic & Business Continuity Planning pdf
120
The Inter-decadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) and El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) pdf
119
The role of "shelter in place" in wildfire management in the USA pdf
118
2005/2006 New South Wales Storm Season: SES Review pdf
117
Preliminary report on the July 17, 2006 Mw 7.7 West Java Earthquake pdf
116
A 1,000-year record of typhoon landfalls in southern China pdf
115
Climate, Buildings and Energy pdf
114
A Tempestuous Birth for Hurricane Climatology pdf
113
Briefing on the magnitude 6.3 Bantul, Java Earthquake of May 26, 2006 pdf
112
Collapsing lava domes: a dangerous uncertainty pdf
111
Insurers Retreat From Coasts pdf
110
Extreme Drought pdf
109
Severe Thunderstorms and El Nino pdf
108
Recreation and visualisation of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake pdf
107
Cities on Volcanoes 4, Equador pdf
106
Historical Sites and Earthquakes pdf
105
Nobody told Tropical Storm Zeta pdf
104
Book Review: Hemingway's Hurricane - The Great Florida Keys Storm of 1935 pdf
103
Extreme Natural Hazards pdf
102
Book Review: Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism pdf
101
The Cost of Fire in Australia pdf
100
And now, the war forecast pdf
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