'High impact events' presentation slideshows

Disasters ( Quarantelli, in Cutter (1994): Ch 2 )

Geography 106b Hazards. Disasters ( Quarantelli, in Cutter (1994): Ch 2 ). short history of disaster research defining disasters disasters worldwide disaster trends explaining disaster trends two schools of thought on disaster trends. Short History of Disaster Research.

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Rating Snowstorms Based on Travel Impacts

Rating Snowstorms Based on Travel Impacts. Ernie Ostuno National Weather Service, GRR. Storm Impact: Travel Conditions. Recent survey found (not surprisingly) that travel impacts were the leading cause of people altering their normal routines during snowstorms. Two Methods of Ranking Storms.

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Risks from Meteorology and Vulnerability

Hazard Monitoring at KNMI (Netherlands) By Frank Kroonenberg (crisis coordinator/senior meteorologist at KNMI). Risks from Meteorology and Vulnerability. Small country approx 42.000 km2 with high density of people 495 persons/km2

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Operational Risk & the Regulatory Environment

Operational Risk & the Regulatory Environment. Simon Hills Director - Prudential Capital team. Operational Risk & the Regulatory Environment. What is Prudential Capital regulation for? enhancing stability of the financial system protecting depositors

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Danger Degree Project

Danger Degree Project. Assessing the Threat of Winter Events. Amanda Graning General Forecaster NWS WFO Duluth, Minnesota. Winter Storm Conference November 9 th , 2009. Danger Degree Project. Weather Forecasting Office Duluth, MN. Motivation.

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OUTCOME FROM WINTER TPARC WORKSHOP

OUTCOME FROM WINTER TPARC WORKSHOP. Zoltan Toth & Yucheng Song. http://wwwt.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/gmb/ens/index.html. OUTLINE. SUMMARY LOGISTICS OBSERVING ASSETS SCIENCE PLAN OPERATIONAL PROCEDURES APPLICATIONS / EVALUATION OUTREACH. SUMMARY. OBJECTIVE

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SAMI Strategy & Management Insights

SAMI Strategy & Management Insights. Scenario Planning for long tail high impact events triggered by Global Resource Constraints Gill Ringland November 2013. WEF Global Risks 2013. I mpact. Likelihood (next ten years). Global Scenarios. Community based. Many Hands. Long Hand.

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