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  • Summary of Awards 1976, Division of Advanced Environmental Research and Technology.
    January 1976, 120 p.
    Identifying Number(s): NSF/RA-760219
    Keywords: Federal assistance programs; Disasters; Projects; Weather modification; Research management; Project planning; Hazards; Grants; Energy; Environmental protection; Environmental impacts; Fires; Pollution; Contracts; Regional planning; Chemical compounds; Surveys; Protection; Cost effectiveness; Earthquakes

  • Burger, R. M.; Massoglia, M. F.
    RANN Utilization Experience (Case Studies 22 through 31).
    National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. Research Applied to National Needs., August 1976, 288 p.
    Keywords: Computers; Cloud seeding; Lithium sulfur cells; Data acquisition; Projects; Weather modification; Technology; Storage batteries; Spoil; X ray fluorescence; Research applied to national needs; Case studies; Earthquakes; Refuse disposal; Technology utilization; Research utilization; Utilization; Fires; Dredging; Corridor fires; Research; Fire spread; Atmospheric physics; Surveys; Smoke; Construction; Rocky Mountain Region (United States)

  • Summary of Awards 1975, Division of Advanced Environmental Research and Technology.
    January 1975, 137 p.
    Identifying Number(s): ['NSF-75-41', 'NSF/RA/E-75/215']
    Keywords: Investigations; Federal assistance programs; Metals; Disasters; Organic compounds; Urban areas; Weather modification; Hazards; Grants; Energy; Environmental protection; Rural areas; Research projects; Environmental impacts; Trace contaminants; Land use; Fires; Water pollution; Nitrogen inorganic compounds; Air pollution; Regional planning; Management planning; Earthquakes

  • Cochrane, H. C.; Revier, C. F.; Nakagawa, T.
    Impact of Disasters on Construction Costs.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Applied Science and Research Applications., January 1978, 120 p.
    Keywords: ; Housing studies; Disasters; Floods; Tornadoes; Prices; Real property; Residential buildings; Assessments; Land use; Supply (Economics); Fires; Economic impact; Inflation; Economic models; Demand (Economics); Construction costs; Cyclones; Earthquakes

  • National Conference on Earthquakes and Related Hazards: Earthquake Prediction, Reaction and Response to Prediction, Hazard Reduction, Public Policy, Invitational Conference, 1977 Held at Boulder, Colorado on November 16-18, 1977.
    January 1977, 87 p.
    Keywords: Natural disasters; Earthquake prediction; Attitudes; Land use; Seismic risk; Fires; Earthquake engineering; Floods; Risk; Meetings; Hazards; Government policies; Tsunamis; Earthquakes

  • Busch, C. A.; Whitman, R. V.; Becker, J. M.
    Residential Construction in Boston at the Time of the Cape Ann Earthquake of 1755.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Office of Planning and Resources Management., June 1979, 140 p.
    Keywords: Damage assessment; Earthquake resistant structures; Massachusetts; Construction materials; Structural design; Fires; Boston (Massachusetts); Residential buildings; History; Cape Ann earthquake; Dynamic structural analysis

  • Quarantelli, E. L.
    Development of Collaborative Japan-United States Socio-Behavioral Disaster Research.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., February 1982, 232 p.
    Keywords: ; Research projects; Bibliographies; Hurricanes; Volcanoes; Behavior; United States; Disasters; Fires; Floods; Hazards; Tornadoes; Snowstorms; Tsunamis; Japan; Information systems; Earthquakes

  • Rossi, P. H.; Wright, J. D.; Weber-Burdin, E.; Pereira, J.
    Acts of God, Acts of Man, Victimization by Natural Hazards in the United States.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., January 1982, 293 p.
    Keywords: Hurricanes; Damage; United States; Disasters; Tornadoes; Disaster relief; Hazards; Floods; Fires; Property damage; Surveys; Losses; Earthquakes

  • Tierney, K. L.; Petak, W. J.; Hahn, H.
    Disabled Persons and Earthquake Hazards.
    National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA., cJanuary 1988, 170 p.
    Keywords: ; Emergency preparedness; Senior citizens; Emergency planning; Nursing homes; Disasters; Intermediate care facilities; Earthquake; Risk assessment; Literature surveys; Social effect; Hazards; Handicapped persons; Physically handicapped; Case studies; California; Earthquake damage; Fires; Buildings; Elderly persons; Losses; Disabled persons; Local planning

  • Spiker, E. C.; Gori, P. L.
    National Landslide Hazards Mitigation Strategy: A Framework for Loss Reduction.
    September 2000, 60 p.
    Identifying Number(s): USGS-OFR-00-450
    Keywords: Emergency preparedness; Landslides; Federal government; Disasters; Floods; Reduction; Geological processes; Mitigation; Control; Risk assessment; Mapping; Costs; State government; Hazards; Land use; Ground movements; Disaster Relief Act of 1974; Fires; Local government; Losses; Compliance; Monitoring; Strategies; Earthquakes