The catalog of the UNT Libraries has a wide range of materials related to global disaster planning, response and recovery. Keyword searching is very broad and will return the most results, but some of the results will not be on target.
Click on the phrases, linked below, to conduct a keyword search of the catalog.
Subject searches will find a smaller set of results that are all directly related to the topic. The terms in this section are especially useful for finding research on disaster planning, response and recovery.
Click on the linked subject term phrases to search the catalog.
Disaster management: international lessons in risk reduction, response and recovery by 
Using social and information technologies for disaster and crisis management by 
Mass notification and crisis communications: planning, preparedness, and systems by 
Community disaster recovery and resiliency: exploring global opportunities and challenges by 
Comparative emergency management: examining global and regional responses to disasters by 
Forms of community participation in disaster risk management practices by 
Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response 2004 by 
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Disaster Management by Keyword
A keyword search returns the highest number of results. Some sample keyword searches are provided in the "Keyword Searches in the Catalog" box in the left column of this page
The terms you search can appear in the fields for title, author, subject, content notes and elsewhere within a record. Follow these suggestions to narrow the results:
• Enclose words in quotation marks to ensure that the records retrieved include the two words as a phrase: "disaster recovery"
• Add more topic terms or phrases: emergency management planning
Subject
The "Subject Searches in the Catalog" box in the left column of this page has links to searches on the most likely topics related to disaster research. Additional subject terms that may be helpful appear in the box below.
• civil defense readiness
• command and control at fires
• disaster medicine
• drought relief
• drought management
• earthquake relief
• emergency clothing supply
• emergency drills
• emergency food supply
• emergency housing
• emergency medical services
• emergency public utility services
• emergency sanitation
• emergency transportation
• emergency water supply
• environmental disasters
• food relief
• flood damage prevention
• forest fires — prevention and control
• humanitarian assistance
• hurricane protection
• incident command systems
• international relief
• Lahar mitigation
• medical social work
• natural disasters
• pesticides — risk mitigation
• public safety
• public shelters
• Red Cross and Red Crescent
• rescue work
• rest centers (disaster relief)
• tsunami relief
• war relief
• women in disaster relief
