Free Internet Resources
The items below are freely-available online resources. They appear here because they meet the criteria required by UNT Libraries' Collection Development Policy for Open Access and Born-Digital Resources.
There are hundreds of resources related to disaster research on the web. The ones noted on this page are sample representatives of a wide variety of publications, databases, tools, societies and institutions that address disaster research issues.
Institutions & Organizations
The entities listed here produce and publish at least some scholarly research materials.
- United States Geological Survey (USGS)See publications and departments devoted to specific types of hazards like earthquakes, landslides, volcanos, etc.
Handbooks & Manuals
- Disaster management reference handbooksHandbooks for disaster management in Asia and the southern hemisphere
Noteworthy Publications
- Social vulnerability index for the United StatesSee menu options on the page for time frames other than the most recent published one.
- World disasters reports [International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies]Select 'disaster/crisis' in the Categories filter to find reports (report is not issued for every year).
