Disaster Management Resources

Indexes and Databases

Agricola - Agriculture & life sciences.
1970 – current - Some full-text

Aqualine - All aspects of water resources.
1960 – current - Some full-text

ASFA Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts - Marine biotechnology, molecular biology and molecular genetics.
1989 – current - Some full-text

Bacteriology Abstracts - Medically-oriented coverage in bacteriology.
1982 – current - Some full-text

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management - Environmental biotechnology, engineering, pollution.
1967 – current - Some full-text

Global Health – A specialist public health database with an emphasis on international health.
1973 – current - Some full-text

Health and Safety Science Abstracts - Public health, safety, and industrial hygiene.
1981 – current - Some full-text

PILOTS - Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress
1871 – current - Some Full-Text

Risk Abstracts - Industrial, technological, and environmental risk with an emphasis on assessment and management of risk.
1990 – current - Some full-text

Toxicology Abstracts - Toxicology & hazardous substances, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, contaminants.
1981 – current - Some full-text

TOXLINE  - All areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens.
1981 – current - Some full-text

Water Resources Abstracts - Characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources.
1967 – current - Some full-text

Research Websites

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - ATSDR

CDC Centers for Public Health Preparedness

CDC Emergency Preparedness and Response - Bioterrorism

Environmental Health and Toxicology(NLM)

EPA - U. S. Environmental Protection Agency

Demographic information for Orleans and surrounding parishes - GNOCDC

Hurricane Katrina Resources

NewsBank Natural Disasters

State of Louisiana

WHO Epidemic Alert Network

WHO Water & Sanitation

WISER - Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders - A system designed to assist first responders in hazardous material incidents.

Reference Tools

NetLibrary – Multidisciplinary e-books.

The National Academies Press – E-books on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, health, and health policy. Many are pdf, full-text.

Terminology - Search terms for disaster risk reduction

Bibliography

Historical Bibliography