Natural Hazards Observer
| January 2006 | Volume XXX | Number 3 |
Call for Papers: Annual Hazards and
Disasters Student Paper Competition
The Natural Hazards Center is pleased to announce its third Annual Hazards and Disasters Student Paper Competition for undergraduate and graduate students. Submissions may be theoretical arguments, case studies, literature reviews, or descriptions of research results on topics relevant to the social/behavioral aspects of hazards and disasters, natural, technological, or otherwise. Topics may include, but are not limited to, Hurricane Katrina, the South Asia earthquake, climate change, warning systems, natural hazards mitigation, land use, women and children in disasters, disaster myths, or the transport of hazardous materials. Papers will be judged on their originality, organization, and demonstrated knowledge of the topic. One undergraduate and one graduate winner will each receive $100; a mention in the Natural Hazards Observer; publication on the Natural Hazards Center Web site; an invitation to the Annual Hazards Workshop in Boulder, Colorado, registration fees included; and the opportunity to present their work at the workshop’s poster session.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, April 7, 2006. Additional information, including eligibility criteria and submission guidelines, is available online at http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/SPC/. Any questions/inquiries should be directed to Christine Bevc at christine.bevc@colorado.edu.
New Quick Response Report from
the Natural Hazards Center
The following Quick Response report is now available from the Natural Hazards Center. The report can be accessed online at http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/qr/qrrepts.html.
QR178 Evacuation Behavior in Response to the Graniteville, South Carolina, Chlorine Spill, by Jerry T. Mitchell, Andrew S. Edmonds, Susan L. Cutter, Mathew Schmidtlein, Reggie McCarn, Michael E. Hodgson, and Sonya Duhé. 2005.
This research project focused on the evacuation behavior and media response following the Graniteville, South Carolina, train accident of January 6, 2005. Based on survey results, the researchers found that evacuation and notification disparities existed, there was some uncertainty about location in respect to the evacuation zone, there were a few differences in the timing and execution of the evacuation order in terms of household demographics, and a substantial evacuation shadow occurred. In regards to the media response, local and regional media coverage of the event, which emphasized personal stories over expert interviews, was found to be extensive; national coverage was more limited, both in print and on television.
Send Us Your Publications!
The Natural Hazards Center would like all hazards and disaster authors to remember to send us their published books and articles. We promise to give them a good home among the other works that comprise our extensive collection of documents on human adaptation to hazards and related events. As an added incentive, abstracts of works (and links to full text if available) will be included in our online bibliographic database, HazLit, for other researchers, practitioners, and individuals with an interest in hazards and disasters to access. If you are not sure if we have already included your publication in our collection, you can search for it on HazLit at http://ibs.colorado.edu/hazards/Library/Hazlit/NatHazSearch.php. For more information about the Natural Hazards Center’s Library and how it can be of use to you, visit http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/library/.
Please send, fax, or e-mail your published materials to Wanda Headley, Library Manager, Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado, 482 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0482; fax: (303) 492-2151; e-mail: wanda.headley@colorado.edu.