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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Disaster Management (a.k.a. Emergency management) including the central phases: Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. Individual hazards (e.g. earthquakes and dirty bombs) and their resulting disasters (e.g. the Boxing Day tsunami and the World Trade center attack) are also covered. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

Contents 1 Title 2 Scope 3 Similar WikiProjects 3.1 Parentage 3.2 Sister WikiProjects 4 Participants 4.1 Member template 5 Structure 6 Hierarchy definition 7 Projects 8 Goals (proposed) 9 To-Do 10 Templates 10.1 Stub templates 11 Resources 11.1 Categories 11.2 Central articles 11.3 Bibliography

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WikiProject on Disaster Management

[edit] Scope

The main aim of this WikiProject is to develop consistently formatted articles relating to the disaster management and to improve the standard of these articles.

The scope of this WikiProject is any article relating to policies as well as implementations of disaster management. This include emergency services operations (police, ambulance, and fire service) as well as the phenomenological description of natural and man-made hazards. It also include individual disastrous events, e.g. hurricane Katrina and the Ethiopian famine in the 1980s.

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

There are several Wikiprojects related to disaster management seeing that disasters do not occur without hazards:

• International development
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Meteorology
  • Tropical cyclones
• Transport
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains

[edit] Parentage

No parent of this WikiProject has been defined.

[edit] Sister WikiProjects

• Comprehensive listing of disasters
• Wikiversity's School of Fire and Emergency management

[edit] Participants

If you want to help out, just add your name and join in!

1. rxnd 14:19, 9 April 2006 (UTC) - This is the first project that I have started so I need all the help that I can get!
2. Backburner001 - Studying emergency management at The University of Akron; has been slowly working on related articles.
3. Revmachine21 19:30, 10 April 2006 - Practicing Business Continuity Management for a financial firm in Tokyo, Japan.
4. Proto 13:44, 11 April 2006 - Working for the NHS in the UK, do a lot of business continuity planning, and good old ISO 7799. Won't have much time to spare on this but will chip in where I can. Proto||type 11:43, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
5. Sapient 21:42, 18 April 2006 (UTC) - Working in this field in London, UK. Will help where I can.
6. Wikiwriter706 22:10, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
7. Her Pegship Married to an emergency response guy. My bag is usually books & films, but I can drop in and help out.
8. . SmthManly / ^ManlyTalk / ^{ManlyContribs} -- I pretty much rewrote Columbine High School massacre into FA status back in August (and I watch it like my child, practically), so I might as well sign up. What this project all about?
9. Singkong2005 - I'm more focused on development, esp appropriate technology, water treatment & sanitation, but there is overlap and I will help out here when I can. Feel free to ask, especially if there's a question in my area.
10. Carcharoth 08:59, 27 May 2006 (UTC) - Interested in disasters in general, both natural and man-made. I've done previous work on categorisation, and would like to continue helping in this area.
11. Green Fairy 17:39, 9th June 2006 (GMT) - Doctoral student in the UK researching post WW2 civil defence in the UK and US, would be glad to help out in that area.
12. Niayre 20:18, 15 June 2006 (EST) - Undergrad student researching terrorism & disaster preparedness issues. I've done alot of research on bioterrorism response. Let me know what I can do to help.
13. Daysleeper47 13:29, 10 July 2006 (EST) - I'm studying terrorism and WMD, and work in emergency management and would be happy to help out.
14. Kieran T ^{(talk | contribs)} 21:06, 24 July 2006 (UTC) – Humanitarian aid worker. Feel free to ask for an extra pair of hands/eyes, especially with rooting out point-of-view politics.
15. Epolk 17:37, 31 August 2006 (UTC) - I don't have anything to do with disaster management on a professional or academic level but I am interested in the science of disaster management, especially US&R.
16. Blood red sandman 06:21, 26 September 2006 (UTC) - I have a strong interest in the field of looking at existing disasters and determining what went wrong/could have prevented it, but my strongest interest is in commercial aviation accidents.
17. Somethingsquare 12:04, 02 October 2006 (GMT) - I am a receptionist and so will be looking for the humanitarian side of evacuations, and best practice in guest assistance.
18. --Nishkid64 01:39, 3 October 2006 (UTC) I'll try to help contribute to specific disaster articles, and also general natural and man-made disaster articles. I also am the creator and the maintainer of Portal:Disasters.
19. --Parradoxx 14:12, 10 October 2006 (UTC) I am pursuing a career option in emergency management/emergency response, largely through courses offered locally by county and state government.
20. --Badger151 21:07, 20 October 2006 (UTC) Former paramedic & EMT, current ambulance driver, med student & MPH student - intending a career in disaster response planning and management.
21. --Ronja Addams-Moring 13:12, 26 October 2006 (UTC) Ex-nurse, currently a student of computer and network security and sociotechnical systems. Have been doing research on public warning / emergency announcement systems since 2003. Extremely busy, but will help when I can.
22. --Rediguananz 05:52, 1 November 2006 (UTC) Emergency Management consultant in New Zealand. Started as a Civil Defence volunteer, but now working developing plans and delivering exercises for a wide range of public sector organisations here. Also providing strategic guidance and management to the Sahana project. Also very busy, but will contribute where possible. Also a member of the International Association of Emergency Managers.
23. Vikram Sorathia - PhD Candidate at DA-IICT working on automation issues of Situation Awareness capabilities of Disaster Management Information Systems.
24. Thisisbossi - Mostly assessments and minor edits, but I sometimes do larger edits. I am involved with traffic management during emergency situations.
25. Dragomiloff - CERT volunteer, former wildland firefighter, and something of a "preparedness buff".

[edit] Member template

If you want to you can use this code to add a member template to your user page:

Just add yourself to the list above, and add this userbox to your userpage:	This user is a member of the Disaster Management WikiProject.
Use this code:	{{User_WikiProject_DM}}

If you don't like userboxes, then just add [[Category:WikiProject Disaster management members]]

[edit] Structure

A structure for articles relating to the Diaster Managament is definitely required, but has not yet been agreed upon.

[edit] Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined. A temporary suggestion is to build out of the central concept of disaster management and subclassify articles according to their position in the disaster management cycle (i.e. mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery).

[edit] Projects

No projects defined as of yet.

[edit] Goals (proposed)

1. Create disaster management portal
2. Create a categorisation of concepts and applied terminology
3. Maintain one inventory page of disastrous events, see list of disasters
4. Merge articles that describe similar concepts into one comprehensive article

[edit] To-Do

There is a lot of duplication of efforts and confusion of terminology surrounding disaster management on wiki now. Examples includes Disasters and Natural disasters. The current categorisation is also far from great, lacking in structure and logic. The task to clean up in this domain is immense, but it has to be done.

Disaster management to-do list
Improve: Limnic eruption Emergency management Environmental disaster should be Environmental hazard? Disaster recovery	Expand: Disaster response HAZUS Stampede Bambi bucket Urban search and rescue FEMA US&R Task Forces	Create: Vulnerability (Society) see Vulnerability Hazard (Society) see Natural hazard Man-made disaster (currently is a redirect to the category)
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[edit] Templates

This template is to be placed on the talk page of any article relating to the Disaster Management:

• {{Disaster management}}

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Disaster Management.

[edit] Stub templates

• {{disaster-stub}} for stubs relating to the Disaster Management

• Alternative Stub templates
  • None identified as of yet.

[edit] Resources

• The natural disaster article assessment

[edit] Categories

• Category:Emergency management
  • Category:Disasters
  • Category:Disaster preparedness
  • Category:Disaster management tools

• Category:Safety
• Category:Risk

[edit] Central articles

• Emergency management
• Emergency services
  • Public safety
  • Civil defence
• Disasters, List of disasters
  • Natural disasters
    • Severe weather
  • Man-made disasters

[edit] Bibliography

• Alexander, D., 2002, Natural Disasters, London: Routledge, ISBN 1-85728-094-6
• Alexander, D., 2002, Principles of Emergency planning and Management, Harpended: Terra publishing, ISBN 1-903544-10-6
• Haddow, George D. and Jane A. Bullock, 2003, Introduction to Emergency Management, Amsterdam: Butterworth-Heinemann, ISBN 0-7506-7689-2
• Quarantelli, E.L., 1998, What is a disaster - Perspectives on the question, New York: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-17899-1
• Wisner, B., P. Blaikie, T. Cannon, and I. Davis, 2004, At Risk - Natural hazards, people's vulnerability and disasters, Wiltshire: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-25216-4