Most readings are available through the electronic collection of our library. You need to have off-site access to our library, which you can arrange at http://www.csulb.edu/library/access.html, if you haven't already had occasion to do so. The majority of library readings will be articles in hazards-related journals, e-books, and web links.

First Week (30 May - 5 June)

Mileti, Dennis S. 1999. The interactive structure of hazard systems. Ch. 4 of Disasters by Design: A Reassessment of Natural Hazards in the United States, pp. 105-133. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press.

Go to the library home page, http://www.csulb.edu/library/. There, select "Search the Catalog (COAST)" and, under that "by Title." This puts you at a search engine. Do a search on "Disasters by Design" and one of the choices under the Books & Media tab should get you to the e-book, where you click on "Access via the Internet." Then, click on "Table of Content," and select Chapter Four, and you are good to go.

Second Week (6 June - 12 June)

Whybark, D. Clay. 2015. Co-creation of improved quality in disaster response and recovery. International Journal of Quality Innovation 1: 3. doi: 10.1186/s40887-015-0001-y. Available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40887-015-0001- y/fulltext.html (reviews phases of the disaster cycle and opportunities for co-creation of better outcomes among responsible agencies and affected communities).

Wachinger, Gisela, and Renn, Ortwin. 2010. The background of risk perception factors of natural hazards. Ch. 3 of Risk Perception and Natural Hazards, pp. 21-33. CapHaz-Net WP3 Report. DIALOGIK Non-Profit Institute for Communication and Cooperative Research, Stuttgart. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tracey_Coates/publication/228827276/ (provides status report on hazard perception literature since the 1980s).

Third Week (13 June - 19 June)

Nathe, Sarah; Gori, Paula; Greene, Marjorie; Lemersal, Elizabeth; and Mileti, Dennis. 1999. Public education for earthquake hazards. Natural Hazards Informer 2: 1-12. Read pp. 1-9. Available at http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/publications/informer/infrmr2/informer2.pdf .

Rodrigue, Christine M.; Rovai, Eugenie; with Waligorski, Janna. 2008. Disaster by management: Marijuana cultivation in national forests and national parks. Presentation to the Association of American Geographers, Boston. Available at https://home.csulb.edu/~rodrigue/disbymgt/AAGtalk08.html

Fourth Week (20 June - 26 June)

Paton, Douglas. 2006. Disaster resilience: Building capacity to co-exist with natural hazards and their consequences. Chl. 1 of Disaster Resilience: An Integrated Approach, pp. 3-10, ed. Paton, Douglas, and Johnston, David. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd. Available at: http://research.arch.tamu.edu/media/cms_page_media/3494/Paton_ch1_disasterresilience.pdf. Much of the book is available through Google Books and contains several chapters of interest to this class.

Fifth Week (27 June - 5 July)

Fourth of July holiday

Southern California Earthquake Center. 2016. Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country and Related Resources. Available at http://www.earthquakecountry.info/roots/. There are several variants on the famous original from 1995. Choose one to read, ideally the one for the area in which you live and work).

Cal OES. 2015. MyHazards. http://myhazards.caloes.ca.gov/ (browse through the site to get a sense of what's available)

U.S. Geological Survey. 2016. Earthquake hazards program. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ (browse through the site to get a sense of what's available)

Sixth Week (6 July - 10 July)

MIDTERM

Seventh Week (11 July - 17 July)

Minnich, Richard A. 2001. An integrated model of two fire regimes. Conservation Biology 15, 6: 1549-1553. Available at http://www.csulb.edu/library/, in the electronic journals section. You may also be able to download it from http://nature.berkeley.edu/stephens-lab/Minnich.pdf.

Keeley, Jon E., and Fotheringham, C.J. 2001. Historic fire regime in Southern California shrublands. Conservation Biology 15, 6: 1536-1548. Available at http://www.csulb.edu/library/, in the electronic journals section. You may also be able to download it from http://www.californiachaparral.com/images/Cons_Bio_Keeley_and_CJ.pdf.

Eighth Week (18 July - 24 July)

National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. No date. Flooding resources page. http://www.floodsafety.noaa.gov (browse through the site to get a sense of what's available)

Precipitation Measurement Missions. Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 2016. Global flood and landslide monitoring. https://pmm.nasa.gov/trmm/flood-and-landslide-monitoring (browse through the site and interact with the maps to get a sense of what's available)

Ninth Week (25 July - 31 July)

National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 2017. National Hurricane Center. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov (surf around the various tabs and links in here to get an idea of the resources the site provides.

Weather Underground. 2017. Hurricane and tropical cyclones. https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane (again, explore the site's resources -- there are very good storm surge and hurricane preparedness sections)

Tenth Week (1 August - 7 August)

NOAA Center for Tsunami Research. No date. http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov (surf around the various tabs to get a sense of what is available -- the Info link contains an education page, as well as an excellent tsunami link farm).

Atwater, Brian F.; Cisternas, Marco, V.; Bourgeois, Joanne; Dudley, Walter C.; Hendley, James W., II; and Stauffer, Peter H. 2005. Surviving a tsunami -- Lessons from Chile, Hawaii, and Japan. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1187, Version 1.1. Available at https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/c1187/. Based on interviews with survivors of the 1960 M_w Chile earthquake in Chile, Hawai'i, and Japan, this is a compendium of how to save your life in a tsunami.

Optional: This is a well-done BBC documentary about the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which far outstrips the San Andreas Fault for the size of earthquake it regularly produces (the last one, based on Japanese records, was 26 January 1700). It is capable of a 9.0 (or more) on the moment-magnitude scale, where our "big one" might get up to an 8.0. It is thus capable of 10 times more shaking and 32 times as much energy release, and this is a thrust fault. This produces vertical motion, which can raise a tsunami. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEgLjgnv_3c.

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