Natural Hazards Center

NHC
United States of America
Academic & Scientific

Mission

The Natural Hazards Center works to advance and communicate knowledge on hazards mitigation and disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. Using an all-hazards and interdisciplinary framework, the Center fosters information sharing and integration of activities among researchers, practitioners, and policy makers from around the world; supports and conducts research; and provides educational opportunities for the next generation of hazards scholars and professionals.

Disaster Reduction Goal

To reduce disaster risk reduction by advancing scholarly research, making it available and usable to disaster practitioners.

DRR activities
Websites

https://hazards.colorado.edu/

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Publication
Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning for Public Housing in Salt Lake County, Utah
Using Salt Lake County, UT, as a case study, this research examines pre-disaster policies focused on providing post-disaster housing for public housing residents.
Publication
Social vulnerability and the role of Puerto Rico’s healthcare workers after Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria was one of the most devastating storms in United States history.
Publication
The relationship between the community rating system program and business disaster recovery
This study aims to fill a knowledge gap on the extent to which community-level mitigation activities impact business disaster recovery efforts in the US.
News
Intricate and uneven: Housing recovery in coastal communities
Certain housing types and housing markets in coastal communities are often overlooked in the disaster recovery process because American housing recovery policy focuses on single-family, owner-occupied housing and neglects single and multi-family rental housing. In turn, coastal vacation homes contend with limited resources for recovery.
News
USA: Ending bias in disaster mitigation and recovery policies
Biased disaster mitigation leads to unequal disaster impacts and differential recovery rates in cross-sections of communities. These problems are solvable using an approach that improves biased disaster mitigation by investing in better infrastructure in socially vulnerable neighborhoods and updating recovery policy to not overlook vulnerable households.
Publication
Culture, community and disaster
This issue of the Observer focuses on culture, community and disaster and examines several cases of disaster recovery and response regarding community participation and inclusion.
Meetings and conferences
In person
13 July 2011 - 14 July 2011
Broomfield, Colorado
International research committee on disasters researchers meeting 2011
The IRCD Researchers Meeting, a partnership between the International Sociological Association's International Research Committee on Disasters and the Natural Hazards Center, follows the main Hazards Workshop.
Publication
Business recovery related to high-frequency natural hazard events
This report evaluates the perception and preparedness, flood impacts, and recovery of Lewis County (Washington) businesses affected by the December 2007 Pacific Northwest Floods.

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Voluntary Commitments

The organization has no registered commitments.

The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.

Contact information

http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/index.html
[email protected]
+1 3034926818
Fax:
+1 3034926818