Flood Risk Perception

The folks at the (Congressional) Hazards Caucus Alliance recently diostributed an interesting paper ... "Flood risk perception in lands ‘‘protected’’ by 100-year levees"... MORE INFO

The discussion in the paper on the perceptions of the folks living behind levees in the California Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta was most interesting.

FYI ... Stefan Zink who was then at Michael Baker Jr., Imc. presented a paper at the March 4, 2008 meeting of the Bay Area HAZUS User Group that might also be of interested to the flood community. This paper addresses some of the problems in trying to use HAZUS-MH to model levee related flooding in the Sacramento region.

Behind Levee Scenarios in HAZUS: Exploring Possibilities with Different Data Sources, DOWNLOAD

The Geospatial Desktop - Open Source GIS & Mapping

The Geospatial Desktop provides a foundational level of knowledge for understanding GIS and the open source desktop mapping applications that are available for use, for free, today. Special sections include focused learning on the Quantum GIS and GRASS GIS software platforms but other packages are also introduced. MORE INFO at Amazon.com

HAZ-I Tools to Internationalize Hazus-MH

This presentation discusses a simplified approach (4 steps) to create a HAZUS study region for international applications.

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FEMA's Emergency Management Institute HAZUS Training for 2012

E170	Hazus-MH for Hurricanes Enroll	Jan 9- 12, 2012
E172	Hazus-MH for Flood Enroll	Jul 16-19, 2012
E174	Hazus-MH for Earthquake Enroll	Dec 19- 21, 2011
E176	Hazus-MH for Floodplain Managers Enroll	Apr 23- 26, 2012
E179	Application of Hazus-MH for Disaster Operations Enroll	Feb 13- 16, 2012
E190	ArcGIS for Emergency Managers Enroll	Apr 30- May 3, 2012
E296	Application of Hazus-MH for Risk Assessment Enroll	Jan 16- 19, 2012 Sep 17-20, 2012
E313	Basic Hazus-MH Enroll	Apr 2-5, 2012
E317	Comprehensive Data Management for Hazus-MH Enroll	Jun 18-21, 2012