1999 Hazard Mapping Workshop Bibliography

Caribbean Hazards: General

• Proceedings: Meeting of Experts on Hazard Mapping in the Caribbean. Workshop proceedings, 30 Nov - 4 Dec 1987. Produced by PCDPPP.

• Natural Hazards and Hazard Management in the Greater Caribbean and Latin America. Proceedings of the Second Caribbean Conference on Natural Hazards and Disasters, held in Kingston Jamaica 9 - 12 October 1996.

• A world safe from disasters: The journey of Latin America and the Caribbean. Pan American Health Organisation. 1994.  Pan American Health Organisation, 112pp.

• The Water Resources of Latin America and the Caribbean – Planning, hazards and pollution. United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. 1990.  United Nations Publication. 252pp.

Hazard Assessment Methodologies

• UNDRO Hazard Assessment Manual

• Florida Division of Community Assistance Hazard and Vulnerability Assessment Manuals.

• British Virgin Islands Hazard and Vulnerability Assessment — See the BVI Office of Disaster Preparedess web page for more informa

• Primer on Natural Hazards Management in Integrated Regional Development Planning. OAS 1991.

GIS and Hazards

• IDRISI: Exploration in GIS technology 6: UNITAR

Hazard Specific

Earthquakes and Tsunamis / Earthquake Hazard Assessment

• Bolt, B. A. 1988. Earthquakes. W. H. Freeman and Co. 282pp.

• Lander, J. 1987. Caribbean tsunamis: An initial history. Natural Hazards and Hazards Management in the Greater Caribbean and Latin America, Proceedings of the Second Caribbean Conference on Natural Hazards and Disasters, 1-18.

• Seismic Research Unit, 1997. Seismological Bulletin, April – June 1997. University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.

• Seismic Research Unit, 1997. Seismological Bulletin, July – September, 1997. University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.

• Shepherd, J. 1987. Earthquake and volcanic hazard assessment and monitoring in the Commonwealth Caribbean: Current status and needs for the future. Proceedings of the Meeting of Experts on Hazard Mapping in the Caribbean, Jamaica, 50-61.

Volcanoes / Volcanic Hazard Maps and Assessment

• Shepherd, J. B. et al., 1979. The eruption of Soufriere volcano, St. Vincent, April-June 1979. Nature, vol. 282. No. 5734, 24-28.

• Hooper D. M., Mattioli, G. S. and T. P. Kover. 1997. Computer-simulation models of pyroclastic flows and lahars at Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat: Applicatons to Hazard Assessment. Proceedings of the Second Caribbean Conference on Natural Hazards and Disasters: Natural hazards and hazard management in the greater Caribbean and Latin America, 19-32.

Landslides / Landslide Hazard Maps and Assessment

• Ahmad, R. (ed). 1997 . Natural hazards and hazard management in the Greater Caribbean and Latin America. Proceedings of the Second Caribbean Conference on Natural Hazards and Disasters, Kingston, Jamaica, 235pp.

• De Graff, J. 1987. Landslide Hazard on Dominica, West Indies: Final Report. Unpublished report submitted to the Commonwealth of Dominica and the Department of Regional Development of the Organisation of American States, 25pp.

• De Graff, J. et al.1989. Landslides: Their extent and significance in the Caribbean. Proceedings of the 28^th International Geological Congress: Symposium on Landslides, 51-82.

• Rogers, C. T. 1995, Post Tropical Storm Debbie Landslide hazard Assessment Study of St. Lucia. Organisation of American States – Caribbean Disaster Mitigation Project. 34pp.

• Rogers, C. T. 1996, Landslide hazard data for watershed management and development planning, St. Lucia, West Indies. Proceedings of the Second Caribbean Conference on Natural Hazards and Disasters: Natural hazards and hazard management in the greater Caribbean and Latin America, 150-164.

• Varnes, D. J. 1984. Landslides: Analysis and Control. Special Report 176, Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences.

Floods / Flood Hazard Map and Assessment

• Collymore, J. and M. Griffith. 1987. Flooding in Speightown: towards a flood management strategy. proc above 117-125.

• Federal Emergency Management Agency. 1985. Reducing Losses in High Risk Flood Hazard Areas: a Guidebook for Local Officials.

• Molina, M. 1987. The Process of Flood Hazard Mapping in Jamaica. Proc. Hazard Mapping Meeting, Kingston, Jamaica, 30-34.

• Central Emergency Relief Organisation, 1999. Report of Meeting to review operational and response procedures to flooding held on January 12 1999. Central Emergency Relief Organisation, Barbados. 8pp.

Hazard Mitigation Planning

• CDMP's Hazard Mitigation Planning Resources Page

• Hazard Mitigation Plans on the web: St. Lucia (draft), US Virgin Islands