Reading for Disaster

National Academies Press  introduces Emergency Preparedness/Disaster Management publications

The National Academies Press is offering a series of documents and eBooks focused on various aspects of preparedness. Many of them are free PDF downloads and make a quick read. The ones I'm reading are linked in the sidebar.

Topics include:

Facing Hazards and Disasters: Understanding Human Dimensions

Grand Challenges in Earthquake Engineering Research: A Community Workshop Report 

Preparedness and Response to a Rural Mass Casualty Incident:Workshop Summary

National Earthquake Resilience: Research, Implementation, and Outreach 

Building Community Disaster Resilience through Private-Public Collaboration  

Crisis Standards of Care: A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response