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Disaster Management

Selected resources in the RRU library for the study of disaster management.

Kelowna Wildfires of 2003

Also known  as Okanagan Mountain Park Fire

Search strategies:

(“british Columbia” OR Kelowna OR Canada) (wildfires OR fires) (“social impact” OR vulnerabilities OR “case study” OR “community safety”)

 “Okanagan Mountain Park Fire” (“social impact” OR vulnerabilities OR “case study” OR “community safety”)

 

Here is a selected range of articles and reports available from these searches in Summon and on GoogleScholar.

 

Goemans, M., & Ballamingie, P. (2013). Forest as hazard, forest as victim: Community perspectives and disaster mitigation in the aftermath of Kelowna's 2003 wildfires. Canadian Geographer, 57(1), 56-71. doi:10.1111/j.1541-0064.2012.00447.x

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Pacholok, S. (2009). Gendered strategies of self: Navigating hierarchy and contesting masculinities. Gender, Work & Organization, 16(4), 471-500.

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Chiotti, Q., Clarke, K. L., Fry, G., Furgal, C., Riedel, D., & Séguin, J. (2008) Vulnerabilities, Adaptation and Adaptive Capacity in Canada. Human Health in a Changing Climate, 367.

http://epub.sub.uni-hamburg.de/epub/volltexte/2010/5140/pdf/humanhealth.pdf#page=377

 

Nitschke, C. R., & Innes, J. L. (2008). Integrating climate change into forest management in south-central British Columbia:

An assessment of landscape vulnerability and development of a climate-smart framework. Forest Ecology and Management, 256(3), 313-327.

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Doelle, M., Henschel, C., Smith, J., Tollefson, C., & Wellstead, A. (2012). New governance arrangements at the intersection of climate change and forest policy:

institutional, political and regulatory dimensions. Public Administration, 90(1), 37-55. Doi:10.1111/J.1467-9299.2011.02006.X

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Stares, J., Erland, R., Mazey, P., & Rideout, K. (2014). Evidence Review: Use of evacuation to protect public health during wildfire smoke events.

http://www.bccdc.ca/NR/rdonlyres/C5C43F65-56E3-443E-8E4A-7FCDA52D8745/0/WFSG_EvidenceReview_Evacuation_FINAL_V3_edstrs.pdf

 

Gardner, J. S., & Dekens, J. (2007). Mountain hazards and the resilience of social–ecological systems: lessons learned in India and Canada. Natural Hazards, 41(2), 317-336.

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Sandink, D. (2008). The resilience of the City of Kelowna: Exploring mitigation before, during and after the Okanagan Mountain Park Fire. Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction.

http://www.iclr.org/images/ICLR_Report_Kelowna_D4_2.pdf


Saguenay flood in Quebec:

Also referred to as “Ha! Ha! River basin flood

 

Possible searche strategies: 

 

“Saguenay flood”  (“social impact” OR vulnerabilities OR “case study” OR “community safety”)

 

(“Ha! Ha! River”  OR  Quebec)  flood (“social impact” OR vulnerabilities OR “case study” OR “community safety”)

 

Selected range of articles and reports available from these searches in Summon and on GoogleScholar:

 

Furgal, C., & Environmental, I. (2008). Human health in a changing climate: a Canadian assessment of vulnerabilities and adaptive capacity. Human Health in a Changing Climate, 1.

http://www.2degreesc.com/Files/CCandHealth.pdf

 

Ford, J. D., Berrang-Ford, L., King, M., & Furgal, C. (2010). Vulnerability of Aboriginal health systems in Canada to climate change. Global Environmental Change, 20(4), 668-680.

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Powell, S., Plouffe, L., & Gorr, P. (2009). When ageing and disasters collide: lessons from 16 international case studies. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 134(3-4), 202-206.

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Synopsis of the Symposium  on Case Study of the 1996 Saguenay Flood in Québec Quebec City, Canada, May 20, 1998

http://www.saguenay.ggl.ulaval.ca/saguenay/publi/98sagsymenglish.pdf

 

Red River Valley Flood

Red River Valley floods or Red River basin floods

Possible searches:

 "red river valley" floods ( best practices OR "lessons learned")

"red river basin" floods  (“social impact” OR vulnerabilities OR “case study” OR “community safety”)

Selected results from GoogleScholar and Summon:

E. Enarson and J. Scanlon, "Gender Patterns in Flood Evacuation Applied: A Case Study in Canada's Red River Valley,"  Behavioural Science Review, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1999, pp. 103-124.

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Rex, Janet (1999) Social impacts of the Red River Valley Flood: A literature review. Report Submitted to the International Red River Basin Task Force, International Joint Commission. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA. http://www.ijc.org/rel/pdf/soclit.pdf

 

Natural Hazard Center, "Evaluation of a Literature Review of the Social Impacts of the 1997 Red River Flood," Report Submitted to the International Red River Basin Task Force, International Joint Commission. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 1999, p. 11.

http://www.ijc.org/rel/pdf/evalsocimpacts.pdf

 

Enarson, E. (2001). What women do: Gendered labor in the Red River Valley flood. Environmental Hazards, 3(1), 1–18.

https://ezproxy.royalroads.ca/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/0.1016/S1464-2867(01)00009-2

 

Morris-Oswald, M., & Simonovic, S. P. (1997). Assessment of the social impact of flooding for use in flood management in the Red River Basin. International Joint Commission, Red River Basin Task Force.

http://www.ijc.org/rel/pdf/assess.pdf

 

Emdad Haque, C. (2000). Risk assessment, emergency preparedness and response to hazards: The case of the 1997 Red River Valley flood, Canada. Natural Hazards, 21(2), 225-245.

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Enarson, E. (1999). Violence against women in disasters: A study of domestic violence programs in the united states and canada. Violence Against Women, 5(7), 742-768.

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Enarson, E., & Scanlon, J. (1999). Gender patterns in flood evacuation: A case study in canada's red river valley. Applied Behavioral Science Review, 7(2), 103-124. 

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Simonovic, S. P., & Carson, R. W. (2003). Flooding in the red river basin – lessons from post flood activities. Natural Hazards, 28(2), 345-365.

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Ice Storms of 1998

Possible search strategies:

 

“ice storm” (Quebec OR Ontario OR Canada)

 

“ice storm” “disaster management”

 

(“winter storms” OR “ice storms”) (“best practices” OR “lessons learned”)

 

Book in Library:

Facing the unforeseeable: lessons from the ice storm of '98 : report of the Commission scientifique et technique chargée d'analyser les événements relatifs à la tempête de verglas survenue du 5 au 9 janvier 1998, ainsi que l'action des divers intervenants

by Nicolet, Roger and Québec (Province). Commission scientifique et technique chargée d'analyser les événements relatifs à la tempête de verglas survenue du 5 au 9 janvier 1998

Call Num: HV555.C3P6813 1999


 

Chang, S. E., McDaniels, T. L., Mikawoz, J., & Peterson, K. (2007). Infrastructure failure interdependencies in extreme events: power outage consequences in the 1998 Ice Storm. Natural Hazards, 41(2), 337–358. doi:10.1007/s11069-006-9039-4

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Kerry, M., Kelk, G., Etkin, D., Burton, I., & Kalhok, S. (1999). Glazed over. Environment, 41(1), 6 p.
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McDaniels, T., Chang, S., Cole, D., Mikawoz, J., & Longstaff, H. (2008). Fostering resilience to extreme events within infrastructure systems: Characterizing decision contexts for mitigation and adaptation. Global Environmental Change, 18(2), 310–318. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.03.001

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Henson, W., Stewart, R., & Kochtubajda, B. (2007). On the precipitation and related features of the 1998 ice storm in the Montréal area. Atmospheric Research, 83(1), 36-54. doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2006.03.006

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Scanlon, J. (1998) Military support to civil authorities: The Eastern Ontario ice storm.

Military Review (0026-4148), 07/1998, Volume 78, Issue 4, p. 41 
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Statistics Canada has a report and map about the ice storm.

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/16f0021x/4194604-eng.pdf