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Urban Public Health: Disasters, Bioterrorism, and Climate Change

A resource guide for students and faculty in the Urban Public Health program

Websites with Public Health Disaster Management Information

Disaster Lit : Database for Disaster Medicine and Public Health
Search freely available literature on disaster preparation and response.

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From NIH Disaster Information Management Research Center
CDC Emergency Preparedness and Response
Public health activities in response to all kinds of natural and man-made disasters.
Bioterrorism - Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
Links to information on preparedness and response to bioterrorist events, as well as specific kinds of agents.

Resource Box: Climate Change and Public Health

Climate and Health Program
Reports of the effects of climate change on health from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Climate Change and Rural Child Health by Erica Bell; Bastian M. Seidel; Joav Merrick
2011, Nova Science Publishers.
World Cities and Climate Change : Producing Urban Ecological Security by Mike Hodson; Simon Marvin
Open University Press, 2010.
Climate Change in California : Risk and Response by Fredrich Kahrl; David Roland-Holst
University of California Press, 2012.

E-books on Disasters, Bioterrorism, and Climate Change in Cities

Climate and Disaster Resilience in Cities : Risk and Response by Rajib Shaw; Anshu Sharma
Emerald Group Publishing, 2011.
Urban Risk Assessments : An Approach for Understanding Disaster and Climate Risk in Cities by Eric Dickson; Judy L. Baker; Daniel Hoornweg; Tiwari Asmita
World Bank, 2012.
Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor : Cities Building Resilience for a Changing World by Judy L. Baker
World Bank, 2012.
The Agile City : Building Well-Being and Wealth in an ERA of Climate Change by James S. Russell
Island Press, 2012.

E-books and E-chapters on Public Health and Disasters

The Bioterrorism Sourcebook by Michael R. Grey; Kenneth R. Spaeth
McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Ciottone's Disaster Medicine by Gregory R. Ciottone (Editor); Mark E. Keim (Editor); Michael S. Molloy (Editor); Philip D. Anderson (Editor); Erik Auf Der Heide (Editor); Robert G. Darling (Editor); Irving Jacoby (Editor); Eric Noji (Editor); Selim Suner (Editor); Paul D. Biddinger (Editor); Saleh Fares (Editor)
2nd ed., Elsevier, 2016.
Disaster Education : Race, Equity and Pedagogy by John Preston
Sense Publishers, 2012.
Local Planning for Terror and Disaster : From Bioterrorism to Earthquakes by Leonard A. Cole; Nancy D. Connell
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Health Care Response to Disasters, Complex Emergencies, and Population Displacement by Robert F. DeFraites, Patrick Hickey, Trueman W. Sharp and Charles W. Beadling
Chapter 29 of Ryan, Edward T., Hill, David R.; Solomon, Tom, Aronson, Naomi, Endy, Timothy P. Hunter's Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases, 10th ed., Elsevier, 2020.
Public Health Management of Disasters : The Practice Guide by Linda Young Landesman
3rd ed., American Public Health Association, 2012.