http://hdl.handle.net/10590/6 2017-07-10T01:22:12Z http://hdl.handle.net/10590/7752 Comprehensive emergency management for local governments: demystifying emergency planning. Gordon, James A. This book is intended to be a "how to" guide for the local government employee designated to be the Emergency Program Coordinator. Based heavily on the Canadian context and the British Columbia experience specifically, it presents principles and processes for urban and regional settings worldwide regardless of the actual local, regional, state/province or national government presence or role. Non-governmental agencies and not-for-profit organizations anywhere in the world will also find the principles and processes presented herein useful when working with different levels of government. The guide provides a step-by-step approach towards attaining comprehensive emergency management, or parts thereof where specific or partial planning is all that is needed. Comprehensive Emergency Management has two aspects which are incorporated into this book: preparedness planning and actual emergency management. Topics included are mitigation efforts to avoid potential hazards or to accept and fully understand those which cannot be avoided; the development of a Preparedness Plan that includes a hierarchy of different plans; and, response and recovery issues. It also uses examples that address mutual aid agreements, staff and facility preparedness, public education, training and exercises. 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10590/7751 Pressure vessel integrity and weld inspection procedure. Solomon, Kenneth A.; Okrent, David; Kastenberg, William E. The primary objective of this study is to develop a simple methodology which, when coupled with existing observations on pressure vessel behavior, provides an inter-relation between nuclear pressure vessel weld integrity and the parameters of the in-service inspection program, including inspection sample size, frequency, and efficiency. The basic input information on rate of generation and development of weld flaws of different sizes and types is drawn primarily from published British and German studies. The British and German data is taken almost exclusively from welds of non nuclear pressure vessels. The input information is varied to reflect differences in weld quality and uncertainty of input data. Grant GI-39416 1975-02-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10590/7750 An overview of buried lifeline earthquake engineering. Wang, Leon R.L.; O'Rourke, Michael J. This paper presents state of the art information on the behavior and design of buried lifelines such as submerged tunnels, gas, water and sewer distribution lines subjected to earthquakes. Specifically, a survey of pipelines damage due to past earthquakes as well as current design practices, analysis procedures, code provisions and the latest published research are discussed. Technical Report (SVBDUPS Project) No. 1A , Grant No. ENV76-14884 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10590/7748 Evidence for the effect of homes on wildfire suppression costs. Gude, Patricia H.; Greenwood, Mark C.; Jones, Kingsford; Rasker, Ray This paper uses wildfires in the Sierra Nevada area of California to estimate the relationship between housing and fire suppression costs. Researchers investigated whether the presence of homes was associated with increased costs of firefighting after controlling for the effects of potential confounding variables including fire size, weather, terrain and human factors such as road access. The paper analyses costs at the daily level, retaining information that would have been lost had the data been aggregated. Linear mixed models were used to estimate the effects of homes on daily costs while incorporating within-fire variation. The study concludes that the expected increase in the log daily cost with each unit increase in the log count of homes within 6 miles (,9.7 km) of an active fire is 0.07 (P¼0.005). The findings of this study are in agreement with most other previous empirical studies that have investigated the relationship between fire suppression costs and housing using cumulative fire costs and more generalized data on home locations. The study adds to mounting evidence that increases in housing lead to increases in fire suppression costs. 2013-01-03T00:00:00Z