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a.
NGO Reports, Networks And Discussion Groups
b.
U.S. Government Links
c.
International Organization Links
d.
Books and Articles
e.
Emergency Preparedness Sites
f.
Public Sector Links
a.
NGO Reports, Networks And Discussion Groups
Aid
Workers Network
CBRN
discussion group
Training/Resources
consolidated by Chris Piper, TorqAid (updated 20 Jan
03)
Chemical, Biological
and Radiological Threats, A Guide for Aid Workers
A CD-ROM based tool produced by the International Medical
Corps (IMC) and the UCLA Center for International Emergency
Medicine (CIEM), with support from USAID's Office of U.S.
Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA)
InterAction
CBRNE Working Group
"Hope
for the best, prepare for the worst: how humanitarian organizations
can organize to respond to weapons of mass destruction"
MERLIN/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Report
(10 January 2003)
"Humanitarian
Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction"
An invited review by Charles Kelly
The Humanitarian Times - 20 November 2002
NGOs
in the environment and sustainable development sector
b.
U.S. Government Links
Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
24-Hours Emergency
Response at ATSDR: 1-(404) 498-0120
ATSDR Emergency Response Teams are available 24 hours a
day, and are comprised of toxicologists, physicians, and
other scientists available to assist during an emergency
involving hazardous substances in the environment.
Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
Federal
Emergency Management Agency
Office of Foreign
Disaster Assistance (OFDA)
U.S. Department
of Justice
U.S. Military
Fact Sheets:
Chemical
Agent Fact Sheets
Biological
Agent Fact Sheets
Radiological
Agent Fact Sheets
Maxwell Air
Force Base site listing military
and other resources
"Medical
CBRN Planning & Response"
An analytical model developed by the Department of Defense
(DoD) on the concept of and the procedures for medical CBRN
planning and response which includes the following products:
CBRN Defense operational concept; Medical CBRN planning
procedures and factors; Medical CBRN response operational
"rules of thumb"; Medical CBRN operational template
c.
International Organization Links
The
Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) Project Prevention
and Disposal of Obsolete Pesticides
The
International Atomic Energy Agency
The
Joint United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)/Office
for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Environment
Unit
The
Office for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Implementation
of Article X of the Chemical Weapons Convention: Assistance
and Protection Against Chemical Weapons
The
UNEP Post Conflict Unit
"UNEP's
Post-Conflict Assessment Units Initiates Study of Environment
in Iraq"
The
World Health Organization (WHO)
Guidance on
Public Health response to biological and chemical weapons
(2nd edition, 2001), which is currently in revision.
d.
Books and Articles
Five
Minutes After Midnight in Bhopal
By DOMINIQUE LAPIERRE and JAVIER MORO
New York: Warner Books, 2002. 403 pages, $25.95
Book review by: David Vinjamuri
Lessons
from Iran on facing chemical war
By Scott Peterson
Christian Science Monitor - 19 November 2002
Lessons
of Iraq's Mass Murder
By Christine Gosden and Mike Amitay
Washington Post - 2 June 2002, page B07
e.
Emergency Preparedness Sites
Caribbean
Disaster Mitigation Project
Disaster
and Emergency Management
Disaster
Preparedness and Response
Texas
Department of Public Safety Division of Emergency Management
f.
Public Sector Links
Bechtel
CHEMTREC
Emergency
Response to Chem-Bio Terrorist Incidents
International
Council of Chemical Associations
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