Earthquake and atmospheric hazards : preparedness studies.

"Reprinted from Natural hazards, Volume 16, Nos. 2 & 3, 1997"

Includes bibliographical references

Complexity theory of natural disasters: boundaries of self-structured domains -- March 1990 hailstorm damage in Sydney, Australia -- A test of the cyclicity of earthquakes -- Climate change, extreme events and the Canadian insurance industry -- Problems for probabilistic seismic hazard analysis -- Atmospheric hazards preparedness in Bangladesh: a study of warning, adjustments and recovery from the April 1991 cyclone -- Estimation of response spectra in the severely damaged area during the 1995 Hyogo-Ken Nambu earthquake -- Federal legislation for disaster mitigation: a comparative assessment between Canada and the United States -- Arias intensity assessment of liquefaction test sites on the east-side of San Francisco Bay affected by the Loma Prieta, California, earthquake of 17 October 1989 -- The behaviour of a man-made island during the Great Hanshin earthquake, Japan -- Mexico, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Kobe: what next? -- Meeting report: Hazards-96: concluding plenary session and discussion