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These articles and reports are selected from the wide range of information resources concerning emergency management in Canada and internationally.

• Lessons learned
  A variety of reports describing lessons learned in previous disaster events
• Research reports
  Research and development reports through work supported by PSEPC and other organizations

Lessons learned

The following reports describe lessons learned in previous disaster events and are of particular interest to emergency planning and management personnel.

• Looking Back, Moving Forward. A Multi-Agency Debrief - Lessons Identified and Progress Since the Terrorist Events of 7 July 2005 (519 kb)
  September 2006
  London Regional Resilience Forum
  
• UK Foot and Mouth Disease Crisis: Impact on Critical Infrastructure
  May 2006
  Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada
  
• The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned
  February 2006
  The White House
  
• Bayes, Bugs, and Bioterrorists - Lessons Learned from the Anthrax Attacks (1.40 MB)
  April 2005
  Centre for Technology and National Security Policy
  
• Indian Ocean Tsunami December 26, 2004
  February 2005
  Disaster Research Centre
  
• Report by the Nicolet Commission January 1998 Ice Storm 
  November 2004
  Sécurité publique Québec
  
• Hurricane Juan September 28 and 29 2003
  August 2004
  Environment Canada
  
• National Commission on Terror Attacks Upon the United States - Final Report
  August 2004
  
• Information, Technology, and Coordination: Lessons from the World Trade Center Response
  June 2004
  Centre for Technology in Government
  
• Final Report on the August 14, 2003 Blackout in the United States and Canada: Causes and Recommendations
  April 2004
  U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force
  
• BC 2003 Firestorm Report
  February 2004
  British Columbia Provincial Review
  
• September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks: Critical Infrastructure Lessons Learned September 2002
  Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada
  
• Oklahoma City - Seven Years Later: Lessons for Other Communities
  April 2002
  National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
  
• Oklahoma City bombing
  Various reports and articles
  National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
  
• Ice Storm '98, ICLR Research Paper Series - No. 1 (295 KB)
  December 1998
  Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction
  
• Red River flooding
  Various reports, 1997-1998
  International Joint Commission (Canada & United States)
  

Research reports

The following reports are prepared as a result of research and development work supported by Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada in a variety of subject areas:

• Critical infrastructure protection and technology development
• Disaster mitigation
• Emergency response
• Natural hazards
• Planning and preparedness

Research carried out by other individuals and institutions has also been compiled here for ease of reference:

• A Networked Approach to Improvements in Emergency Management (1.87 Mb)
  August 2006
  International City/County Management Association (ICMA)
• CSIS publications
  Various reports
  Canadian Security Intelligence Service

• Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection Policy Research Series
  Various reports, 2006
  Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies at Carleton University

• Horizontality and Canada's Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness: A Case Study
  October 2005
  Marina Rountree

• Canadian Radiation Alert/Expert System for Critical Infrastructure Monitoring
  November 2005
  Health Canada

• Ports: A Component of Canada’s Critical Infrastructure (92 KB)
  Spring 2003
  Michael C. Ircha

• The Vulnerability of Mobile Telecommunications to Natural Hazards
  March 2001
  A. Moore, K. Hancock, R. Stacey, P. Stacey

Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in these reports are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada.