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Volcano Hazards Program Homepage for USGS Volcano Hazards Program with feature stories, and links to worldwide volcano updates, volcanic hazards, reducing volcanic risk, USGS international programs, and resources such as educators page, videos, and online reports. (Score: 3.000)

Hazards Links to USGS activities in the natural hazards theme area, such as floods, fires, volcanoes, earthquakes. Also links to USGS factsheets on hazards. (Score: 1.380)

Fire fuel mapping - satellite mapping of vegetation parameters for national fire fuels assessment Overview of program to improve vegetation mapping techniques and the development of large-area vegetation datasets for fire fuels estimates to support firefighting preparedness, to reduce hazards, and to assess fire effects on ecoystems. (Score: 0.690)

U.S. Geological Survey Public Private Partnership 2000 (PPP 2000) Information on cooperative endeavor of the nineteen Federal agencies composing the Subcommittee on Natural Disaster Reduction;the Institute for Business and Home Safety; and other private sector organizations. (Score: 0.690)

Wildland fire research Thematic descriptions of research to meet the varied needs of the fire management community and to understand the role of fire in the landscape including fire management support, studies of postfire effects, and fire history and ecology. (Score: 0.690)

Alaska Volcano Observatory Homepage for Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) with offices in Anchorage and Fairbanks monitors and studies Alaskas hazardous volcanoes. Links to featured news, updates, publications and products, and a volcano atlas for Alaska. (Score: 0.647)

Cascades Volcano Observatory Portal to information provided by the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, WA with links to reports and activity in the Cascade Range and other volcanoes and multiple links to general information on volcanology, reports, research, and maps. (Score: 0.496)

Ecological risk assessment of toxic substances in the South Florida ecosystem: wildlife effects and exposure assessment Project summaries and publications on wildlife contaminant exposures and prediction and monitoring of future restoration-driven exposures within the South Florida ecosystems. (Score: 0.413)

Executive summary, workshop: seismic and tsunami hazard in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Summary of workshop with links to reports that are recommendations for future projects. (Score: 0.355)

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Definition: The identification of risk, the measurement of risk, and the process of prioritizing risks.