Disaster Management: Reports
Severe Space Weather Events:Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts: A Workshop Report
"The adverse effects of extreme space weather on modern technology--power grid outages, high-frequency communication blackouts, spacecraft anomalies--are well known and well documented, and the physical processes underlying space weather are generally well understood. Less well documented and understood, however, are the potential economic and societal impacts of the disruption of critical technological systems by severe space weather. As a first step toward determining the socioeconomic impacts of extreme space weather events and addressing the questions of space weather risk assessment and management, a public workshop was held in May 2008."
Disease Outbreak Alerts from Space
This Science@NASA article describes how, using satellite images, scientists are moving toward a system to help prevent or curb the severity of disease outbreaks around the world.