1. NCAR in the Sun: Islands, Disasters, and Deaths. Ilan Kelman http://www.ilankelman.org

2. A Few Years!  To build and maintain safer and healthier communities.  Research and advocacy to reduce disasters (event or condition) and vulnerability. Disaster risk reduction as part of sustainability.

3. Islands http://www.islandvulnerability.org  Theories of islandness and vulnerability.  Traditional island knowledge for disasters.  Island disaster diplomacy.

4. Disaster Diplomacy http://www.disasterdiplomacy.org  How and why disaster-related activities do and do not induce cooperation amongst enemies.  Hypothesis: -Catalysis, not creation. -Short-term, but not long-term.

5. Disaster Diplomacy  Hurricane Katrina.  Disease and health diplomacy.  Island disaster paradiplomacy.  Post-tsunami Aceh vs Sri Lanka.

6. Disaster Deaths Standard Approaches:  Top-down: sustainability and development  Bottom-up: epidemiology and statistics Need to connect the two.

7. Implementation  USA flash floods.  Tsunami and gender. World Press Photo of the Year, 2004 © Arko Datta Photo deleted