Telecommunications

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1244, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 363-396

  Jacob, Klaus ^a   Maxemchuk, Nicholas ^a   Deodatis, George ^a   Morla, Aurelie ^a   Schlossberg, Ellen ^a   Paung, Imin ^a   Lopeman, Madeleine ^a   Horton, Radley ^c   Bader, Daniel ^c   Leichenko, Robin ^b   Vancura, Peter ^b   Klein, Yehuda ^d  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b Department of Geography   (United States)

^c Earth Institute   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HAZARD; INTERNET; POWER SUPPLY; PRODUCTIVITY; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEPHONE; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855298447     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06331.x     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Belinfante, A. 2009. " Telephone Subscribership in the United States (Data through March 2009)." Report for the Industry Analysis and Technology Division, Wireline Competition
2. Bureau, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), August. http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-292759A1.pdf.
3. Bennett, J. 2002. State of the U.S. Telecommunication Networks and Root Cause Analysis: 2001 Annual Report. ATIS Report, May.
4. Cauley, L. 2008. " Consumers ditching land-line phones." USA Today, May 14. http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/telecom/2008-05-13-landlines_N.htm
5. Changnon, S.A. 2003. " Characteristics of ice storms in the United States." Journal of Applied Meteorology 42:630-639.
6. Changnon, S.A. and T.R. Karl. 2003. " Temporal and spatial variations of freezing rain in the contiguous United States 1948-2000." Journal of Applied Meteorology 42:1302-1315.
7. Congress of the United States Congressional Budget Office (CBO). 2007. Potential Cost Savings from the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program. http://cbo.gov/ftpdocs/86xx/doc8653/09-28-Disaster.pdf.
8. DeGaetano, A.T. 2000. " Climatic Perspective and Impacts of the 1998 Northern New York and New England Ice Storm." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 81(2): 237-254.
9. DSL Reports. DSL-ready map. http://www.dslreports.com/comap/st/NY/. The Economist. 2008, May 22. " Buy our stuff, save the planet." http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11412495
10. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). 2002.
11. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). 2008.
12. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). 2003. Ice Storm Disaster Aid Tops $25 Million [Press release]. Retrieved from http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=3947
13. Fox, S. 2005. Digital Divisions. Washington, DC: Pew Internet & American Life Project.
14. Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. 2009. Edited by T.R. Karl, J.M. Melillo and T.C. Peterson. U.S. Global Change Research Program. http://downloads.globalchange.gov/usimpacts/pdfs/climate-impacts-report.pdf
15. Gross, D.L. 2003. " Assessing Local Government Capacity for Ecologically Sound Management of Flowing Water in the Landscapes of the Great Lakes Basin." Unpublished M.S. thesis, Cornell University, Department of Natural Resources.
16. Hansell, S. 2009. " Will the Phone Industry Need a Bailout, Too?" New York Times, May 8. Accessed May 20, 2009. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/will-the-phone-industry-need-a-bailout-too/.
17. Horrigan, J. 2009. The Mobile Difference. Washington, DC: Pew Internet & American Life Project.
18. Horrigan, J. 2007. Why it will Be Hard to Close the Broadband Divide. Washington, DC: Pew Internet & American Life Project.
19. Horrigan, J. 2008. Home Broadband Adoption. Washington, DC: Pew Internet & American Life Project.
20. Johnson, K. 2009. " For Rural Elderly, Times are Distinctly Harder." New York Times. December 10.
21. Jones, K.F. 1996. " Ice accretion in freezing rain." U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. Rep. 96-2.
22. Jones, K.F. and N.D. Mulherin. 1998. " An evaluation of the severity of the January 1998 ice storm in northern New England." U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory report.
23. Karl, T.R., J.M. Melillo, and T.C. Peterson (eds.). 2009. Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. Cambridge University Press.
24. Light, J. 2001. " Rethinking the digital divide." Harvard Educational Review 71(4):709-735.
25. MacLean. 2008. " ICTs, Adaptation to Climate Change, and Sustainable Development at the Edges." An International Institute for Sustainable Development Commentary.
26. Manuta, L. 2009. " New FCC Telephone Penetration Statistics Reveal Problems in New York." The Public Utility Law Project of New York (PULP) Network blog, August 14. http://pulpnetwork.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-fcc-telephone-penetration.html.
27. McKenna, C. 2009. " New York Statewide Wireless Interoperable Communications Network Refocused on Regional Systems." Government Technology. http://www.govtech.com/gt/635218?id=635218&full=1&story_pg=1.
28. Multihazard Mitigation Council (MMC). 2005. " Natural Hazard Mitigation Saves: An Independent Study to Assess the Future Savings from Mitigation Activities." National Institute of Building Sciences. http://www.nibs.org/index.php/mmc/projects/nhms and http://www.nibs.org/client/assets/files/mmc/Part1_final.pdf.
29. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS). 2008. " The Historical 11-12 December 2008 Ice Storm." http://cstar.cestm.albany.edu/PostMortems/CSTARPostMortems/2008/12dec2008icestorm/dec2008icestorm.htm.
30. New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYC EDC), New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (NYC DoITT), New York City Department of Small Business Services (NYC DSBS). 2005. Telecommunications and Economic Development in New York City: A Plan for Action. A Report to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. March.
31. New York City Partnership (NYCP). 1990. " The $1-Trillion Gamble: Telecommunications and New York's Economic Future." A Report by the New York City Partnership in Collaboration with Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc., June.
32. New York State Council for Universal Broadband. 2009b. Broadband Map, Albany County http://www.nysbroadband.ny.gov/maps/counties/albany.htm.
33. New York State Geographic Information Systems (NYS GIS). 2009. Clearinghouse. http://www.nysgis.state.ny.us/coordinationprogram/reports/presentations/gisconf09/2009_State_of_State_FINAL.
34. New York State Office for Technology (NYS OFT). 2008. " Going from Good to Great." http://www.oft.state.ny.us/News/FinalNYS2008GoalsandStrategies.pdf.
35. New York State Office for Technology (NYS OFT). 2009a. " Connecting New York to the World for Sustainable Adoption: New York State Universal Broadband Strategic Roadmap." New York State Council for Universal Broadband, June. http://www.nysbroadband.ny.gov/assets/documents/Final_Broadband_Strategy_June2009.pdf.
36. New York State Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination. 2009. " 2009 State of the State in GIS." http://www.nysgis.state.ny.us/coordinationprogram/reports/presentations/gisconf09/2009_State_of_State_FINAL.pdf
37. New York State Public Service Commission (NYS PSC). 2002. " Network Reliability After 9/11" A Staff White Paper on Local Telephone Exchange Network Reliability. NYS DPS Office of Communications. November 2.
38. New York State Public Service Commission (NYS PSC). 2003. " Case 03-C-0922: Network Reliability Proceeding." http://www.dps.state.ny.us/03C0922.html.
39. New York State Public Service Commission (NYS PSC). 2004. " Initial Report on the August 14, 2003 Blackout." February. http://www3.dps.state.ny.us/pscweb/WebFileRoom.nsf/Web/5FA2EC9B01FE415885256E69004D4C9E/$File/doc14463.pdf?OpenElement
40. New York State Public Service Commission (NYS PSC). 2005. " Second Report on the August 14, 2003 Blackout." October. http://www3.dps.state.ny.us/pscweb/WebFileRoom.nsf/Web/DA5944111F5033A4852570B4005E778A/$File/FinalSecondBlackoutRpt-4-03-06-errata.pdf?OpenElement
41. New York State Public Service Commission (NYS PSC). 2006. Mission Statement. http://www.dps.state.ny.us/mission.html.
42. New York State Public Service Commission (NYS PSC). 2007. " October 2006 Western New York Major Snowstorm: A Report on Utility Performance" May. http://www3.dps.state.ny.us/pscweb/WebFileRoom.nsf/Web/2D5910CDFE0696CA852572DD005F9D80/$File/WesternNewYorkOctober2006SnowstormFinalReport.pdf.
43. New York State Public Service Commission (NYS PSC). 2009a. " October and December 2008 Winter Storms. A Report on Utility Performance," June. http://documents.dps.state.ny.us/public/MatterManagement/CaseMaster.aspx?MatterSeq=30915.
44. New York State Public Service Commission (NYS PSC). 2009b. Case 09-M-0527. http://documents.dps.state.ny.us/public/MatterManagement/CaseMaster.aspx?MatterSeq=31654.
45. Quarantelli, E.L. 2007. " Problematical Aspects of the Computer Based Information/ Communication Revolution with Respect to Disaster Planning and Crisis Managing." Working Paper 358, University of Delaware Disaster Research Center. Accessed May 29, 2009. http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/19716/3055/1/PP%20358.pdf.
46. Sullivan, B. 2006. " Why cell phone outage reports are secret." MSNBC The Red Tape Chronicles, December 15. http://redtape.msnbc.com/2006/12/why_cell_phone_.html.
47. United States Government Accounting Office (US GAO). 2007. Natural Hazard Mitigation August. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07403.pdf.
48. Untied States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). 1998. " Ice storms in New England and New York."
49. Victory, N. 2006. " Report and Recommendations of the Independent Panel Reviewi ng the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Communications Networks." Memo to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), June 12. http://www.fcc.gov/pshs/docs/advisory/hkip/karrp.pdf.