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Germany
Central Europe flooding leaves dozen dead or missing
3 Jun 2013, Vatican Radio
Following a heavy rainfall Central and Eastern Europe has been struggling with flooding. Particularly Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic were severely hit, while Hungary is preparing for more inundiations to come, reports Vatican Radio. The Czech government had invested in an anti-flooding system following the 2002 floods...
National Platform
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German Committee for Disaster Reduction (DKKV) - Website:http://www.dkkv.org
- Contact:CEO
- Phone:+49 228 619-1942 +49-1629097040
- HFA Focal Point:
German Committee for Disaster Reduction (DKKV) - Website:http://www.dkkv.org
- Contact:CEO
- Phone:+49 228 619-1942 +49-1629097040
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Top 5 Natural Disaster reported
| Disaster | Date | Affected | (no. of people) |
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| Flood | 2002 | 330,108 |  |
| Flood | 1993 | 100,000 | |
| Flood | 1999 | 100,000 | |
| Storm | 1995 | 30,000 | |
| Flood | 1997 | 5,200 | |
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Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database Data version: v11.08 *: Including tsunami Data displayed does not imply national endorsement. |
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- United Nations/Germany UN-SPIDER Bonn expert meeting on the use of space-based information for early warning systems25-26 Jun 2013, Germany (Bonn)
- Training school on field research methods in environmentally-induced migration08-12 Jul 2013, Germany (Bonn)
- Hamburg conference: Actions for climate-induced migration16-18 Jul 2013, Germany (Hamburg)
- Master of disaster management and risk governanceUni Bonn, Germany (Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler)
- Erasmus Mundus MSc in flood risk managementUPC; TU Dresden; UNESCO-IHE; Univ of Ljubljana, Delft , Dresden, Barcelona and Ljubljana
- Public health and disastersHeidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany (Heidelberg)
Flood disaster risk management - hydrological forecasts: requirements and best practices - training module2013, GIZ, Germany - gov; NIDM, India - gov
White Risk2006, Suva; SLF, Switzerland - gov
- Budget and finance officer, P4 (5 months temporary contract)Switzerland (Geneva), UNISDR
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