The set of capacities needed to generate and disseminate timely and meaningful warning information to enable individuals, communities and organizations threatened by a hazard to prepare and to act appropriately and in sufficient time to reduce the possibility of harm or loss
6 Feb 2012, UNOOSA
UN-SPIDER reports that Brazil wants Japan's assistance to set up a National System for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters. The Brazilian government is developing and providing the use of satellite images to predict possible storms and atmospheric phenomena...
Disaster preparedness planning toolkit2010, Y CARE
Women leadership in disaster risk management2011, NIRAPAD; Oxfam Intl
Cultivating a state of readiness: our response to April 27, 20112012, TRAC, United States of America - gov
Second world landslide forum: putting science into practice - abstract book2011, ISPRA, Italy - gov; ICL; IPL; UNISDR
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