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Early Warning
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
Brazil wants Japanese assistance in disaster prevention
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...
Extracts of progress reports by progress indicator on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
- Indicator 2.3 [PDF, 118Kb]Early warning systems are in place for all major hazards, with outreach to communities
- Indicator 4.2 [PDF, 102Kb]Social development policies and plans are being implemented to reduce the vulnerability of populations most at risk
- Second WMO international conference on Indian ocean tropical cyclones and climate change14-17 Feb 2012, India (New Delhi)
- Japan-UNESCO/UNU symposium on the great East Japan tsunami on 11 March 2011 and tsunami warning systems: policy perspectives16-17 Feb 2012, Japan (Tokyo)
- Second national flood workshop27 Feb - 01 Mar 2012, United States of America (Houston)
- Alpine Naturgefahren / Wildbach- und LawinenverbauungBOKU, Vienna
- Master of Science degree course in applied earth sciences with specialization in natural hazards and disaster risk managementIntl Inst for Geo-info Science and Earth Observation, Netherlands (Enschede)
- Masters - Disaster preparedness, mitigation and managementAIT, Thailand (Pathumthani, Bangkok)
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
- Haiti, 2 ans après2012, CRF
- ARkStorm scenario2011, USGS, United States of America - gov
- BBC interviews Margareta Wahlström on disaster reduction2011, BBC
- ProgrammerThailand (Pathumthani), RIMES
- Food security, early warning, early response (EWER) manager / IMPROVE projectSouth Sudan (Bor, Jonglei State), CRS
External Online Resources
- AccuWeather.com
- Aviation-weather disaster risk reduction
- Disaster risk reduction (DRR) project portal for Asia and the Pacific
- FAO and emergencies, from prevention to building back better
- FAO: Climate and flood forecast applications in agriculture
- Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS)
- Humanitarian Early Warning Service - global multi-hazard watch service to support humanitarian preparedness
- Humanitarian early warning system (HEWS): HEWSweb
- iDisaster 2.0: social media and emergency management
- IRI: Climate risk knowledge for water
- JMA: What is an earthquake early warning?
- Locust watch
- MeteoAlarm: extreme weather alert service for Europe
- Platform for the Promotion of Early Warning (PPEW)
- Regional climate outlooks
- SATCA: Early warning system for Central America
- Selemat Project
- SWIdget
- Typhoon Committee Disaster Information System (TCDIS)
- UNESCO/IOC global tsunami website
- Water management in Taiwan
- Weatherathome
- WMO: severe weather information centre
- WMO: severe weather information centre: gale
- WMO: severe weather information centre: heavy rain/snow
- World AgroMeteorological Information Service
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