GAR 2013 Main Report

Acknowledgements

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ter and UNDP (Nathalie Zaarour, Lama Tabbara, Bilal El-Ghali);

Mali: Protection Civil du Mali (Mama-

dou Traore, Diawoye Konte, Aboudra Koungoulba, Savane Foulematou SY);

Mexico: La Red de Estu-

dios Sociales en Prevención de Desastres LA RED (Elizabeth Mansilla);

Mozambique: Instituto Nacio-

nal de Gesto de Calamidades -INGC and UNDP (Dulce Chilundo, Eunice Mucache, Antonio Queface); Nepal: National Society for Earthquake Technology –NSET (Amod Dixit, Gopi Bashal);

Nicaragua: Siste-

ma Nacional para la Prevención, Mitigación y Atención de Desastres SINAPRED (Ana Isabel Izaguirre, Mercedes Martínez, Gisela Guevara, Carlos Olivares, Noé Ubau, Ernesto González);

Orissa: State Disaster

Management Authority (Kalika Mohapatra, Ambika Prasad);

Pacific Islands: SPC/SOPAC (Jutta May, Ni-

cole Daniels, Litea Biukoto);

Panamá: Sistema Na-

cional de Protección Civil – SINAPROC (Eric Reyes, Kenat Saarim Camao Guerra);

Perú: Centro de Es-

tudios de Prevención de Desastres PREDES (José Sato Onuma, Alfonso Diaz Calero, Julio Meneses Bautista, Yeselín Díaz Toribio, Ingrid Azaa Saldaa); Sri Lanka: Ministry of Disaster Managemen ( Dinesh Rajapaksha);

Syrian Arab Republic: Ministry of Lo-

cal Administration (Kinda Muhana, Claude Amer); Timor Leste National Disaster Operation Centre – NDOC, Ministry of Social Solidarity (Lourenco Cosme Xavier, Maarten Visser);

Uganda: Office of

the Prime Minister, Department of Disaster Preparedness and Management (Samuel Akera, Charles Odok); Uruguay: Sistema Nacional de Emergencias de la Presidencia de la República – SINAE (Virginia Fernandez, Sabrina Pose, Soledad Camacho, Ana Maria Games, Pablo Capurro);

Venezuela: Dirección

Nacional de Protección Civil y Administración de Desastres – DNPCAD (Jairo Sanchez, José Scire); Vietnam: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and UNDP (Ian Wilderspin, Miguel Coulier, Oanh Luong Nhu, Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy);

Yemen:

Ministry of Environment (Majed Alrefai).

The updating and compilation of disaster loss data was coordinated in Latin America by Raul Salazar and Ricardo Mena (UNISDR LAC) in close collaboration with Mauricio Bautista, Jhon Henry Caicedo,

Maria Isabel Cardona, Natalia Diaz, Nayibe Jimenez, Cristina Rosales, Alexander Torres and Andres Velasquez (Corporacion OSSO, Colombia); in Asia and Africa by Julio Serje (UNISDR) in collaboration with Luna Abu-Swaireh (UNISDR Arab States) and Rhea Katsanakis (UNISDR Africa); in Asia Sanny Jegillos and Rajesh Sharma (UNDP, Regional Centre Bangkok) and in the Pacific Jutta May and Nicole Daniels (SPC/SOPAC).

Peer reviewers

Scientific peer review of the global hazard models were coordinated by WMO (drought, flood and tropical cyclone, led by Maryam Golnaraghi) and UNESCO (earthquake, tsunami and landslides, led by Alexandros Makarigakis and coordinated by Kristine Tovmasyan).

Reviewers: Irasema Alcantara-Ayal (UNAM, Mexico), Zeljiko Arbanas (University of Rijeka, Croatia) Jrn Behrens (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany), Antnio Cardoso Neto (Agência Nacional de Aguas (ANA), Brazil), Timothy A. Cohn (U.S. Geological Survey), Johannes Cullmann (Federal Institute of Hydrology, Germany), Russel Elesberry (Naval Postgraduate School, USA), Mihail Garevski (Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany (International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Iran), Wolfgang Grabs (WMO), Kazuyoshi Kudo (Nihon University, Japan), Koji Kuroiwa (WMO), Brad Garanganga (SADC, Botswana), Bruce Harper (GHD, Australia), Rami Hofstetter (Seismology Division Geophysical Institute of Israel), Christopher Oludhe (University of Nairobi, Kenya), Kyoji Sassa (University of Kyoto, Japan), Kenji Satake (University of Tokyo, Japan), Yuri Simonov (State Hydrological Institute, Russia), Robert Stefanski (WMO), Alexander Strom (Geodynamics Research Center, Russia), Stefano Tinti (University of Bologna, Italy), Fawu Wang (Graduate School of Shimane University, Japan), Donald A. Wilhite, (University of Nebraska, USA), Liu Zhiyu (Bureau of Hydrology, Ministry of Water Resources of China). Additional reviews of the