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Early warning

An integrated system of hazard monitoring, forecasting and prediction, disaster risk assessment, communication and preparedness activities systems and processes that enables individuals, communities, governments, businesses and others to take timely action to reduce disaster risks in advance of hazardous events.

Latest Early warning additions in the Knowledge Base

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Brasil: Agência japonesa apresenta plano para amenizar problemas com chuvas no Rio Itajaí-Açu

A Agência de Cooperação Internacional do Japão apresentou um plano que prevê medidas com o objetivo de que a população da Bacia Hidrográfica do Rio Itajaí-Açunão sofra mais com a instabilidade do clima e com suas consequencias, como o desastre ambiental de novembro de 2008...
Jornal de Santa Catarina
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Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 mid-term review

This report presents the findings of the Mid-Term Review of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) aimed at critically analyzing the extent to which HFA implementation has progressed and at helping countries and their institutional partners identify

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India: Managing floods through proactive governance

India is pioneering efforts to incorporate disaster management in development planning says N Vinod Chandra Menon, a former member of the Indian government’s National Disaster, in an editorial calling for increased community-level information exchange, capacity development, risk assessment and early warning...
Himal Southasian, Southasia Trust, the
Photo by Flickr user, Lacajablanca, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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Iran: Urban awareness programmes to reduce the impacts of natural hazards

'Iran is prone to more than 75 percent of natural disasters, including flood and earthquake' said Abolhassan Faqih, head of Iran’s Red Crescent Society in a report by the Iran Daily, emphasizing the need for urban awareness programmes to reduce the impact of disasters, reports the Iran Daily, No. 3906...
Iran Daily - Iran Newspaper
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India: Climate conversations - women take on drought and pests with virtual science academy

By working with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics using the latest information technology, women from the Adarsha Mahila Samaikhya organization knew when the dry spell was going to hit and had set up a contingency plan for their villages, reports AlertNet...
Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org
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NYT: A postcard to the Pacific Northwest - 'prepare'

The potent earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan constitute a warning for the Pacific Northwest says Yumei Wang in the Dot Earth blog by Andrew Revkin for the New York Times...
New York Times, the
by Flickr user martinluff / Martin Luff, CC BY-SA 2.0, http://www.flickr.com/photos/23934380@N06/5470256572/
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New Zealand: 'Familiar enemy' - a post-earthquake call to rethink State policies

Even though New Zealand has not only the most stringent building regulations, but also advanced scientific tools to predict natural disasters, 'sometimes even the most prescient technology is unable to forestall natural disasters' reports the Telegraph, urging a rethinking of national policies...
Telegraph, the - ABP Pvt. Limited - India
by Flickr user geoftheref / Geof Wilson, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoftheref/5469935501/
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Early-warning sensors in focus after New Zealand quake

According to IDG News Service, authorities from Asia to California are working on computerized systems to warn people of large earthquakes, which are in focus again after the deadly temblor in New Zealand. None of the warning systems have faced the real thing yet, though...
CXO Media Inc., IDG Enterprise
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