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This book is based on interviews conducted by research teams in March and April 2005 with hundreds of tsunami survivors, government officials, human rights activists, and aid workers in five tsunami-affected countries-India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the

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This report is the product of close cooperation between UNEP and national environmental authorities and experts. It provides a preliminary ground-level look at the tsunami’s impact on various sectors of the region’s environment. It highlights problems in need of immediate attention, underscoring the strong link between environment and sustainable livelihood and the need for improved early warning and disaster preparedness systems.
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This booklet is a glossary of terms and acronyms used in the tsunami literature. It describes the tsunami characteristics, general terms used in tsunami mitigation and generation as well as the terms in tsunami survey and measurement.
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This book focusses on the impacts of the tsunamis of Sunday 26 December 2004 on the natural coastal resources, especially the coral reefs and associated ecosystems, and the responses by the international community.

The book also presents a long history

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The primary aim of the TEC is to improve the quality of humanitarian action - including the linkages to longer term recovery and development - by learning lessons from the international response to the tsunami. To optimise this learning, TEC member

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The Sixteenth International Tsunami Symposium, TSUNAMI ’93, drew more than 150 scientists, engineers and specialists in tsunami research and disaster mitigation from 13 countries. The leading contributions to the symposium, selected after a rigorous

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Tsunamis remain an ever-present threat to lives and property along the coasts of most of the world’s oceans. This volume, comprising papers presented at the 17th International Tsunami Symposium, highlights critical advances in key areas of tsunami hazard

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The first edition of Tsunami!, published in 1988, provided readers with a complete examination of the tsunami phenomenon in Hawai’i.

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