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Early Warning Systems for Natural Disaster Reduction

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Jochen Zschau

    1. GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Potsdam, Germany

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  2. Andreas Küppers

    1. GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Potsdam, Germany

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Table of contents (110 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Natural Disasters and Early Warning

      • Eugen Seibold
      Pages 3-10

  3. Bringing Early Warning to the People

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Bringing Early Warning to the People — Public and Partnership Responsibilities for Early Warning

      • Terry Jeggle
      Pages 13-14

    3. Early Warning Systems for the Reduction of Natural Disasters in China

      • Zhen-Yao Wang, Yuan-Chang Zheng, Ji-Xun Li
      Pages 15-18

    4. The Human Factor in Early Warnings: Risk Perception and Appropriate Communications

      • John Twigg
      Pages 19-26

    5. Scientific Contributions to Effective Early Warning in an Environmental Context

      • Alexander L. Alusa
      Pages 27-32

    6. Natural Disaster Early Warning: The Role of NGOs

      • Monica Omulo
      Pages 33-35

    7. Community Mobilisation for Early Warning in the Philippines

      • Zenaida G. Delica
      Pages 37-47

    8. Disaster Management and Cyclone Warning System in Bangladesh

      • Monowar Hossain Akhand
      Pages 49-64

  5. Aspects of Disaster Management, Emergency and Social Response with Respect to Early Warnings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Systems and Problems of Early Warning in Germany

      • Horst Schöttler
      Pages 91-93
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This volume is the result of the International IDNDR-Conference on Early Warning Systems for the Reduction of Natural Disasters, held at the Geo­ ForschungsZentrum in Potsdam, Germany from 7-11 September 1998. En­ dorsed by the United Nations International Decade for Natural Disasters Reduc­ tion which had been established by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1989, it was jointly organised by the GeoForschungsZentrum Pots­ dam and the German IDNDR-Committee. The event brought together 370 scientists, public officials, and representatives of the United Nations system, non-governmental and international organisations and diverse professional, commercial, and civic individuals from 86 countries. Together they comprised a wide and multidisciplinary range of experience, as both providers and users of early warning and preparedness information related to natural disasters. The Potsdam Early Warning Conference represented the first major thematic com­ ponent of IDNDR's concluding evaluation. It provides recommendations to en­ sure disaster reduction into the 21st Century. The conference dealt with an essential goal of the decade, expressed as a ma­ jor priority of the Decade's Scientific and Technical Committee. It was included in the Plan of Action adopted at the 1994 World Conference on Natural Disas­ ter Reduction in Yokohama, Japan, and was the subject of three subsequent UN General Assembly resolutions on the improved effectiveness of early warning between 1994 and 1997. The German Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr.

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  • GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Potsdam, Germany

    Jochen Zschau, Andreas Küppers

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