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Glossaries

Glossaries available for consultation at the Library on Disaster Reduction

Internationally agreed glossary of basic terms related to disaster management. IDNDR. 1992

Multi-language Glossary on Natural Disasters. Japan National Committee for IDNDR, December, 1996

The Controlled Vocabulary on Disasters (CRID)
Glossaire Multi-language sur les Désastres Naturels. version française.IDNDR.1994.
World of Natural Hazards. Munich Re. CD-ROM including a glossary of important geoscientific and insurance terminology. 2000.
Dictionary of Global Climate Change. Compiled by W. John Maunder under the auspices of the Stockholm Environment Institute.1992.
Components of Risk: A Comparative Glossary. by Katharina Thywissen. United Nations University - Institute of Environment and Human Security.

Online glossaries
A Glossary of agriculture, environment, and sustainable development
R. Scott Frey. (Kansas State). This glossary contains general definitions of over 500 terms related to agricultural production, the environment, and sustainable development. Terms were chosen to increase awareness of major issues for the nonspecialist and were drawn from various social and natural science disciplines, including ecology, biology, epidemiology, chemistry, sociology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and public health.
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/MISC2/SB661.PDF
   
Carpenter Reinsurance Intermediary
http://www.guycarp.com/glossary_a-f.html
   
Citizens networks for sustainable development. Glossary of terms
www.citnet.org/glossary/
   
Commonwealth of Australia 2003, Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology Climate Glossary
www.bom.gov.au/climate/glossary/
   
Earthquake glossary - see also the Earthquake Image Glossary
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/image_glossary/
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/4kids/eqterms.html
   
ENSO Glossary (NOAA)
www.cdc.noaa.gov/ENSO/enso.glossary.html
   
Environment Canada - Glossary on Freshwater
www.ec.gc.ca/water/en/manage/floodgen/e_gloss.htm
   
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Glossary
www.fao.org/glossary
   
FloodRiskNet
www.floodrisknet.org.uk/
   
Fresh Water Glossary. Environment Canada
www.ec.gc.ca/water/en/info/gloss/e_gloss.htm
   
Glossary of Dam Related Terms
www.streamnet.org/pub-ed/ff/Glossary/glossarydam.html
   
International Glossary of Hydrology. A multilingual glossary of hydrological terms. With a term in one language shown, the links at the left of the page will take you to the translation in that language.
www.cig.ensmp.fr/~hubert/glu/aglo.htm
   
International Glossary of Hydrology = Glossaire International D'Hydrologie
(Wmo/Omm/Vmo, No. 385)
www.aaabooksearch.com/ISBN/9230027456
   
Landslides in British Columbia Glossary
www.em.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geolsurv/Surficial/landslid/lsgloss.htm
   
National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), USA
Glossary of Coral Reef Terminology
www.nodc.noaa.gov/col/projects/coral/coraldata
National Weather Services (NWS) glossary of Hydrologic related terms (USA)
www.crh.noaa.gov/hsd/hydefa-c.html
   
Small Island Developing States - SIDSNET glossary
www.upei.ca/~meincke/glossary.htm
   
Sustainable development glossary
www.iisd.org/glossary.asp
   
Terms of Environment . US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/
   
The National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program - Tsunami Terminology
www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami-hazard/terms.html
   
UNEP- Glossary on environmental terms
www.nyo.unep.org/action/ap1.htm
   
U.S Environmental Protection Agency. Glossary of Climate Change Terms
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf
   
USGS Volcano Hydrology and Hydrologic Processes
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/Hydrology/framework.html
   
USGS - Water Science Glossary of Terms
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/dictionary.html
   

 

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