Links
to early warning organizations and issues
This list will
be progressively developed by PPEW - if your site is relevant to
early warning of disasters, or if there are corrections,
updates or additions to be made, please email us at isdr@un.org |
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Categories of links |
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UN Agencies
and Organizations |
Division
for Sustainable Development (DSD), Department of Economic
and Social Affairs (UN/DESA) |
UN Department
of Economic and Social Affairs. Wide range of documents sorted
by topic. |
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/index.html |
Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) |
FAO main
site gives access to crop monitoring and food security information
(see GIEWS). |
http://www.fao.org/ |
Global
Environment Facility (GEF) |
Funds projects
and programs that protect the global environment. |
http://www.gefweb.org/ |
Humanitarian Early Warning Service (HEWS) |
A first global one-stop shop for early warning
information for all natural hazards and for socio-political
developments
that provides systematic, credible and real-time early warning.
This web site is an IASC common tool, managed by WFP.
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http://www.hewsweb.org |
Inter-Agency
Secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
(UN/ISDR) |
Main source
for disaster risk reduction information. |
http://www.unisdr.org |
Office
for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA) |
UN coordination
of space activities - space-based observations are important
to monitoring and early warning. |
http://www.oosa.unvienna.org |
Office
for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) |
Disaster
response and relief coordination; includes early warning
activities |
http://ochaonline.un.org/ |
Relief
Web |
Comprehensive
and up to date news on natural disasters. |
http://www.reliefweb.int/ |
Small Island
Developing States Network (SIDS) |
The global
network for small island developing States. |
http://www.sidsnet.org/index.html |
UN System-wide
Earthwatch |
United
Nations System-wide Earthwatch mechanism is a broad UN initiative
to coordinate, harmonize and catalyze environmental observation
activities among UN agencies for integrated assessment purposes. |
http://www.earthwatch.unep.net |
United
Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) |
The Disaster
Management Planning Hyogo Office site provides information
mainly on earthquakes. |
http://www.hyogo.uncrd.or.jp/index.htm |
United
Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) |
Early warning
signs for desertification. |
http://www.unccd.int/ |
United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) |
UNESCO
concerned with disaster prevention and education; also has
divisions on earth sciences and water issues. |
http://www.unesco.org/ |
United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) |
Base for
exploring topics related with UNEP. For early warning matters
see the Division of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA). |
http://www.unep.org/
http://www.unep.org/dewa/index.asp |
United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) |
UNFCCC
web site informs about climate change policy processes. |
http://unfccc.int/ |
United
Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) |
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http://www.unhabitat.org |
United
Nations University/Institute for Environment and Human Security
(UNU-EHS) |
Started
operations in 2004, has initial focus on flood risk. |
http://www.ehs.unu.edu/ |
World Food
Programme (WFP) |
Is concerned
with food security and food aid, has its own early warning
and assessment capacity. |
http://www.wfp.org/ |
World Health
Organization (WHO) |
Early warning
of epidemics and disaster related information on nutrition
and post disaster situation reports. |
http://www.who.int/en/ |
World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) |
Main site
of WMO with links to national weather services, and special
programs, such as Severe Weather Information Center |
http://www.wmo.int |
World Water
Assessment Programme (WWAP) |
Looking
at the complete overview of global water issues. |
http://www.unesco.org/water/wwap/ |
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Other international Organisations |
DIPECHO |
European Commission department concerned with disaster prevention
including early warning. |
http://europa.eu.int/comm/echo/field/dipecho/index_en.htm |
Global Disaster Alert and
Coordination
System (GDACS) |
GDACS provides near real-time alerts about natural disasters
around the world and tools to facilitate response coordination,
including news, maps and V. OSOCC. It is managed by OCHA and
provides near alerts immediately after the occurrence of sudden-onset
disasters and automated impact calculations. GDACS links other
web-based disaster information systems to provide consolidated
disaster information in a one-stop shop. These systems include:
ReliefWeb, Virtual OSOCC, UNOSAT (customised satellite images
on demand), ASGARD (European Commission's tool for automated
impact calculation and alert dissemination), and HEWS
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http://www.gdacs.org |
International Red Cross-Disaster Reduction |
Information on their work, including disaster preparedness
and early warning. |
http://www.ifrc.org/what/disasters/ |
ProVention Consortium |
Information on DRM, links and partners |
http://www.proventionconsortium.org/index.htm |
The Virtual OSOCC |
The Virtual OSOCC is managed by OCHA facilitates decision-making
for international response to major disasters through real-time
information exchange by all actors of the international disaster
response community. There are some 5000 users from over 100
countries and organisations. Personal accounts can be configured
to receive SMS and E-mail notifications in case of urgent situation
developments or new sudden-onset disasters.
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http://ocha.unog.ch/virtualosocc/ |
World Bank, Disaster Management Facility (DMF) |
DMF provides technical support to World Bank operations to
promoted disaster prevention and mitigation as integral parts
of programs. |
http://www.worldbank.org |
World Bank, Hazard Risk Management (HRM) |
Information on HRM, links, and partners. |
http://www.worldbank.org/hazards/index.htm |
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Research Centers |
Benfield Hazard Research Centre |
Focus on natural hazards, source for information and useful
publications. |
http://www.benfieldhrc.org/ |
Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology |
Website informs about the current research projects, wide
link list. |
http://www.cedim.de/ |
Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology
(CEDIM) |
CEDIM informs on various ongoing projects concerning all type
of natural hazards. |
http://www.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/~gd202/
www.cedim/english/seite_13.php |
Centre
for Natural Risks and Development Bayreuth |
An Interdisciplinary Network for Social Science Oriented Disaster
and Risk Research in Developing Countries. The Centre for Natural
Risks and Development Bayreuth, Germany (ZENEB) serves as a social
science oriented research network on risks and disasters in developing
countries. |
http://www.zeneb.uni-bayreuth.de/home.htm |
Disaster Risk Center Newark |
Research on early warning, presenting several projects on early warning. |
http://www.udel.edu/DRC/ |
Experimental Climate Prediction Center (ECPC), USA |
ECPC undertakes
research to identify coupled land-atmosphere-ocean linkages,
to develop routine experimental
forecasts and apply forecast information. |
http://ecpc.ucsd.edu |
Geo Forschungs Zentrum Potsdam (GFZ) |
Section Natural Disaster working mainly on seismologic projects. |
http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/pb2/pb21/index_e.html |
International Institute for Disaster Risk Management |
Early warning and disaster management is one focus of the
IDRM. |
http://www.idrmhome.org/index.html |
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction |
Research on climate prediction and its applications, with
forecasts and information on El Nino. |
http://iri.columbia.edu/ |
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center
University of Colorado |
Information source on natural disaster. Extensive link list. |
http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/ |
USGS Earthquake Hazard Programme |
Information on earthquakes in the US. |
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/index.html |
World Institute for Disaster Risk Management |
Several projects on DRM and prevention. |
http://www.drmonline.net/ |
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Meteorological Services |
See World Meteorological Organization website for links
to all National Met-Services at:
http://www.wmo.ch/web-en/member.html |
African Center of Meteorological Applications for Development
(ACMAD), Niamey, Niger |
ACMAD coordinates the activities of the National Meteorological
and Hydrological Services of 53 African countries. |
http://www.acmad.ne |
Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) |
Information on weather forecast in general and up-dated hazard
maps and links to natural disaster warning provider (world
wide). |
http://www.dwd.de/en/en.htm |
EUMETNET the Network of European National Meteorological Services |
EUMETNET is a network grouping 19 European National Meteorological
Services. |
http://www.eumetnet.eu.org/ |
European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) |
Medium-range weather forecasting for distribution to Member
States; scientific and technical research; meteorological data. |
http://www.ecmwf.int |
Japan Meteorology Agency (JMA) |
JMA issues warnings, advisories and forecasts, provides advice
on issues such as global warming and ozone depletion, and provides
information on earthquake and volcanic activity. |
http://www.kishou.go.jp |
Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) |
MSC monitors water quantities, provides information and conducts
research on climate, atmospheric science, air quality, ice
and other environmental issues. |
http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca |
Naval Atlantic Meteorology and Oceanography Center |
Weather service mainly focused on the Atlantic. |
https://www.nlmoc.navy.mil/home1.html |
World Weather Watch Programme (WWW) |
WWW of WMO combines observing systems, telecommunication facilities,
and data-processing and forecasting centers. |
http://www.wmo.int/web/www/www.html |
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Drought |
Drought Monitoring Centre, Harare (DMC-H) |
The DMC-H monitors drought and other climatic conditions in
the Southern Africa and provides early warnings and advice
to governments and others. |
http://www.dmc.co.zw/ |
Drought Monitoring Centre, Nairobi (DMC-N) |
The DMC-N monitors drought and other climatic conditions in
the Greater Horn of Africa and provides early warnings and
advice to governments and others. |
http://www.dmcn.org/ |
International Drought Information Center (IDIC), University
of Nebraska, USA |
IDIC strives to improve communication about prediction, monitoring,
impact assessment, adjustment and adaptation, and planning
and response to drought. |
http://www.drought.unl.edu/ |
The Reference Centre for Applications of Meteorology and Climate
for Sustainable Development of Africa |
ACMAD provides short average term weather forecasting, climate
outlook, seasonal forecast and its applications. |
http://www.acmad.ne/ |
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Fire |
Global
Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC), Freiburg, Germany |
Global portal to extensive information on wild land fire -
monitoring, current status, regional networks, fire models,
management, training and research. |
http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de |
Global Observations of Forest and
land Cover Dynamics (GOFCGOLD) |
GOFC/GOLD provides a forum for international information exchange,
observation and data coordination, and a framework for establishing
the necessary long-term monitoring systems. Their Fire Mapping
and Monitoring Theme aims to refine and articulate the international
observation requirements and making the best possible use of
fire products from the existing and future satellite observing
systems, for fire management, policy decision-making and global
change research.
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http://gofc-fire.umd.edu/ |
FireNet |
Special interest network and on-line information service for
those concerned with rural and landscape fires. |
http://www.csu.edu.au/firenet/firenet.html |
NOAA National Fire Weather Page |
Information on fire risk areas in the US. |
http://fire.boi.noaa.gov/ |
NOAA Storm
Prediction Center -Fire Weather forecast |
SPC informs on fire risk areas in the US. Extensive link list. |
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/fire_wx/ |
Ukuvuka – Operation
Firestop, South Africa |
Work programme to cut fire losses through better warning and
action, including public awareness campaign. |
http://www.ukuvuka.org.za |
Wildland Fire Assessment System |
WFAS informs on fire risk in the US. |
http://www.fs.fed.us/land/wfas/welcome.htm |
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Tsunami |
International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific (ICG/ITSU) |
News, links and background information on tsunami related issues. |
http://ioc.unesco.org/itsu/ |
International Tsunami Information Center (ITIC) |
Tsunami messages, background information, information on the organisation and extensive library. |
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/itic/more_about/itsu/itsu.html |
Japan Meteorological
Agency |
JMA monitors
earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic activities and issues
information on the monitoring results in order to prevent/mitigate
disasters. |
http://www.jma.go.jp/JMA_HP/jma/jma-eng/activities/seismo.html |
National
Geophysical Data Center |
The
tsunami database provides information on tsunami events from
49 B.C. to the present in the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas,
and the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. |
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/tsu.shtml |
Pacific
Tsunami Museum |
Tsunami
information for the interested public. |
http://www.tsunami.org/ |
Pacific
Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) |
PTWC provides
warnings for tele tsunamis to most countries in the Pacific
Basin as well as to Hawaii and all other US interests in
the Pacific outside of Alaska and the US West Coast. |
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/ |
PMEL
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Tsunami Research Program |
Main
page of PMEL - transferring to projects lead by PMEL. |
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/ |
The
National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Programme |
Extensive
links on tsunami |
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami-hazard/links.html |
Tsunamis
and Earthquakes, Tsunami Research at the USGS |
Background
information on tsunamis, animations, etc. |
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/ |
UNESCO/IOC
Indo tsunami |
Aims to
keep the audience informed about the progress in developing
a Regional Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System for the
Indian Ocean. |
http://ioc.unesco.org/indotsunami/paris_march05.htm |
University
of Southern California, Tsunami Research Group |
TRC
is involved in tsunami research; inundation field surveys,
numerical and analytical modeling, and hazard assessment, mitigation
and planning |
http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/2005/index.html |
University
of Washington |
The
site provides an extensive link list to tsunami related web
sites. |
http://www.ess.washington.edu/tsunami/index.html |
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Tsunami Warning Center |
YSTWC
has responsibility as National Tsunami Warning Center to provide
tsunami warning service for any tsunami impacting Russia national
interests. |
http://www.science.sakhalin.ru/Tsunami/ |
West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center |
Main site of the WCATWC, displaying recent messages and background information on tsunamis. |
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/ |
Western States Seismic Policy Council |
Extensive links on tsunami. |
http://www.wsspc.org/TsunamiCenter/
2004IndianOceanTsunami.html |
World
Tourism Organization (WTO) |
The
Tsunami Disaster Tourism Recovery section of WTO informs
about the recent activities related to the 26 December Tsunami
2004. |
http://www.world-tourism.org/tsunami/eng.html |
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Food Security |
Environmental
Analysis & Remote
Sensing (EARS) |
Drought & desertification,
crop yield forecast. |
http://www.ears.nl/index.htm |
FAMINE Early Warning Systems Network |
Information on drought, flood, cyclone, climate, HIV/AIDS, Vegetation,
Prices Desertification in Africa and Afghanistan. |
http://www.fews.net/networks/ |
Food Assessment by Satellite Technology (FAST) |
Monitoring & Early
Warning. |
http://www.earlywarning.nl/earlywarning/ew_index.htm |
Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems
(FIVIMS) |
Information on Food Security with useful links to databases. |
http://www.fivims.net/publication.jspx?lang=en#mon |
Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) |
FAO programme in support of member states, for food and agriculture. |
http://www.fao.org/giews/english/index.htm |
Global Monitoring for Food Security (GMFS) |
GMFS displays very good links for food security. |
http://www.gmfs.info/ |
Monitoring of Agriculture with Remote Sensing (MARS) |
Food security and crop Monitoring. |
http://mars.jrc.it/ |
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) |
The SADC Regional Early Warning Unit operates as an integrated
project, comprising a Regional Early Warning Unit (REWU), and autonomous
National Early Warning Units in each of the ten original SADC member
states. |
http://www.sadc.int/index.php |
Regional Remote Sensing Unit (RRSU), SADC, Harare, Zimbabwe |
Capacity building and support of national and regional capabilities
in remote sensing and GIS for early warning for food security and
natural resources management. |
http://www.sadc-fanr.org.zw/rrsu/rrsu.htm |
Southern African Development Community (SADC) Regional Remote
Sensing Unit |
Remote Sensing and GIS in support of early warning for food security
and natural resources management. |
http://www.sadc-fanr.org.zw/rrsu/rrsutxt.htm |
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