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California Disaster Relief: Support National VOAD Members

Aidmatrix is working with the California Office of Emergency Services on relief efforts for the wildfire victims. The State requests donations be made through the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (National VOAD).

http://www.responsenet.org/show.detail.asp?id=4336

(Added: Tue Nov 13 2007   Modified: Fri Nov 16 2007   Hits: 32)

Chinese biofuel 'will not stress water resources'

Article that refutes claims made by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Sri Lanka that the production of biofuels will have an adverse effect on water resources. It makes particular reference to China (SciDev.Net, 11 October 2007).

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/Chinese%20biofuel.doc

(Added: Tue Oct 16 2007   Hits: 118)

Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC)

The daily to periodically updated national to global products of the GFMC are generated by a worldwide network of numerous institutions and individuals. The information and data are systematically collected, interpreted and displayed/archived on the internet. The products include: Early warning of fire danger; Near-real time monitoring of fire events; Interpretation and synthesis of fire information; Archive of global fire information; Facilitation of links between national and international institutions involved in fire research, development and policy development; Support of local, national and international entities to develop long-term strategies or policies for wildland fire management; Emergency hotline and liaison capabilities (restricted) for providing assistance for rapid assessment and decision support in response to wildland fire emergencies in conjunction with UN-OCHA.

http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/

(Added: Fri Aug 16 2002   Modified: Wed Oct 25 2006   Hits: 230)

Indonesia's Fires and Haze: The Cost of Catastrophe (

From September to November of 1997, raging fires in Indonesia pumped enough smoke into the air to blanket the entire region in haze, reaching as far north as southern Thailand and the Philippines, with Malaysia and Singapore being particularly affected. An area the size of Costa Rica was completely devastated. The lives and health of 70 million people were jeopardized and species already endangered, such as orangutans, rhinos, and tigers, were pushed closer to extinction. The fires - deliberately set for the most part - were certainly one of the century's worst environmental disasters. This book conservatively assesses the damage at US $4.5 billion, more than the Exxon Valdez oil spill and India's Bhopal chemical spill combined. It looks at the causes of the fires, the physical damages that resulted, and their effects on health, industrial production, and tourism, among others. It recommends measures that must be taken to prevent a recurrence of this horrific event. (David Glover and Timothy Jessup, 2006 update)

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-9410-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

(Added: Wed Oct 25 2006   Hits: 67)

The International Fire Information Network

FireNet is a Special Interest Network (a SIN). It is an on-line information service for everyone interested in rural and landscape fires, and is available via the Internet. The information concerns all aspects of fire science and management - including fire behaviour, fire weather, fire prevention, mitigation and suppression, plant and animal responses to fire and all aspects of fire effects. It should be of interest to professional rural and forest fire managers, educators and trainers, researchers and students working in all aspects of fire, volunteer fire fighters and organisations, and all rural people concerned with fire on the land.

http://www.csu.edu.au/firenet/

(Added: Tue Feb 19 2002   Modified: Wed Oct 25 2006   Hits: 164)