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Climate Alarm: Disasters increase as climate change bites

Climatic disasters are increasing as temperatures climb and rainfall intensifies. A rise in small- and medium-scale disasters is a particularly worrying trend. Yet even extreme weather need not bring disasters; it is poverty and powerlessness that make people vulnerable. (Oxfam, November 2007 )

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/climate_change/downloads/bp108_weather_alert.pdf

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DisasterInfo

DisasterInfo is the front page to a collection of mirror sites and/or direct access to web sites of many disaster organizations, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean. All web sites are hosted in their original language.

http://www.disaster-info.net/

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Disasters in Asia and the Pacific: an Overview

Informative article with statistics and tables on hazards and disasters in the Asia Pacific region.

http://www.adpc.net/infores/adpc-documents/Disastersinasia.pdf

(Added: Mon Jun 24 2002   Modified: Wed Dec 14 2005   Hits: 616)

Duryog Nivaran

Duryog Nivaran net is a network of individuals and organizations working in South Asia who are committed to promoting the alternative perspectives on disaster and vulnerability as a basis for disaster mitigation in the region.

http://www.duryognivaran.org/

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ECHOES: A Monthly Posting of the Community of Disaster Practitioners in South-East Asia

ECHOES is produced by the Partnerships for Disaster Reduction-Southeast Asia (PDR-SEA 2) Project of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) in cooperation with the community of disaster practitioners and partners in the region.

http://www.adpc.net/pdr-sea/mp/echoes.html

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ECOSOC: Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations

Draft resolution submitted by the Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council, Mr. Valery P. Kuchinsky (Ukraine), on the basis of informal consultations. Date: 16 Jul 2003.

http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/UNID/5F13A63011E3A064C1256D6A0026B5D7

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EM-DAT : the OFDA/CRED International Disasters Data Base

Since 1988 the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has been maintaining an Emergency Events Database - EM-DAT. EM-DAT was created with the initial support of the WHO and the Belgian Government. The main objective of the database is to serve the purposes of humanitarian action at national and international levels. It is an initiative aimed to rationalise decision making for disaster preparedness, as well as providing an objective base for vulnerability assessment and priority setting. For example, it allows on to decide whether floods in a given country are more significant in terms of its human impact than earthquakes or whether a country is more vulnerable than another for computing resources is. EMDAT contains essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 12,800 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to present. The database is compiled from various sources, including UN agencies, non-governmental organisations, insurance companies, research institutes and press agencies.

http://www.em-dat.net/

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Emergency Management Australia

EMA's primary responsibility for the protection of life and property in Australia as a consequence of natural, technological and human caused disasters rests with state and territory governments.

http://www.ema.gov.au/

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Epidemiology of Disasters

by Thomas Songer from University of Pittsburgh. Provides an introduction to disasters and our understanding of disasters from an epidemiologic perspective

http://www.pitt.edu/~epi2170/lecture15/index.htm

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EU told to prepare for flood of climate change migrants

According to the EU's two senior foreign policy officials, Europe needs to brace itself for a new wave of migration with a very different cause - global warming. The ravages already being inflicted on parts of the developing world by climate change are engendering a new type of refugee, the "environmental migrant" (The Guardian, 10 March 2008).

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/EU%20told%20to%20prepare%20for%20flood%20of%20climate%20change%20migrants.doc

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Extreme Events: Developing a Research Agenda for the 21st Century

Integrated Summary of a workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation (US). The overarching objective of the workshop was to reconsider research on phenomena traditionally defined disparately as "natural hazards," "surprises," and "low probability" in terms of a more unified perspective, focused on society's needs for useful information from scientific research.

http://www.esig.ucar.edu/extremes/summ.html

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Global Disaster Information Network (GDIN)

The GDIN is an independent network with the aim of facilitating the flow of timely disaster information

http://www.gdin.org/

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Global Disaster Watch

Global Disaster Watch provides information on current worldwide natural disasters. This includes warnings and updates for: drought, earthquakes, flooding, hurricanes, landslides, meteor showers, severe weather warnings, solar flares, tsunamis / tidal waves, volcanoes, wildfires, plus disaster archives and record-breaking disasters.

http://home.att.net/~thehessians/disasterwatch.html

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Global MapAid

Global MapAid, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organisation, was formed with the aim of supplying specialist maps to humanitarian decision makers at all levels, predominantly in slow onset disasters such as famine, but also when necessary in rapid onset disasters such as a flood. GMA is intent upon supporting aid efforts by assisting in the provision of mapping and corresponding communication systems for humanitarian organisations. Maps will be detailed of nature and will include population, food security, AIDS, refugee and famine data.

http://www.globalmapaid.rdvp.org/

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Hazards and Risk Virtual Library

Information resource on hazards, risk and disasters

http://www.unex.es/eweb/vl/

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Health Library for Disasters (HeLiD)

"The library was developed as a result of a consultation and exchange process between the emergency and disaster programs of World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), with the participation of all WHO technical departments as well as other UN agencies, such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR); ICRC; the SPHERE Project; non-governmental organizations such as OXFAM; and national organizations, such as the National Emergency Commission of Costa Rica, and WHO collaborating centers such as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC-Atlanta), the Center for Research in the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED-Bruxelles) and academic institutions like Tulane University." - From the Certi Program

http://www.helid.desastres.net

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HUMAN ACTIONS WORSEN NATURAL DISASTERS

More people worldwide are now displaced by natural disasters than by conflict. In the 1990s, natural catastrophes like hurricanes, floods, and fires affected more than two billion people and caused in excess of $608 billion in economic losses worldwide - a loss greater than during the previous four decades combined. But more and more of the devastation wrought by such natural disasters is "unnatural" in origin, caused by ecologically destructive practices and an increasing number of people living in harm's way, finds a new study by the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington D.C. - based environmental research organization. News Release Tuesday, 18 October 2001.

http://www.worldwatch.org/alerts/011018.html

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Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP)

The Humanitarian Accountability Partnership is the humanitarian sector's first international self-regulatory body. Its work is based on the findings of the Humanitarian Accountability Project, an inter-agency action research initiative that started in 2001. The vision of HAP International is of a humanitarian system championing the rights and the dignity of disaster survivors.

http://www.hapinternational.org

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Humanitarian Action Report 2005 [PDF]

The generosity and solidarity expressed for the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami has been extraordinary. People of all nations and from all walks of life have opened their hearts and given support and assistance as we have never seen before. UNICEF's annual Humanitarian Action Report highlights the urgent needs of 33 other countries. The Report describes the situation of children and women in each of the countries and regions, key actions and achievements during the previous year, and planned humanitarian action during 2005, including the funds required, to safeguard and protect the rights of children and women. The response to the tsunami crisis is a clear statement of what humanity can achieve when the world comes together. We are appealing to the same generosity for 33 countries included in the Humanitarian Action Report.

http://www.unicef.org/emerg/index_HAR.html

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Humanitarian Appeal 2008

The 2008 Humanitarian Appeal seeks 3.8 billion dollars to help 25 million people in 24 countries. Over the past 16 years, the United Nations, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, non-governmental organizations, donors, inter-governmental organizations and Member States have worked in partnership through the Consolidated Appeals Process to save lives and provide timely protection, assistance and hope to people in need.

http://ochaonline.un.org/humanitarianappeal/index.htm

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Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters (HFA)

The World Conference on Disaster Reduction was held from 18 to 22 January 2005 in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, and adopted the present Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters. The Conference provided a unique opportunity to promote a strategic and systematic approach to reducing vulnerabilities and risks to hazards. It underscored the need for, and identified ways of, building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters.

http://www.unisdr.org/eng/hfa/hfa.htm

(Added: Thu Jan 19 2006   Hits: 385)

IFRC World Disasters Report 2005

The report calls on agencies to focus less on gathering information for their own needs and more on exchanging information with the people they seek to support. The World Disasters Report 2005 features: Data or dialogue? The role of information in disasters. Hurricane early warning in the Caribbean. Locusts in West Africa: early warning, late response. Information black hole in Aceh. Sharing information for tsunami recovery in South Asia. Humanitarian media coverage in the digital age. Radio in Afghanistan: challenging perceptions, changing behaviour. Disaster data: key databases, trends and statistics. Plus: photos, tables, maps, graphics, Red Cross Red Crescent contacts and index.

http://www.ifrc.org/publicat/wdr2005/index.asp

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International Disaster Situation Reports

Up-to-date reports on current worldwide disaster events provided by the Centre for International Disaster Information

http://www.cidi.org/disaster/

(Added: Mon Aug 13 2001   Modified: Wed Jun 01 2005   Hits: 541)

Management of Natural and Environmental Disasters in Small Island Developing States

UN report aimed at reducing the impact of natural and environmental disasters on the populations and the economies of small island developing States

http://islands.unep.ch/d96-20a1.htm

(Added: Thu Aug 02 2001   Modified: Wed Jun 01 2005   Hits: 501)

Media and Natural Disasters

Global Issues, by Anup Shah, October 23, 2005. The second half of 2005 alone seems to have witnessed a number of natural disasters, such as earthquakes, ferocious hurricanes, mudslides, floods, droughts, forest fires, failing crops, and more. Yet, we have had intense media coverage of some of these, but weaker or almost no reporting of others. Why is that? While there are legitimate and practical constraints at times, when news outlets broadcast or print their "world news" segments, it seems the global stories selected are often based on local drivers rather than a drive for truly global coverage.

http://www.globalissues.org/envissues/disasters/media.asp

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