Early Warning Systems for Natural Disaster Reduction

Natural Disasters and Early Warning.- Bringing Early Warning to the People.- Bringing Early Warning to the People - Public and Partnership Responsibilities for Early Warning.- Early Warning Systems for the Reduction of Natural Disasters in China.- The Human Factor in Early Warnings: Risk Perception and Appropriate Communications.- Scientific Contributions to Effective Early Warning in an Environmental Context.- Natural Disaster Early Warning: The Role of NGOs.- Community Mobilisation for Early Warning in the Philippines.- Disaster Management and Cyclone Warning System in Bangladesh.- Early Warning and Public Communication.- Public Communication of Warnings.- Public Communication of Early Warnings: Role of the Government.- The Role of the Media in Public Communication of Early Warnings.- Early Warning: Community Interpretations and Perceptions - A Case of Recurrent Floods and their Warnings in Delhi (India).- Disaster Early Warning and Individuals with Special Needs: In Aggregate, the Underserved Represent a Significant Portion of Society.- Bringing Early Warning to the People: Electronic Technology: The Role of the Internet.- Aspects of Disaster Management, Emergency and Social Response with Respect to Early Warnings.- Systems and Problems of Early Warning in Germany.- Benefits of Early Warning from the Viewpoint of the Insurance Industry.- Natural Risks in Albania and the Role of Related Warning Systems.- Interaction and Cooperation Between Russia and NIS in the Area of Preventing Emergency Situations of Technogenic and Natural Character.- Gender, Age and Social Class in Psychological Work in Disaster Situations.- Psychological Interventions in Disaster Situations.- Early Warning Systems for Hydrometeorological Hazards.- The Role of the WMO World Weather Watch System in Mitigating Hydro-Meteorological Disasters.- Meteorological and Hydrological Early Warning Systems.- Early Warning Systems for Tropical Storms.- Track Forecast Guidance Improvements for Early Warnings of Tropical Cyclones.- The Tropical Cyclone Warning System in the Southwest Pacific.- Early Warning System for Tropical Storms in India.- Success and Failure of Early Warning Systems: A Case Study of the Gujarat Cyclone of June, 1998.- From Good TC Track Forecasts Towards Good Early Warning of Intensity Changes.- Improving the Tropical Cyclone Warning System and its Effective Dissemination in Mauritius.- Early Warning Systems for Floods.- Real-Time Flood Forecasting: Problems, Possibilities and Proposed Solutions.- Satellite Monitoring of Floods as a Part of the Early Warning System.- Snowmelt Forecasting as a Contribution to Operational Flood Warning: A System Integrating Remote Sensing Data and Meteorological Model Output.- Short-Time Flood Forecast Methodology Using a Hydro-Meteorological Risk Concept for Flood Plains.- Hydro-Meteorological Tools for Flood Protection in River Basins.- Extreme Runoff Events in Small Catchments - the Need for a Proper Modelling Strategy for Early Warning Systems.- Using Real Time Data and a Flow Prediction Model to Assist in the Operation of the Orange River.- GISELE: A New Capability for Flash Flood Early Warnings Over Garonne River Sub-Basins.- The Passage of the ?97 Flood Wave on the Lower Odra.- The Oder River Flood in Summer 1997 from Brandenburg's Point of View.- Cultural and Political Obstacles to Accepting Early Warnings of the Aral Sea Disaster.- Early Warning Systems for the Detection and Response to Severe Floods.- Early Warning Systems Related to Drought and Mitigation of Famine.- Prediction of African Rainfall and Household Food Security.- Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture: Appropriate Technology and Institutional Development Challenges.- Early Warning and Geography: Space, Time and User Needs (Examples from Famine Early Warning).- Agrometeorological Information System for Mitigation of the Effects of Drought in Hungary.- Early and Dynamic Warning: An Integrated Approach to Drought Management.- Monitoring and Early Warnings Related to the El Niño Phenomenon.- Monitoring and Early Warning Systems Related to the El-Niño Phenomenon - An Overview.- Towards Operational Prediction of El Niño by a Coupled Ocean - Atmosphere Model.- Operational Seasonal Predictions in Australia.- ECMWF Seasonal Forecasting System: Performance and Evaluation.- Early Warning Systems for Severe Weather Phenomena in mid and High Latitudes.- Services from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute Can Reduce the Effects of Disasters - Both Natural and Man-Made.- The Early Warning and Forecasting System (EWFS) for the Reduction of Serious Atmosphere-Hydrosphere Disasters.- Early Warning Systems for the Mitigation of Geological Hazards.- Early Warning Systems for the Mitigation of Geological Hazards - an Overview.- Early Warning Systems for Earthquakes.- Earthquake Early Warning Systems: Current Status and Perspectives.- Earthquake Disasters: Prediction, Prevention and Early Warning.- Towards an Earthquake Early Warning System for the Megacity of Istanbul.- The Seismic Alert System in Mexico City and the School Prevention Program.- Earthquake Early Warning System in Japan.- UrEDAS: The Early Warning System for Mitigation of Disasters Caused by Earthquakes and Tsunamis.- On the Establishment of an Automatic Earthquake Information Broadcast System in Taiwan.- European Warning System.- 25 Seconds for Bucharest.- Early Warning Success for the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake: A Best Practice Integrating Public Administration and Science.- Predictions and Social Response Capacities in Face of the 1995 Menglian Earthquake (M = 7.3): An Overview.- Project of Creation of an Earthquake Early Warning System for Armenia.- Can Plate Motion Surveys by GPS Measurements be Considered as an Alert System in Earthquake Occurrence?.- Early Warning Systems for Volcano Monitoring and Eruption Warnings.- Volcano Monitoring and Eruption Warnings.- Geochemical Monitoring on Merapi Volcano, Indonesia.- Remote Sensing of Subglacial Eruptions in Iceland and the Development of Related Warning Systems.- Information and Warnings to Authorities and to the Public About Seismic and Volcanic Hazards in Iceland.- The Merapi-Project - Interdisciplinary Monitoring of a High-Risk Volcano as a Basis for an Early Warning System.- Early Warning Systems for Tsunami.- Early Warning Systems for Tsunami - an Overview.- Tsunami Warning System in Japan.- Advances in the Chilean Tsunami Warning System and Application of the TIME Project to the Chilean Coast.- A Tsunami Warning System in the SW Aegean Sea, Greece.- Early Warning Systems for Mountain Hazards.- Early Warning Systems Related to Mountain Hazards.- Movement Studies to Forecast the Time of Breaking off of Ice and Rock Masses.- Avalanche Warning Switzerland 2000.- Monitoring the Conditions of Dangerous Lakes in Uzbekistan and Contiguous Territories.- Early Warning Systems for Fire and Other Environmental Hazards.- The Contribution of the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) for Early Warning and Management of Wildfires.- Application of Logistic Models to Predict Human-Caused Forest Fires in Siberia.- The Use of Microsatellites in the Fight Against Pest Plagues.- ECPC's Global to Regional Fire Weather Forecast System.- Overview of Lightning Detectors: Their Role in Risk Management of the Lightning Hazard.- Meteorology and Desert Locust: Experience and Implementation of a Monitoring System.- Early Warning Systems for Asteroid Impacts.- Space-Borne Autonomous On-Board Recognition of High Temperature Events.- Dedicated Earth Monitoring and Disaster Warning Applications by Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN).- The Finnish Forest Fire Index Calculation System.- Satellite Based Forest Fire Detection and Automatic Alert System - Pilot Experiment.- Early Warning Systems for Rapid Damage Assessment and the Mitigation of Technological Hazards.- Technological Hazards.- Early Warning Systems for Mitigation of Earthquake-Related Technological Risks.- A New Concept for the Earthquake Vulnerability Estimation and its Application to the Early Warning System.- Real-Time City Gas Network Damage Estimation System: SIGNAL.- GPS Monitoring of Structures: Recent Advances.- The Earthquake Early Warning System of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant.- Concept for Seismic Alarm and Monitoring of Soviet-Designed Nuclear Power Plants.- Optimizing the Seismic Early Warning System for the Tohoku Shinkansen.- The Role of Satellite Techniques in Early Warning Systems: State-of-the-art and Perspectives.- Toward an Integrated Space Strategy for Disaster Management.- The Satellite Techniques in Early Warning Systems for Large Towns and Megacities.- Monitoring Fires with European Remote Sensing Satellite, ERS-2: The "Rush ATSR Fire Product" Demonstration.- Remote Sensing and GIS for Warning of Geological Hazards: Application in Vietnam.- The SAF Concept: European Networked Approach for Organising the Generation of Products Based on Satellite Data.- Use of Advanced Earth Observation Capabilities for Disaster Management - The Example of the Oder Flood 1997.- The Use of NOAA/AVHRR Data for Flood Disaster Monitoring in the Mekong River Delta.- Special Problems of Early Warning Systems for Developing Countries and Small Island States.- An Early Warning System for Use in Developing Countries and Small Island States.- Small Island States and Early Warning Systems.- Tropical Cyclone Warnings and the Factors that Influence Response: The Trinidad and Tobago Experience.- Special Problems Faced by Sri Lanka as a Small Island State with Regard to Early Warning Systems for Cyclonic Storms.- Transferring Flood Warning Technology to Vulnerable Communities in Jamaica.- Future Technology Needs, Accessibility and Affordability of Early Warning Systems.- Technical Requirements for Early Warning Systems.