Institutional Partnerships in Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems A Compilation of Seven National Good Practices and Guiding Principles /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Golnaraghi, Maryam (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Meteorology.; Natural disasters.; Atmospheric sciences.; Earth Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Natural Hazards.

This book documents seven examples of Early Warning Systems for hydrometeorological and other hazards that have proven effective in reducing losses due to these hazards. The cases studied encompass a variety of climatic regimes and stages of economic development, raging across the industrialized cou...

Table of Contents:

• Building a Global Knowledge Base of Lessons Learned from Good Practices in Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems
• The Tropical Cyclone Early Warning System of Cuba
• The Bangladesh Cyclone Preparedness Program
• The French Vigilance System
• The Warning Management of the Deutscher Wetterdienst
• Multi-hazard Early Warning System of the United States National Weather Service
• The Shanghai Mult-hazard Early Warning System
• Multi-hazard Early Warning System in Japan
• Synthesis of Seven Good Practices in Mult-hazard Early Warning Systems.