Early Warning Systems for Natural Disaster Reduction

Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Natural Disasters and Early Warning....Pages 3-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Bringing Early Warning to the People — Public and Partnership Responsibilities for Early Warning....Pages 13-14
Early Warning Systems for the Reduction of Natural Disasters in China....Pages 15-18
The Human Factor in Early Warnings: Risk Perception and Appropriate Communications....Pages 19-26
Scientific Contributions to Effective Early Warning in an Environmental Context....Pages 27-32
Natural Disaster Early Warning: The Role of NGOs....Pages 33-35
Community Mobilisation for Early Warning in the Philippines....Pages 37-47
Disaster Management and Cyclone Warning System in Bangladesh....Pages 49-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Public Communication of Warnings....Pages 67-69
Public Communication of Early Warnings: Role of the Government....Pages 71-72
The Role of the Media in Public Communication of Early Warnings....Pages 73-75
Early Warning: Community Interpretations and Perceptions — A Case of Recurrent Floods and their Warnings in Delhi (India)....Pages 77-80
Disaster Early Warning and Individuals with Special Needs: In Aggregate, the Underserved Represent a Significant Portion of Society....Pages 81-83
Bringing Early Warning to the People: Electronic Technology: The Role of the Internet....Pages 85-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Systems and Problems of Early Warning in Germany....Pages 91-93
Benefits of Early Warning from the Viewpoint of the Insurance Industry....Pages 95-102
Natural Risks in Albania and the Role of Related Warning Systems....Pages 103-105
Interaction and Cooperation Between Russia and NIS in the Area of Preventing Emergency Situations of Technogenic and Natural Character....Pages 107-112
Gender, Age and Social Class in Psychological Work in Disaster Situations....Pages 113-117
Psychological Interventions in Disaster Situations....Pages 119-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
The Role of the WMO World Weather Watch System in Mitigating Hydro-Meteorological Disasters....Pages 127-134
Meteorological and Hydrological Early Warning Systems....Pages 135-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Track Forecast Guidance Improvements for Early Warnings of Tropical Cyclones....Pages 167-183
The Tropical Cyclone Warning System in the Southwest Pacific....Pages 185-189
Early Warning System for Tropical Storms in India....Pages 191-198
Success and Failure of Early Warning Systems: A Case Study of the Gujarat Cyclone of June, 1998....Pages 199-202
From Good TC Track Forecasts Towards Good Early Warning of Intensity Changes....Pages 203-207
Improving the Tropical Cyclone Warning System and its Effective Dissemination in Mauritius....Pages 209-211
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Real-Time Flood Forecasting: Problems, Possibilities and Proposed Solutions....Pages 215-239
Satellite Monitoring of Floods as a Part of the Early Warning System....Pages 241-245
Snowmelt Forecasting as a Contribution to Operational Flood Warning: A System Integrating Remote Sensing Data and Meteorological Model Output....Pages 247-252
Short-Time Flood Forecast Methodology Using a Hydro-Meteorological Risk Concept for Flood Plains....Pages 253-257
Hydro-Meteorological Tools for Flood Protection in River Basins....Pages 259-263
Extreme Runoff Events in Small Catchments — the Need for a Proper Modelling Strategy for Early Warning Systems....Pages 265-269
Using Real Time Data and a Flow Prediction Model to Assist in the Operation of the Orange River....Pages 271-276
GISELE: A New Capability for Flash Flood Early Warnings Over Garonne River Sub-Basins....Pages 277-282
The Passage of the ′97 Flood Wave on the Lower Odra....Pages 283-287
The Oder River Flood in Summer 1997 from Brandenburg’s Point of View....Pages 289-303
Cultural and Political Obstacles to Accepting Early Warnings of the Aral Sea Disaster....Pages 305-310
Early Warning Systems for the Detection and Response to Severe Floods....Pages 311-316
Front Matter....Pages 317-317
Prediction of African Rainfall and Household Food Security....Pages 319-336
Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture: Appropriate Technology and Institutional Development Challenges....Pages 337-344
Early Warning and Geography: Space, Time and User Needs (Examples from Famine Early Warning)....Pages 345-349
Agrometeorological Information System for Mitigation of the Effects of Drought in Hungary....Pages 351-355
Early and Dynamic Warning: An Integrated Approach to Drought Management....Pages 357-363
Front Matter....Pages 365-365
Monitoring and Early Warning Systems Related to the El-Niño Phenomenon — An Overview....Pages 367-368
Towards Operational Prediction of El Niño by a Coupled Ocean — Atmosphere Model....Pages 369-373
Operational Seasonal Predictions in Australia....Pages 375-378
ECMWF Seasonal Forecasting System: Performance and Evaluation....Pages 379-389
Front Matter....Pages 391-391
Services from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute Can Reduce the Effects of Disasters — Both Natural and Man-Made....Pages 393-398
The Early Warning and Forecasting System (EWFS) for the Reduction of Serious Atmosphere-Hydrosphere Disasters....Pages 399-402
Front Matter....Pages 403-403
Early Warning Systems for the Mitigation of Geological Hazards — an Overview....Pages 405-405
Front Matter....Pages 407-407
Earthquake Early Warning Systems: Current Status and Perspectives....Pages 409-423
Earthquake Disasters: Prediction, Prevention and Early Warning....Pages 425-431
Towards an Earthquake Early Warning System for the Megacity of Istanbul....Pages 433-440
The Seismic Alert System in Mexico City and the School Prevention Program....Pages 441-446
Earthquake Early Warning System in Japan....Pages 447-452
UrEDAS: The Early Warning System for Mitigation of Disasters Caused by Earthquakes and Tsunamis....Pages 453-460
On the Establishment of an Automatic Earthquake Information Broadcast System in Taiwan....Pages 461-464
European Warning System....Pages 465-469
Front Matter....Pages 407-407
25 Seconds for Bucharest....Pages 471-477
Early Warning Success for the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake: A Best Practice Integrating Public Administration and Science....Pages 479-480
Predictions and Social Response Capacities in Face of the 1995 Menglian Earthquake (M = 7.3): An Overview....Pages 481-486
Project of Creation of an Earthquake Early Warning System for Armenia....Pages 487-494
Can Plate Motion Surveys by GPS Measurements be Considered as an Alert System in Earthquake Occurrence?....Pages 495-502
Front Matter....Pages 503-503
Volcano Monitoring and Eruption Warnings....Pages 505-510
Geochemical Monitoring on Merapi Volcano, Indonesia....Pages 511-514
Remote Sensing of Subglacial Eruptions in Iceland and the Development of Related Warning Systems....Pages 515-520
Information and Warnings to Authorities and to the Public About Seismic and Volcanic Hazards in Iceland....Pages 521-526
The Merapi-Project — Interdisciplinary Monitoring of a High-Risk Volcano as a Basis for an Early Warning System....Pages 527-532
Front Matter....Pages 533-533
Early Warning Systems for Tsunami — an Overview....Pages 535-536
Tsunami Warning System in Japan....Pages 537-541
Advances in the Chilean Tsunami Warning System and Application of the TIME Project to the Chilean Coast....Pages 543-547
A Tsunami Warning System in the SW Aegean Sea, Greece....Pages 549-552
Front Matter....Pages 553-553
Early Warning Systems Related to Mountain Hazards....Pages 555-564
Movement Studies to Forecast the Time of Breaking off of Ice and Rock Masses....Pages 565-568
Avalanche Warning Switzerland 2000....Pages 569-577
Monitoring the Conditions of Dangerous Lakes in Uzbekistan and Contiguous Territories....Pages 579-581
Front Matter....Pages 583-583
The Contribution of the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) for Early Warning and Management of Wildfires....Pages 585-592
Application of Logistic Models to Predict Human-Caused Forest Fires in Siberia....Pages 593-599
Front Matter....Pages 583-583
The Use of Microsatellites in the Fight Against Pest Plagues....Pages 601-607
ECPC’s Global to Regional Fire Weather Forecast System....Pages 609-613
Overview of Lightning Detectors: Their Role in Risk Management of the Lightning Hazard....Pages 615-617
Meteorology and Desert Locust: Experience and Implementation of a Monitoring System....Pages 619-623
Early Warning Systems for Asteroid Impacts....Pages 625-632
Space-Borne Autonomous On-Board Recognition of High Temperature Events....Pages 633-639
Dedicated Earth Monitoring and Disaster Warning Applications by Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN)....Pages 641-643
The Finnish Forest Fire Index Calculation System....Pages 645-647
Satellite Based Forest Fire Detection and Automatic Alert System — Pilot Experiment....Pages 649-653
Front Matter....Pages 655-655
Technological Hazards....Pages 657-673
Early Warning Systems for Mitigation of Earthquake-Related Technological Risks....Pages 675-691
A New Concept for the Earthquake Vulnerability Estimation and its Application to the Early Warning System....Pages 693-699
Real-Time City Gas Network Damage Estimation System: SIGNAL....Pages 701-707
GPS Monitoring of Structures: Recent Advances....Pages 709-714
The Earthquake Early Warning System of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant....Pages 715-717
Concept for Seismic Alarm and Monitoring of Soviet-Designed Nuclear Power Plants....Pages 719-725
Optimizing the Seismic Early Warning System for the Tohoku Shinkansen....Pages 727-734
Front Matter....Pages 735-735
Toward an Integrated Space Strategy for Disaster Management....Pages 737-739
The Satellite Techniques in Early Warning Systems for Large Towns and Megacities....Pages 741-744
Monitoring Fires with European Remote Sensing Satellite, ERS-2: The “Rush ATSR Fire Product” Demonstration....Pages 745-751
Front Matter....Pages 735-735
Remote Sensing and GIS for Warning of Geological Hazards: Application in Vietnam....Pages 753-762
The SAF Concept: European Networked Approach for Organising the Generation of Products Based on Satellite Data....Pages 763-767
Use of Advanced Earth Observation Capabilities for Disaster Management — The Example of the Oder Flood 1997....Pages 769-780
The Use of NOAA/AVHRR Data for Flood Disaster Monitoring in the Mekong River Delta....Pages 781-787
Front Matter....Pages 789-789
An Early Warning System for Use in Developing Countries and Small Island States....Pages 791-795
Small Island States and Early Warning Systems....Pages 797-800
Tropical Cyclone Warnings and the Factors that Influence Response: The Trinidad and Tobago Experience....Pages 801-805
Special Problems Faced by Sri Lanka as a Small Island State with Regard to Early Warning Systems for Cyclonic Storms....Pages 807-810
Transferring Flood Warning Technology to Vulnerable Communities in Jamaica....Pages 811-813
Front Matter....Pages 815-815
Technical Requirements for Early Warning Systems....Pages 817-821
Back Matter....Pages 823-834