11/06/13

Improving early warning of disasters

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Advances in forecasting and technology promise more effective early warning systems for natural hazards. What stands between disaster alert and action, and how can the impact of early warning tools be enhanced?

Early warning of disasters: Facts and figures

Editorials

Using disaster warning tools to their best potential

Stronger links between scientific tools and the environment in which they operate can improve the effectiveness of early warning.

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Opinion

Why disaster warning and development go hand in hand

To engage people in early action we must understand their experience, behaviour and constraints, says disaster policy expert Andrew ...

15/11/12

Opinion

Understanding uncertainty to prevent humanitarian crises

Dialogue enables scientists and communities to work with uncertain information, say humanitarian policy experts Emma Visman and colleagues.

15/11/12

Opinion

How Cuba turns early warning into joined-up action

Cuba's early warning approach holds lessons for other countries, write disaster risk reduction specialists Veronica F. Grasso and José ...

15/11/12

Snakes and folk tales meet science in disaster warning