Disasters and Disaster Reduction

A

Accidents

Aviation Accidents

Nuclear Accidents

Road Accidents

Tanker Accidents

Traffic Accidents

African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development

ASEAN Expert Group on Disaster Management

ASEAN Regional Forum

Asian Development Bank

Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre, Bangkok

Asian Disaster Reduction Centre, Kobe

B

Benfield Greig Hazard Research Centre, London

Biological Disasters

General

Viral disease

Water-related diseases

C

Caribbean Development Bank

Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency

Central European Disaster Prevention Forum

Centre for the Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Climate Change and Disasters

Commission for the Geological Map of the World (CGMW)

Committee on Earth Observation Satellites

Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

Council of Europe - EUR-OPA Major Hazards Agreement

Cranfield Disaster Management Centre

Cyclones

D

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)

Deutsches Komitee für Katastrophenvorsorge (German Committee for Disaster Reduction) DKKV

Disaster

General

• Brauch, Hans Günter; Liotta, P.H.; Marquina, Antonio; Rogers, Paul, Selim, Mohammad El-Sayed (Eds.): Security and Environment in the Mediterranean - Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflict, Hexagon Series No.1; Collection STRADEMED No. 16 (Berlin - Heidelberg - New York: Springer Verlag, 2003), ISBN: 3-540-40107-5, hgb027.

Risk Reduction

Disaster Management Facility (DMF) of the World Bank

Disease

Drought

Drought Monitoring Centre (DMC) in Harare and Nairobi

E

Early Warning

Concepts

Systems

Earthquake

Human causes

Ecosystem

El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

Environment Management

Environmental Degradation

Environmental Impact Assessment

Environmental Scarcity

Environmental Stress

Epidemics

European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO)

European Environment Agency

F

Flood

Flash

G

Geographic Information System (GIS)

Geophysical Disasters

H

Hazards

Biological

Human

Hydrometeorological

Natural

Technological

Terrorist

Human Disasters

Hurricane

Hydro-meteorological Disasters

I

Impact of Disasters on Countries

Impact of Disasters on Regions

Africa

North Africa

• Brauch, Hans Günter; Liotta, P.H.; Marquina, Antonio; Rogers, Paul, Selim, Mohammad El-Sayed (Eds.): Security and Environment in the Mediterranean - Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflict, Hexagon Series No.1; Collection STRADEMED No. 16 (Berlin - Heidelberg - New York: Springer Verlag, 2003), ISBN: 3-540-40107-5, hgb027.

America

North

Caribbean

Central

South

Asia

Central Asia

Eastern Asia

South Asia

South-eastern Asia

Western Asia

• Brauch, Hans Günter; Liotta, P.H.; Marquina, Antonio; Rogers, Paul, Selim, Mohammad El-Sayed (Eds.): Security and Environment in the Mediterranean - Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflict, Hexagon Series No.1; Collection STRADEMED No. 16 (Berlin - Heidelberg - New York: Springer Verlag, 2003), ISBN: 3-540-40107-5, hgb027.

Australia

Europe

Central

Eastern

East Central

Northern

Southern

• Brauch, Hans Günter; Liotta, P.H.; Marquina, Antonio; Rogers, Paul, Selim, Mohammad El-Sayed (Eds.): Security and Environment in the Mediterranean - Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflict, Hexagon Series No.1; Collection STRADEMED No. 16 (Berlin - Heidelberg - New York: Springer Verlag, 2003), ISBN: 3-540-40107-5, hgb027.

  Southeastern

• Brauch, Hans Günter; Liotta, P.H.; Marquina, Antonio; Rogers, Paul, Selim, Mohammad El-Sayed (Eds.): Security and Environment in the Mediterranean - Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflict, Hexagon Series No.1; Collection STRADEMED No. 16 (Berlin - Heidelberg - New York: Springer Verlag, 2003), ISBN: 3-540-40107-5, hgb027.

Mediterranean

• Brauch, Hans Günter; Liotta, P.H.; Marquina, Antonio; Rogers, Paul, Selim, Mohammad El-Sayed (Eds.): Security and Environment in the Mediterranean - Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflict, Hexagon Series No.1; Collection STRADEMED No. 16 (Berlin - Heidelberg - New York: Springer Verlag, 2003), ISBN: 3-540-40107-5, hgb027.

Institutions

IDNDR, International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction

ISDR, International Strategy for Natural Disaster Reduction

UNDP, United Nations Development Programme

UNEP, United Nations Environment Programme

World Bank, Disaster Management Facility

Insurance

Inter-American Committee for Natural Disaster Reduction

International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC)

International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction

International Federation for the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC-RCS)

J

Joint Research Centre, DG Research

K

L

Land use Planning

M

Mitigation

General

Climate Change

Disaster

Munich Reinsurance

N

National Emergency Management Association (NEMA)

O

Organization for American States

P

ProVention Consortium

Q

R

Research

Engineering

Natural Sciences

Social Sciences

Relief

Resilience

Response

Risk

Assessment/Analysis

Awareness

Management

Reduction

Seismic

S

Storm

Winter storms

T

Terrorism

Tornadoes

Tsunamis

Typhoon

U

United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

United States Geological Survey

V

Volcanoes

Eruptions

Volcanic Eruptions, General

Volcanic Eruptions, El Chicon

Volcanic Eruptions, Etna

Volcanic Eruptions, Krakatau

Volcanic Eruptions, Mt. Pinatubo

Volcanic Eruptions, Stramboli

Volcanic Eruptions, Tambora

Vulnerability

Environmental

Societal

W

World Meteorological Organization

World Organization of Volcano Observatories

X

Y

Z

Zentrum für Naturrisiken und Entwicklung (ZENEB), Germany (Centre for Natural Hazards and Development)