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Early Warning Systems for Natural Disaster Reduction

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Natural Disasters and Early Warning
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    Chapter 2 Bringing Early Warning to the People — Public and Partnership Responsibilities for Early Warning
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    Chapter 3 Early Warning Systems for the Reduction of Natural Disasters in China
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    Chapter 4 The Human Factor in Early Warnings: Risk Perception and Appropriate Communications
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    Chapter 5 Scientific Contributions to Effective Early Warning in an Environmental Context
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    Chapter 6 Natural Disaster Early Warning: The Role of NGOs
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    Chapter 7 Community Mobilisation for Early Warning in the Philippines
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    Chapter 8 Disaster Management and Cyclone Warning System in Bangladesh
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    Chapter 9 Public Communication of Warnings
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    Chapter 10 Public Communication of Early Warnings: Role of the Government
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    Chapter 11 The Role of the Media in Public Communication of Early Warnings
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    Chapter 12 Early Warning: Community Interpretations and Perceptions — A Case of Recurrent Floods and their Warnings in Delhi (India)
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    Chapter 13 Disaster Early Warning and Individuals with Special Needs: In Aggregate, the Underserved Represent a Significant Portion of Society
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    Chapter 14 Bringing Early Warning to the People: Electronic Technology: The Role of the Internet
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    Chapter 15 Systems and Problems of Early Warning in Germany
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    Chapter 16 Benefits of Early Warning from the Viewpoint of the Insurance Industry
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    Chapter 17 Natural Risks in Albania and the Role of Related Warning Systems
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    Chapter 18 Interaction and Cooperation Between Russia and NIS in the Area of Preventing Emergency Situations of Technogenic and Natural Character
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    Chapter 19 Gender, Age and Social Class in Psychological Work in Disaster Situations
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    Chapter 20 Psychological Interventions in Disaster Situations
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    Chapter 21 The Role of the WMO World Weather Watch System in Mitigating Hydro-Meteorological Disasters
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    Chapter 22 Meteorological and Hydrological Early Warning Systems
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    Chapter 23 Track Forecast Guidance Improvements for Early Warnings of Tropical Cyclones
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    Chapter 24 The Tropical Cyclone Warning System in the Southwest Pacific
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    Chapter 25 Early Warning System for Tropical Storms in India
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    Chapter 26 Success and Failure of Early Warning Systems: A Case Study of the Gujarat Cyclone of June, 1998
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    Chapter 27 From Good TC Track Forecasts Towards Good Early Warning of Intensity Changes
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    Chapter 28 Improving the Tropical Cyclone Warning System and its Effective Dissemination in Mauritius
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    Chapter 29 Real-Time Flood Forecasting: Problems, Possibilities and Proposed Solutions
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    Chapter 30 Satellite Monitoring of Floods as a Part of the Early Warning System
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    Chapter 31 Snowmelt Forecasting as a Contribution to Operational Flood Warning: A System Integrating Remote Sensing Data and Meteorological Model Output
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    Chapter 32 Short-Time Flood Forecast Methodology Using a Hydro-Meteorological Risk Concept for Flood Plains
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    Chapter 33 Hydro-Meteorological Tools for Flood Protection in River Basins
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    Chapter 34 Extreme Runoff Events in Small Catchments — the Need for a Proper Modelling Strategy for Early Warning Systems
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    Chapter 35 Using Real Time Data and a Flow Prediction Model to Assist in the Operation of the Orange River
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    Chapter 36 GISELE: A New Capability for Flash Flood Early Warnings Over Garonne River Sub-Basins
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    Chapter 37 The Passage of the ′97 Flood Wave on the Lower Odra
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    Chapter 38 The Oder River Flood in Summer 1997 from Brandenburg’s Point of View
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    Chapter 39 Cultural and Political Obstacles to Accepting Early Warnings of the Aral Sea Disaster
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    Chapter 40 Early Warning Systems for the Detection and Response to Severe Floods
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    Chapter 41 Prediction of African Rainfall and Household Food Security
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    Chapter 42 Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture: Appropriate Technology and Institutional Development Challenges
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    Chapter 43 Early Warning and Geography: Space, Time and User Needs (Examples from Famine Early Warning)
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    Chapter 44 Agrometeorological Information System for Mitigation of the Effects of Drought in Hungary
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    Chapter 45 Early and Dynamic Warning: An Integrated Approach to Drought Management
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    Chapter 46 Monitoring and Early Warning Systems Related to the El-Niño Phenomenon — An Overview
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    Chapter 47 Towards Operational Prediction of El Niño by a Coupled Ocean — Atmosphere Model
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    Chapter 48 Operational Seasonal Predictions in Australia
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    Chapter 49 ECMWF Seasonal Forecasting System: Performance and Evaluation
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    Chapter 50 Services from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute Can Reduce the Effects of Disasters — Both Natural and Man-Made
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    Chapter 51 The Early Warning and Forecasting System (EWFS) for the Reduction of Serious Atmosphere-Hydrosphere Disasters
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    Chapter 52 Early Warning Systems for the Mitigation of Geological Hazards — an Overview
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    Chapter 53 Earthquake Early Warning Systems: Current Status and Perspectives
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    Chapter 54 Earthquake Disasters: Prediction, Prevention and Early Warning
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    Chapter 55 Towards an Earthquake Early Warning System for the Megacity of Istanbul
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    Chapter 56 The Seismic Alert System in Mexico City and the School Prevention Program
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    Chapter 57 Earthquake Early Warning System in Japan
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    Chapter 58 UrEDAS: The Early Warning System for Mitigation of Disasters Caused by Earthquakes and Tsunamis
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    Chapter 59 On the Establishment of an Automatic Earthquake Information Broadcast System in Taiwan
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    Chapter 60 European Warning System
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    Chapter 61 25 Seconds for Bucharest
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    Chapter 62 Early Warning Success for the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake: A Best Practice Integrating Public Administration and Science
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    Chapter 63 Predictions and Social Response Capacities in Face of the 1995 Menglian Earthquake (M = 7.3): An Overview
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    Chapter 64 Project of Creation of an Earthquake Early Warning System for Armenia
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    Chapter 65 Can Plate Motion Surveys by GPS Measurements be Considered as an Alert System in Earthquake Occurrence?
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    Chapter 66 Volcano Monitoring and Eruption Warnings
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    Chapter 67 Geochemical Monitoring on Merapi Volcano, Indonesia
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    Chapter 68 Remote Sensing of Subglacial Eruptions in Iceland and the Development of Related Warning Systems
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    Chapter 69 Information and Warnings to Authorities and to the Public About Seismic and Volcanic Hazards in Iceland
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    Chapter 70 The Merapi-Project — Interdisciplinary Monitoring of a High-Risk Volcano as a Basis for an Early Warning System
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    Chapter 71 Early Warning Systems for Tsunami — an Overview
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    Chapter 72 Tsunami Warning System in Japan
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    Chapter 73 Advances in the Chilean Tsunami Warning System and Application of the TIME Project to the Chilean Coast
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    Chapter 74 A Tsunami Warning System in the SW Aegean Sea, Greece
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    Chapter 75 Early Warning Systems Related to Mountain Hazards
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    Chapter 76 Movement Studies to Forecast the Time of Breaking off of Ice and Rock Masses
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    Chapter 77 Avalanche Warning Switzerland 2000
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    Chapter 78 Monitoring the Conditions of Dangerous Lakes in Uzbekistan and Contiguous Territories
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    Chapter 79 The Contribution of the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) for Early Warning and Management of Wildfires
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    Chapter 80 Application of Logistic Models to Predict Human-Caused Forest Fires in Siberia
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    Chapter 81 The Use of Microsatellites in the Fight Against Pest Plagues
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    Chapter 82 ECPC’s Global to Regional Fire Weather Forecast System
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    Chapter 83 Overview of Lightning Detectors: Their Role in Risk Management of the Lightning Hazard
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    Chapter 84 Meteorology and Desert Locust: Experience and Implementation of a Monitoring System
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    Chapter 85 Early Warning Systems for Asteroid Impacts
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    Chapter 86 Space-Borne Autonomous On-Board Recognition of High Temperature Events
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    Chapter 87 Dedicated Earth Monitoring and Disaster Warning Applications by Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN)
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    Chapter 88 The Finnish Forest Fire Index Calculation System
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    Chapter 89 Satellite Based Forest Fire Detection and Automatic Alert System — Pilot Experiment
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    Chapter 90 Technological Hazards
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    Chapter 91 Early Warning Systems for Mitigation of Earthquake-Related Technological Risks
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    Chapter 92 A New Concept for the Earthquake Vulnerability Estimation and its Application to the Early Warning System
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    Chapter 93 Real-Time City Gas Network Damage Estimation System: SIGNAL
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    Chapter 94 GPS Monitoring of Structures: Recent Advances
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    Chapter 95 The Earthquake Early Warning System of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant
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    Chapter 96 Concept for Seismic Alarm and Monitoring of Soviet-Designed Nuclear Power Plants
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    Chapter 97 Optimizing the Seismic Early Warning System for the Tohoku Shinkansen
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    Chapter 98 Toward an Integrated Space Strategy for Disaster Management
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    Chapter 99 The Satellite Techniques in Early Warning Systems for Large Towns and Megacities
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    Chapter 100 Monitoring Fires with European Remote Sensing Satellite, ERS-2: The “Rush ATSR Fire Product” Demonstration
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    Chapter 101 Remote Sensing and GIS for Warning of Geological Hazards: Application in Vietnam
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    Chapter 102 The SAF Concept: European Networked Approach for Organising the Generation of Products Based on Satellite Data
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    Chapter 103 Use of Advanced Earth Observation Capabilities for Disaster Management — The Example of the Oder Flood 1997
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    Chapter 104 The Use of NOAA/AVHRR Data for Flood Disaster Monitoring in the Mekong River Delta
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    Chapter 105 An Early Warning System for Use in Developing Countries and Small Island States
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    Chapter 106 Small Island States and Early Warning Systems
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    Chapter 107 Tropical Cyclone Warnings and the Factors that Influence Response: The Trinidad and Tobago Experience
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    Chapter 108 Special Problems Faced by Sri Lanka as a Small Island State with Regard to Early Warning Systems for Cyclonic Storms
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    Chapter 109 Transferring Flood Warning Technology to Vulnerable Communities in Jamaica
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    Chapter 110 Technical Requirements for Early Warning Systems
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Chapter title
The Seismic Alert System in Mexico City and the School Prevention Program
Chapter number 56
Book title
Early Warning Systems for Natural Disaster Reduction
Published by
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, January 2003
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-55903-7_56
Book ISBNs
978-3-64-263234-1, 978-3-64-255903-7
Authors

Juan Manuel Espinosa-Aranda, A. Jimenez, G. Ibarrola, F. Alcantar, A. Aguilar, M. Inostroza, S. Maldonado, R. Higareda, Espinosa-Aranda, Juan Manuel, Jimenez, A., Ibarrola, G., Alcantar, F., Aguilar, A., Inostroza, M., Maldonado, S., Higareda, R.

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Professor 2 22%
Lecturer 1 11%
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Physics and Astronomy 1 11%
Social Sciences 1 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 11%
Engineering 1 11%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 2 22%