Organization directory

EPA's mission is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment - air, water, and land - upon which life depends. For 30 years, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people.

The Vietnam Disaster Management Unit (DMU) is the mechanism chosen by the Government of Vietnam and the United Nations Development Program to join together over 1000 years of Vietnamese flood protection culture with twenty-first century western te

ICDO is an inter-governmental organization created in Monaco, 1966, by a Constituent Assembly of member states with an international treaty. Its headquarters are in Geneva (Switzerland).

CIESIN works at the intersection of the social, natural, health, and information sciences.

The Disaster Prevention Research Institute was established in 1951 at Kyoto University. It carries out research on a variety of problems related to the prevention and reduction of natural disasters.

-reduce the impact of natural and other threats in communities at risk;
-carry out comparative research in vulnerable areas;
-disseminate information on strategies and technologies which increase the resilience of communities at risk;

CSIRO is the Australia's national science agency.