Early warning

WMO stresses the urgent need for improving coordinated storm-surge advisory systems in the Gulf of Bengal and other parts of the world that at are risk of tropical cyclones...

NATO Science series, Environmental Security, vol. 77
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Ravello, Italy, 8-17 November 1999.

The four parts of this book: the Problem, managing the problem (mitigation), managing the problem (warnings and

'Every natural disaster is a reminder that knowledge is power. If we know what could happen, then we have no excuse for not doing something about it.'...

said Disaster Management Minister, Mahinda Samarasinghe during the launch of the seventh meeting of the regional Committee on Disaster Management yesterday....

'Earthquake prediction' is the ultimate goal for geoscientists. This volume presents the latest ideas of the ever fascinating and challenging research of earthquake prediction. Sunspot activity and Coronal mass ejection are considered to be influential

Extreme weather events are those events which society is unable to cope with. They are by definition rare stochastic events. Europe has experienced on unprecedented rate of extreme weather events in the last 30 years. Heat waves occurred in France, Italy

NATO science series IV: Earth and environmental sciences, vol. 11
Proceedings of the NATO advanced research workshop, held in Budapest, Hungary, 22-25 April 2001 
 
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have developed rapidly in recent years and now

Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 34, L22310, doi:10.1029/2007GL031922:

This article addresses volcanic risk reduction and the critical practical action of evacuating of people from threatened areas during volcanic unrest. The article proposes a