Report on Early Warning for Hydrometeorological Hazards Including Drought

Convener of International Working Group, and Author:
Dr. Desmond O’Neill (Consultant)

World Weather Watch Department, World Meteorological Organization
Geneva, Switzerland

IDNDR Secretariat, Geneva October 1997

WHOLE DOCUMENT (131 k)

CONTENTS

FOREWORD
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

I. INTRODUCTION

  • IDNDR Early Warning Objective and Programme
  • Hydrometeorological Hazards including Drought
  • Hydrometeorological Contributions to Early Warning 
  • Non-hydrometeorological Hazards


II. EARLY WARNING FOR HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL HAZARDS

  • A Framework for Evaluation of Early Warning Capacities
  • Meteorological and Hydrological Infrastructure
  • Drought
  • Risk Assessment including Hazard Assessment and Vulnerability Analysis
  • Present Realities - Overall Consideration of Risk Assessment
  • Hazard Detection
  • Present Realities - Overall Assessment of Hazard Detection
  • Prediction
  • Present Realities - Overall Assessment of Prediction
  • Communications and Dissemination
  • Present Realities - Overall Assessment of Communications and Dissemination
  • Public Awareness and Understanding
  • Present Realities - Overall Assessment of Public Awareness and Understanding
  • Coordination
  • Present Realities - Overall Assessment of Coordination
  • Post Disaster Support 
  • Present Realities - Overall Assessment of Post Disaster Support
  • Infrastructure Capacity Building 
  • Present Realities - Overall Assessment of Infrastructure Capacity Building


II. RECOMMENDATIONS

  • General Observations
  • Building Local and National Capacities
  • Building Global Capacities
  • Related Issues for Building Capacities
  • Improving Coordination at Local and National Levels
  • Improving Global Coordination 

IV. REFERENCES

V. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

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