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Thematic areas  
About natural disasters
UNESCO's actions

o Definition
o Facts
o Role of S&T
o S&T disciplines
o Prevention (Tools)

UNESCO's Mission

o Objectives
o Strategy

Projets

o LNSN
o RELEMR
o RELSAR
o PAMERAR
o RAP-CA

Activities

o Protection of educational

buildings and monuments
o Information & Education
o Post-disaster investigations
Intergovernmental
programmes
Natural Sciences Areas

Fresh Water

People and Nature

Oceans

Basic & Engineering
Sciences

Coastal Regions &
Small Islands

Science Policy

Regions/Countries
Europe/North AmericaArab StatesAfricaLatin America/CaribbeanAsia/Pacific
o Africa
o Arab States
o Asia/Pacific
o Europe/North America
o Latin America/Caribbean
o UNESCO Communities
o Field Network



PARTNERS


 

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) <http://www.adpc.net/>

Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) <http://www.adrc.or.jp/top.php>

Centre d'Etude des Risques Géologiques (CERG) <http://www.unige.ch/hazards/>

European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) <http://www.emsc-csem.org/>

Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction (GADR) <http://www.gadr.giees.uncc.edu/>

International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI) <http://www.iaspei.org/>

International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) <http://icl.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/>

International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) <http://www.itc.nl/>

International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) <http://www.unisdr.org/>

Observatories and Research Facilities for EUropean Seismology (ORFEUS) <http://orfeus.knmi.nl/>

United States Geological Survey (USGS) <http://www.usgs.gov/>


World Bank
(WB) <http://www.worldbank.org/>
Learning from Disasters

Consultation with communities devastated by December's tsunami is playing a vital role in the Bank's efforts to help people recover psychologically from the effects of the disaster. (More) .

 

Resources

  ARCHIVES
  Partners

  Publications

  Regional action program for   central America (RAP-CA)   Training packages:

 

Módulo de Capacitación:
(in Spanish)
containing educational materials
GIS Case Studies
(in English) containing all the GIS data from the UNESCO RAP-CA pilot projects

 

APELL
Publications APELL

APELL for Earthquake Risk

APELL and Floods

APELL for Schools and Educational Buildings

Global drives
o International decade
   on 
education for
   sustainable

Maps and Charts

  o Geological Map of
    the World

  o Hydrogeological Map
    of the World

 

 
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