http://www.unu.edu/unupress/2009/headsup.html
Heads Up! Early Warning Systems for Climate, Water and Weather-Related Hazards
Edited by Michael H. Glantz
United Nations University Press, 214 pages, May 2009
Table of contents
Foreword
Introduction
*Interest in early warning
*The "Precautionary Principle" as the basis of early warning
*What constitutes an early warning system (EWS)
*Some tools of the early warning trade
*Indigenous knowledge
*Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
*Remote sensing
*Forecast warning terminology
*EWS quick facts
*Threats: The perils that compel early warning
*The perception of the role of EWSs
*The reality of the role of EWSs
*Surprises
*The future has been arriving earlier than predicted... take global warming, for example
*Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Constraints assessment
Climate-, water- and weather-related hazards
*Hurricanes
*Hurricane Katrina: Good forecast, poor response
*Cyclone Nargis
*Severe winter storms
*Superstorm 1993: North America and the Caribbean
*Heat waves
*Heat waves can be killers
*European heat wave 2003
*Early warning system for heat waves in Galicia, Spain
*Tornadoes
*El Niño Southern Oscillation
*Vector-borne disease
*Climate-based malaria early warning system in Ethiopia
*Avian influenza
*Severe weather
*Fire Danger Index (FDI)
*Anatomy and Australian bushfires
*Air pollution in metropolitan areas
*Dust and sandstorm warning
Too much, too little
*Floods
*China’s 1998 Great Yangtze River Floods
*Flash floods
*Droughts
*The NOAA's Palmer Drought Severity Index and Crop Moisture Index
*Drought in Africa
*Famine Early Warning System Network
*Australian monitoring for drought early warning
*Drought in Latin America
Global warming
*Global warming
*The Polar Regions: A “place” as an EWS for global warming
*Coral reef bleaching
*The coral bleaching phenomenon
*Sea-level rise
*Integrated Vector Management
Earth hazards
*Tsunamis
*Indian Ocean tsunami 2004
*Volcano early warning systems
*Alaska Volcano Warming System
*Development of the Mount Pinatubo Warning System
*Earthquake early warning
*Space weather
*US ultraviolet forecasts
Concluding thoughts
*Lessons learned about "lessons learned"
*Foreseeability of hazards
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