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Tsunami Glossary

 Climate Change  Disaster Risk Management  Tsunami

 

Booklet on tsunamis with extensive bibliography

 

 

 

TSUNAMI-WHAT TO DO?

 Cyclone  Disaster Risk Management  Tsunami

This pamplet provides some of the important informations about what we can do when there is a Tsunami warning taking place.

This are some of the first and main facts to be aware of and it is some of the knowledge that could save your life.

SSD 221 and Planet Earth and it's Resources

 Disaster response  Disaster Risk Management  Greenhouse gases  Climate Change  Volcanic eruption  Earthquake  Tsunami  Water

Most modern astronomers believe that the universe began about 15 billion years ago when a very dense mass of material exploded in the so-called BIG BANG.  This explosion sent all the materials of the universe outward in all directions, so that our universe is still expanding.  All the galaxies, stars, planets, asteroids and other bodies in the universe were formed or are forming from the gas and dust of this enormous explosion.    New stars continue to be formed, while others die or disappear into “black holes”.

SCP121 and SCP 122 Intermediate and Advance science

 Climate Change  Greenhouse gases  Volcanic eruption  Disaster Risk Management  Earthquake  Tsunami  Water

 This is a course outline provided by the Vanuatu Institude of teachers college providing infomation on learning about the planet Earth.

NDMO Community Assessment Form and Guidelines

 Disaster Risk Management  Disaster management  Disaster preparedness  Disaster relief  Disaster response  Disaster risk  Disaster risk reduction  Drought  Earthquake  Fire  Flood  Hazard  Natural hazard  Resilience  Tsunami  Volcanic eruption  Vulnerability

Following TC Pam NDMO recognised the need for enhanced community based disaster risk management responses. As such over the last year NDMO has been working with its key in country partners to review, revise and update certain processes and tools. One of those DRM processes and tools is the community based disaster assessment process.

MDRR Project Brief

 Climate Change  Vulnerability  Disaster Risk Management  Cyclone  Disaster risk  Early warning system  Earthquake  Flood  Hazard  Natural hazard  Tsunami  Volcanic eruption  Vulnerability

Vanuatu is one of the most vulnerable countries to natural hazards on the planet, (World Bank, 2011). More than three quarters of the population are at risk from not just one, but multiple disaster events, including: tsunamis, volcano eruptions, flooding, cyclones and many more. According to the Pacific Catastrophic Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative (PCRAFI), undertaken by SPC and World Bank in 2010, Vanuatu can lose up to VT4 Billion in one year due to cyclone and earthquakes.

QGIS Training Manual

 Information Technology and Information Management  Geographical information systems  Information management  Information technology  Knowledge management

Quantum GIS (QGIS) is an open source GIS product. As such the software is constantly developing and being improved upon by the world-wide GIS community. QGIS is free and the source code is openly available for those who want to improve or customise the interrace/tools. These training materials are based in the latest stable release that was available at the time of the writing, QGIS 2.8.2

To download the latest version of the QGIS visit the offficial QGIS website http://www.qgis.org/