Included are examples of successful community-based early warning systems: Red Cross Red Crescent good practices in early warning http://www.ifrc.org/Global/Case%20studies/Disasters/cs-earlywarning.pdf

In October 2007, almost three years after the tsunami, the DEC commissioned experts from Arup to carry out a short mission to Aceh to review the post-tsunami reconstruction programme undertaken by DEC Member Agencies. The aim of the mission was to pr...

Online resources relevant to the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), as selected by the author (Eliot Christian). An international standard (ITU Recommendation X.1303), CAP defines a kind of “standard form”, with fill-in boxes and check boxes...