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Social innovations and drivers in flood early warning systems: A community‐based transboundary perspective from Elegu flood plain in Northern Uganda

Journal of Flood Risk Management
Early warning systems play significant roles in disaster risk reduction and management. However, a global picture of how they function on the ground, especially in developing countries, is lacking.
Vincent Canwat
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Real-Time Estimation of Earthquake Magnitude for Seismic Early Warning

, 2006
A prototype system for earthquake early warning and rapid shake map evaluation is being developed and tested in southern Italy based on a dense, wide-dynamic seismic network (accelerometers + seismometers) under installation in the Apenninic belt region (
Aldo Zollo, Maria Lancieri, Zollo, A., LANCIERI M., ZOLLO, ALDO, Lancieri, M.   +5 more
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Modeling and detection of hydrodynamic trends for advancing early-tsunami warnings

, 2013
The automated detection of tsunamigenic signals at oceanic observation stations is highly desirable for the advancement of current tsunami early warning systems.
Lowe, Peter, Omira R., Sabeur Z., Tinti, Stefano, Wächter J., Arbab-Zavar, Banafshe, Lendholdt M., Pagnoni, Gianluca, Sabeur, Zoheir, Omira, Rachid, Arbab Zavar B., Löwe P., Wachter, Joachim, Hammitzsch, Martin, Armigliato, Alberto, Lendholdt, Matthias, Hammitzsch M.   +16 more
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Information Sharing and Coordination in Collaborative Flood Warning and Response Systems

, 2018
The introduction of new information and communication technologies enables communities to share information and self-organize in the response to disasters.
Alfonso, Leonardo (author), Nespeca, V., Comes, M., Nespeca, Vittorio, Comes, Tina, Alfonso, Leonardo, Nespeca, V. (author), Comes, M. (author)   +7 more
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Crisis Prevention and Management - What Worked in the 2008/2009 Crisis? [PDF]

This paper takes a systematic look at the economic impact of the crisis that started in earnest in the fall of 2008 across countries and regions. Despite warnings of growing domestic and external imbalances in many countries years ahead of the crisis ...
Becker, Torbjörn
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Early Warning Indicators of Economic Crises: Evidence from a Panel of 40 Developed Countries [PDF]

Using a panel of 40 EU and OECD countries for the period 1970-2010 we construct an early warning system. The system consists of a discrete and a continuous model. In the discrete model, we collect an extensive database of various types of economic crises
Borek Vasicek, Jan Babecky, Marek Rusnak, Jakub Mateju, Katerina Smidkova, Tomas Havranek   +5 more
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Warning systems

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Synthesis of Best Practice for Increasing Protection and Visibility of Highway Maintenance Vehicles, CTRE Final Report Iowa DOT Project TR-475, August 2002

, 2002
The purpose of this research project is to study current practices in enhancing visibility and protection of highway maintenance vehicles involved in moving operations such as snow removal and shoulder operations, crack sealing, and pothole patching ...

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SAFE: An early warning system for systemic banking risk [PDF]

This paper builds on existing microprudential and macroprudential early warning systems (EWSs) to develop a new, hybrid class of models for systemic risk, incorporating the structural characteristics of the fi nancial system and a feedback amplification ...
Dieter Gramlich, Mikhail V. Oet, Jing Wang, Ryan Eiben, Timothy Bianco, Stephen J. Ong   +5 more
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Health Care Providers' Perspectives on Early Warning Systems for Acute Respiratory Infections in Canada: Qualitative Study. [PDF]

JMIR Public Health Surveill
Qiang J, Maruthananth K, Farrukh M, Pinto AD, Hosseini B.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source