Effective Disaster Warnings Report Published
Release Date: November 17, 2000
Release Number: HQ-00-135
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Effective Disaster Warnings, a report by an interagency working group on Natural Disaster Information Systems under the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (CENR) Subcommittee on Natural Disaster Reduction under the President's National Science and Technology Council was published this month.
The report is designed to assist scientists, engineers, and emergency managers in developing more accurate and more numerous warnings as they deploy better sensors to measure key variables, employ better dynamic models, and expand their understanding of the causes of disasters. Warnings are becoming much more useful to society as lead-time and reliability are improved and as society devises ways to respond effectively.
A broad overview of major issues is presented relating to warning the right people at the right time so they can take appropriate action with respect to the disaster. It also addresses the problems of delivering warnings reliably to only those people at risk and to systems that have been preprogrammed to respond to early warnings.
There are also recommendations on improving delivery and effectiveness of warnings over the next 5 to 10 years and the need for close collaboration between federal, state, local, and private sector organizations to leverage government and industry capabilities to deliver effective disaster warnings.
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