Tsunami risk assessment and mitigation for the Indian Ocean: knowing your tsunami risk and what to do about it
- UNESCO Paris 2009
- 81 p. ill., tbls.
Presents guidelines which aim to facilitate the assessment and mitigation of risks from tsunamis to coastal communities, their infrastructure and other supporting systems, as a necessary complement to various detection and warning systems under development for Indian Ocean countries within IOTWS. Describes procedures for assessing and improving awareness of the tsunami hazard and for assessing coastal communities vulnerabilities and deficiencies in preparedness. Provide recommendations for practice in the management of risks.
General
RISK
INDIAN OCEAN
UNCERTAINTY
RECOMMENDATIONS
NATURAL DISASTERS
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
UNESCO
00153-UNESCO
Presents guidelines which aim to facilitate the assessment and mitigation of risks from tsunamis to coastal communities, their infrastructure and other supporting systems, as a necessary complement to various detection and warning systems under development for Indian Ocean countries within IOTWS. Describes procedures for assessing and improving awareness of the tsunami hazard and for assessing coastal communities vulnerabilities and deficiencies in preparedness. Provide recommendations for practice in the management of risks.
General
RISK
INDIAN OCEAN
UNCERTAINTY
RECOMMENDATIONS
NATURAL DISASTERS
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
UNESCO
00153-UNESCO