SciDevNet: Stronger links between scientific tools and the environment in which they operate can improve the effectiveness of early warning. To say there is a lot riding on disaster management is an understatement. The lives and livelihoods lost, as well as extensive damage, underscore the human, environmental, social and economic cost of extreme events that affect millions every year. [1] Consider just a few: the devastation caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, the earthquake that struck Haiti...
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