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	Joint Managing Authority for Black Sea Programme.
	The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) was founded in 1975, following a recommendation from the European Seismological Commission (ESC). The ESC is a regional commission of the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior (IASPEI),itself a specialized association of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG).
	GDACS is a cooperation framework between the United Nations, the European Commission and disaster managers worldwide to improve alerts, information exchange and coordination in the first phase after major sudden-onset disasters.
	Kandilli Observatory, is a unique organization in Turkey, was annexed to Boğaziçi University on the basis of cabinet executive order 41 on 28 March 1983 and has acquired an institutionalstatus, namely KANDILLI OBSERVATORY AND EARTHQUAKE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (KOERI).
	G.I. is one of the oldest Institutes in Greece operating continuously since 1893. The location of the Head Office of I.G is on the hill of Nymphs, opposite to Acropolis, at the center of Athens. It is the main center in Greece, for the continuous monitor of the seismicity of the country and reporting to national and international authorities.Moreover Institute’s aim is the study and research in the fields of: seismology, physics of the earth’s interior, geophysics, plate tectonics, volcanology and geothermy, neotectonics, tsunamis, seismotectonics. and Strong Motion and Engineering Seismology
	Eionet is a partnership network of the European Environment Agency (EEA) and its member and cooperating countries involving approximately 1000 experts and more than 350 national institutions. The network supports the collection and organisation of data and the development and dissemination of information concerning Europe’s environment
	Hyogo Framework In January 2005, 168 Governments adopted a 10-year plan to make the world safer from natural hazards at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, held in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.The Hyogo Framework is a global blueprint for disaster risk reduction efforts during the next decade. Its goal is to substantially reduce disaster losses by 2015 – in lives, and in the social, economic, and environmental assets of communities and countries.The Hyogo Framework offers guiding principles, priorities for action, and practical means for achieving disaster resilience for vulnerable communities.
	The main objective of the database is to serve the purposes of humanitarian action at national and international levels. It is an initiative aimed to rationalise decision making for disaster preparedness, as well as providing an objective base for vulnerability assessment and priority setting. Since 1988 the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has been maintaining an Emergency Events Database EM-DAT. EM-DAT was created with the initial support of the WHO and the Belgian Government..
	The overall objective of the Hazard Risk Mitigation and Emergency Preparedness Project is to assist the Government of Romania in reducing the environmental, social, and economic vulnerability to natural disasters and catastrophic mining accidental spills of pollutants through: (i) strengthening the institutional and technical capacity for disaster management and emergency response through upgrading communication and information systems; (ii) implementing specific risk reduction investments for floods, landslides and earthquakes
	This website aims to form a platform for practitioners for dialog around the Guide’s themes and key messages. It provides the “Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century” which in turn provides forward-looking operational assistance to policy makers and technical specialists in the rapidly expanding cities and towns of the developing world on how best to manage the risk of floods. It takes a strategic approach, in which appropriate risk management measures are assessed, selected and integrated in a process that both informs and involves the full range of stakeholders
	The PREVIEW Global Risk Data Platform is a multiple agencies effort to share spatial data information on global risk from natural hazards.Users can visualise, download or extract data on past hazardous events, human & economical hazard exposure and risk from natural hazards. It covers tropical cyclones and related storm surges, drought, earthquakes, biomass fires, floods, landslides, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. Methodologies on hazards modeling were review by a team of 24 independent experts selected by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Education and Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
	The Global Runoff Database at GRDC is a unique collection of river discharge data collected at daily or monthly intervals from nearly 9000 stations in 157 countries. This adds up to around 360.000 station-years with an average record length of 40 years. The GRDC provides discharge data and data products for non-commercial applications.

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