Incluye referencias bibliográficas.

1. An Overview: Building a Global Knowledge Base of Lessons Learned from Good Practices in Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems / Maryam Golnaraghi -- 2. The Tropical Cyclone Early Warning System of Cuba / José Maria Rubiera Torres and Miguel A. Puig -- 3. The Bangladesh Cyclone Preparedness Program. A Vital Component of the Nation’s Multi-Hazard Early Warning System / Arjumand Habib, Md. Shahidullah and Dilder Ahmed -- 4. The French Vigilance System. Contributing to the Reduction of Disaster Risks in France / Catherine Borretti -- 5. The Warning Management of the Deutscher Wetterdienst / Gerhard Steinhorst and Rainer Vogelgesang -- 6. Multi-Hazard Early Warning System of the United States National Weather Service / Harold ‘Jim’ Keeney Jr., Steve Buan and Laura Diamond -- 7. The Shanghai Multi-Hazard Early Warning System: Addressing the Challenge of Disaster Risk Reduction in an Urban Megalopolis / Xu Tang, Lei Fang, Zongjie Zou, Haizhen Mu -- 8. Multi-Hazard Early Warning System in Japan / Naoyuki Hasegawa...(et al.) -- 9. Synthesis of Seven Good Practices in Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems / Maryam Golnaraghi

"This book documents seven examples of Early Warning Systems for hydrometeorological and other hazards that have proven effective in reducing losses due to these hazards. The cases studied encompass a variety of climatic regimes and stages of economic development, raging across the industrialized countries of Germany, France, Japan and the United States, to Bangladesh, the island nation of Cuba and the mega-city of Shanghai. Demonstrated characteristics of these exemplary cases are synthesized into ten guiding principles for successful early warning systems that will, it is hoped, prove useful to countries seeking to develop or strengthen such systems within their own borders." -- Cubierta.

Texto en inglés.