- Other Links
- - European Community
- - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO
- - International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA
- - United Nations Population Division
- - World Health Organization (WHO)
- - Other sites
- Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition
- Disaster Database (EMDAT)
Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) in collaboration with FAO has created a Disaster Database (EMDAT) including geo-referenced historical data between the years
1975 and 2000. The geo-referencing process aimed to localize each disaster within a country, by identifying geographical names recorded in EM-DAT and assigning 1st administrative level location
codes to each registered disaster event. In total, more than 2,300 events included in EM-DAT have been geo-referenced. It has resulted in 3,900 records at the first administrative level. Data is
currently available for Asia. Disasters are distinguished in “Natural” and “Technological”. The countries for which data is available are: Afghanistan, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Bhutan, Nepal,
Cambodia, Pakistan, China, Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Taiwan, Iran, Thailand, Japan, Vietnam and Laos. EMDAT is also issuing every week, for all new disasters, GLobal IDEntifier
Numbers (GLIDE), which is a system that assigns unique and unambiguous identification number to each disaster. The components of a GLIDE number consist of two letters to identify the disaster
type (e.g. ST - storms); the year of the disaster; a four-digit, sequence number; and the three-letter ISO code for country of occurrence. So, for example, the GLIDE number for Hurricane Mitch in
Honduras is: ST-1998-0345-HND. This number is posted by ReliefWeb and ADRC on all their documents relating to that particular disaster and gradually other partners will include it in whatever
information they generate. As information suppliers join in this initiative, documents and data pertaining to specific events may be easily retrieved from various sources or linked together using the
unique GLIDE numbers. Details on the information included in EMDAT database are included in Annex B.
http://www.em-dat.net/
- GLOBAL LAND COVER 2000 Project (GLC 2000)
- LandScan 2001 Global Population Database
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