Early warning

Early warning is the provision of timely and effectiveinformation through identified institutions that allowsindividuals exposed to hazard to take action to avoidor reduce their risk and prepare for effective response. According to the United Nations’ International Strategy for Disaster Reduction early warning is the integration of four main elements. These are risk knowledge, monitoring and predicting, disseminating information, and response.

Risk assessment provides essential information to set priorities for mitigation and prevention strategies and designing early warning systems. Systems with monitoring and predicting capabilities provide timely estimates of the potential risk faced by communities, economies and the environment.

Communication systems are needed for delivering warning messages to the potentially affected locations to alert local and regional governmental agencies. The messages need to be reliable, synthetic and simple to be understood by authorities and the public.

Coordination, good governance and appropriate action plans are key points in effective early warning. Likewise, public awareness and education are critical aspects of disaster mitigation.

Failure of any part of the system will imply failure of the whole system. For example, accurate warnings will have no impact if the population is not prepared or if the alerts are received but not disseminated by the agencies receiving the messages.

Effective early warning systems embrace four aspects. They include risk analysis, monitoring and predicting location and intensity of the disaster, communicating alerts to authorities and to those potentially affected, and responding to the disaster. The early warning system has to address all aspects.

By providing information that allows individuals and communities to protect their lives and property early warning systems help to reduce economic losses and mitigate the number of injuries or deaths from a disaster. Early warning information empowers people to take action prior to a disaster. If well integrated with risk assessment studies and communication and action plans, early warning systems can lead to substantive benefits. Providing warning more accurately we will be able to manage and mitigate a disaster’s impact on society, economies, and environment.

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