Institutional Partnerships in MultiHazard Early Warning Systems

World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the editor would like to extend their deep appreciation to the team of experts from national agencies of a number of countries and territories as well as international agencies who contributed to the drafting and/or peer review of the chapters in this book, including, Dilder Ahmed, Curtis B. Barrett, Catherine Borretti, Daniel Bovitz, Steve Buan, Philippe Cova, Michael C. Curry, Jean-Noel Degrace, Laura Diamond, Lei Feng, Atsushi Goto, Arjumand Habib, Satoshi Harada, Naoyuki Hasegawa, Cyrille Honore, Michael Hudson, Chris Maier, Harold ‘Jim’ Keeney Jr., Lynn Maximuk, Frank Musonda, Haizhen Mu, Satoshi Ogawa, Yuichi Ono, Sergio Pasquini, Miguel A. Puig, Yutaka Sasagawa, Md. Shahidullah, Gerhard Steinhorst, Shotaro Tanaka, Axel Thomalla, Bhupindar Tomar, Jose Maria Rubiera Torres, Firoz Verjee, RainerVogelgesang, Norihisa Washilake, Joseph Mark Widner, Caroline Witter, Tang Xu and Yongjie Zou. This work was motivated by the outcomes of three International Early Warning Conferences hosted by the Govern­ment of Germany,5 and the 2006 “Global Survey of Early Warning Systems Report”.6 The methodology for the system­atic identification and documentation of the national good practices in Multi-Hazard EWS (MHEWS) presented in this book, was established through two International Experts’ Symposia on Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS Symposia), organized by the WMO in cooperation with a number of United Nations and International agencies and Member States.7 Specifically, the following national and international experts provided advice and feedback through their participation in the working groups and review teams associated with the two MHEWS Symposia: Shadekul Alam, Rosario Alfaro O, Andre Bachoc, P.M. Jayatilaka Banda, Curtis B. Barrett, Francoise Benichou, Ariane de Billy, Michael Bittner, Catherine Borretti, Fredrick Branski, David S. Burridge, Ezio Bussoletti, Jean-Marie Carriere, Tanja Cegnar, Car­los Costa-Posada, Hilda Aguilar Cressent, Philippe Dandin,Keiji Doi, Alan Douglas, Charles Dupuy, Philippe Estiez, Victor M. Fallas Chinchilla, Rene Feunteun, Kazuhiko Fukami, Hussein Gadain, Luis Garcia, Pierre-Alexandre Genillon, Francois Gerard, David S. Green, Xavier Junior Gulele, Mu Haizhen, Sri Woro B. Harijono, Paulus Joseph Prih Harjadi, Chris Hill, Cyrille Honore, Branka Ivancan-Picek, Francois Jacq, Michel Legrand Jean, Yves Le Bars, Magda Little, Lynn Maximuk, Mireille Mayoka-Massengo, Olivier Moch, Eunice Mucache, Mussa Mustafa, Sergio Pasquini, Andreas Pfaffemoschke, Eugene Poolman, Miguel A. Puig Gonzalez, Sophie Purdey, Paolo Reggiani, David Robinson, Daniel Roux, Jose Rubiera, Michel Legrand Saah, Michael D. Selves, Pierluigi Soddu, Alain Soulan, Vesna Stajcic, Bruce Stew­art, Bernard Strauss, Jean-Michel Tanguy, Akira Terakawa, Elda Vasquez de Godoy, Fazlul Wahab, Caroline Wittwer, Zou Yongjie, Steve Zebiak, Karl-Otto Zentel, Shameza Abdulla, Keith Alverson, Gabriel Arduino, Liliana Balbi, Reid Basher, Patricio Bemal, Joanne Burke, Stefanie Dannenmann, Melissa Arditto Delgado, Maxx Dilley, Glenn Dolce- mascolo, William Effah, Norberto Fernandez, Simao Ferraz de Campos Neto, Brad Garanganga, Menghestab Haile, John Harding, Terry Jeggle, Esteban Leon, Horst Letz, Alexia Massacand, Paolo Mattei, Ricardo Mena, Michele Meunier, Su- jit Mohanty, Ian O’Donnell, Paul Paredes-Portella, Pascal Peduzzi, Heidi Peugeot, Francesco Pisano, Everett Ressler, Alain Retiere, Magali Salazar, Johan Schaar, Rahul Sengupta, Gurpreet Singhota, Michael Staudinger, Yvette Stevens, Tang Xu, Akihiro Teranishi, Giacomo Teruggi, Katharina Thywissen, Bhupinder Tomar, Zoe Trohanis, Olivier Van Damme, Juan Carlos Villagran de Leon, Masahiro Yamamoto, Hong Yan, Yuichi Ono, Cosmas L. Zavazava