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Written by Ayesha Zainudeen   
Thursday, 21 April 2005

A collection of disaster communication references gathered by LIRNEasia. Please submit additional references to Ayesha Zainudeen. It includes both online and print resources .

Abeywickrama, M. I., “No money to repair disaster warning unit,” Sunday Leader, 27 February 2005, p. 5.

Anderson, Peter S. & Gordon Gow (2004). Tsunamis and Coastal Communities in British Columbia: An Assessment of the B.C. Tsunami Warning System and Related Risk Reduction Practices. Ottawa: Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada. At: http://www.ocipep.gc.ca/research/resactivites/CI/2003-D001_e.asp

Asian Development Bank, Japan Bank for International Cooperation and World Bank (February 2005) Sri Lanka 2005 post-tsunami recovery program: Preliminary damage and needs assessment, Annex 15, paragraph 11.

Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Annual Report 2003

Champika Liyanaarachchi, “Disaster management: Preventive side nil,” Daily Mirror, 21 May 2003. At: http://www.dailymirror.lk/2003/05/21/opinion/1.html

Clinton, Bill: My Life, (New York: Random House, 2004)

Fernando, W.B.J., Sri Lanka Country Report, 1999, Asian Disaster Reduction Center, http://www.adrc.or.jp/countryreport/LKA/LKAeng99/SriLanka99.htm

Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), 10 year Implementation Plan: Reference Document, p. 19 http://earthobservations.org/docs/GEO204%20Final%20Draft%20Reference%20Document.pdf

The Internet Society Challenge. At: http://www.isoc.org/challenge

National Science and Technology Council (2000). Effective Disaster Warnings, Report by the Working Group on Natural Disaster Information systems, Subcommittee on Natural Disaster Reduction. Washington, DC. At: http://www.fema.gov/nwz00/effectivedoc.shtm

Partnership for Public Warning (2002). Developing A Unified All-Hazard Public Warning System, Report by The Workshop on Effective Hazard Warnings, Emmitsburg, Maryland November 25, 2002. McLean, VA. At: http://www.partnershipforpublicwarning.org/ppw/docs/11_25_2002report.pdf

Partnership for Public Warning (2003). A National Strategy for Integrated Public Warning Policy and Capability. McLean, VA. At: http://www.partnershipforpublicwarning.org/ppw/docs/nationalstrategy.pdf

Samarajiva, R. Getting from dysfunctional government to e(ffective) government: Mapping a path in Sri Lanka, International Journal of Regulation & Governance, 4(2), 2004: 171-85. http://www.teriin.org/online/ijrg/dec04/paper4.pdf

Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (1999). Final Report of Pilot Study on the Use of Telecommunications in Disaster and Emergency Situations in Sri Lanka. Colombo.

Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (1999). Study on the Feasibility of Establishing a Public Access Emergency System in Sri Lanka. Colombo.

Times of India, Geologists Take Moral Onus, 1 March 2005, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1036899,curpg-1.cms

United Nations (1995). Secretary General’s Report on Early Warning Capacities of the United Nations Systems with Regard to Natural and Similar Disasters, Presented to the Fiftieth Session of the United Nations General Assembly, October 1995. A/50/526. New York.

United Nations (2004). Inter-Agency Secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and German Committee for Disaster Reduction. Early Warning as a Matter of Policy: Conclusions of the Second International Conference on Early Warning, 16-18 October 2003, Bonn, Germany. Bonn. At: http://www.unisdr.org/ppew/info-resources/docs/EWCII-conclusions.pdf

United Nations (2005). International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, Platform for the Promotion of Early Warning. Bonn. At: http://www.unisdr.org/ppew

Vordzorgbe, Seth D. (2003). Synthesis of the Findings of the Early Warning Regional Consultations in Africa, Asia, the American Hemisphere and Europe. of the Second International Conference on Early Warning, 16-18 October 2003, Bonn, Germany. Bonn At: http://www.ewc2.org/upload/downloads/SynthesisOfTheFindingsOfRegCons.pdf

Weerabahu, P. K. “Adapting to an ICT based Emergency Warning System,” Ceylon Daily News, 25 Jan 2005 http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/01/25/fea12.html and related discussion at http://www.lirneasia.net/2005/01/adapting-to-an-ict-based-emergency-warning-system/#comments