Environmental Emergencies and the Partnership

Trends
Links

Trends

There are documented increases in both the total number of natural disasters and affected populations, and in the incidents of technological disasters.  

Specific trend documentation can be found on, for example, in the databases of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) at http://www.cred.be/.  

The International Federation of the Red Cross World Disaster Reports similarly documents trends in disasters at http://www.ifrc.org/publicat/wdr/index.asp.

Links

Other useful links include:

United Nations

OCHA UNEP Joint Environmental Unit
http://www.reliefweb.int/ochaunep/
The OCHA ReliefWeb Site
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf
Post Conflict Assessment Unit
http://postconflict.unep.ch/
UNITAR   
http://www.unitar.org/
UN ECE Environment and Human Settlement Division
http://www.unece.org/env/welcome.html
World Health Organization http://www.who.int/health_topics/emergencies/en/
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
http://www.unisdr.org/
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
http://www.opcw.org/

International Organizations

Asia Disaster Preparedness Center
http://www.adpc.net/
Global Fire Monitoring Center
http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/