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The Capacity Building programmes of GITEWS – visions, goals, lessons learned, and re-iterated needs and demands |
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T. Schlurmann, M. Siebert |
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Englisch
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1561-8633
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In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Science ; 11, no. 2 ; Nr. 11, no. 2 (2011-02-02), S.293-300 |
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250009145
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/nhess-11-293-2011.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| It was envisioned that the framework of the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early
Warning System (GITEWS) should achieve an integral architecture and
overarching technical design of an end-to-end tsunami early warning system
(TEWS). In order to achieve this ambitious goal on a national and local
level, a tailored set of capacity building measures has been started and
implemented. The programme was meant and designed to meet requirements and
urgent needs considering awareness raising campaigns, technical trainings and
higher level education programs. These components have been integrated as
complementary modules in order to ensure facilitating the early warning
system to be operated, maintained and improved, and that institutions and
people in coastal areas will respond adequately and timely in case of future
tsunamis. Remarkable progress has been accomplished as well as programs and
campaigns are being implemented in regard to a sustainable capacity
development conducted by national institutions in Indonesia. Yet, local
administrative and preparedness efforts on the Indonesian coastlines are
still underdeveloped. This stems from the fact of missing links towards
sustainable coastal zone management schemes on a broad local level. Yet, the
demand and urgent need for an adequate and integrated disaster risk reduction
and management addressing also other hazards in the region of interest is
(still) substantial. Given the tragic loss of life and severe damages
resulting from the December 2004 tsunami and recent series of severe
earthquakes, the need for urgent mitigating action in the imperilled coastal
regions of Sumatra and Java remains extremely high. The conceptual Capacity
Building framework, its anticipated goals in the beginning of the project
and, lately, the finally achieved objectives are promising. A significant
contribution for mainstreaming scientific approaches and transfer
methodological disaster risk reduction attempts towards other regions exposed
to coastal hazards is still pending. Local authorities and researchers in
tentative affected regions are now trained and enabled to disseminate and
apply their knowledge and planning experience to other coastal regions in the
area to help facilitating and multiplying effective disaster management plans
and strategies. Yet, the Capacity Building framework within GITEWS also
elucidated gaps in the early warning chain so that updated and to some extent
re-iterated needs and demands in Capacity Building programs in any future
research or development cooperation project are presented and discussed. |
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