The aim of this report is to assist agencies working in the response to Cyclone Nargis by highlighting key lessons that have been learned from other natural disasters, specifically floods, hurricanes and cyclones. The report distils main findings and lessons from evaluations and synthesis reports contained in the ALNAP Evaluative Reports Database (ERD), as well as other learning initiatives concerned with responses to natural disasters. Where possible it provides links to these documents as well more...

International WaterCentre and WaterAid Australia are pleased to announce that they have recently launched their new publication, Sharing Experiences: Sustainable Sanitation in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The joint publication highlights practical measures to address the sanitation challenges in our region.

Key Business Areas:
The primary business areas are Education and Training, Research and Consultancy.

Whilst located in Brisbane, IWC operates through the virtual network of the univ more...

There is evidence that the results of research are not always fully exploited. It is thus important to improve the dissemination of research results so that they are both more usable for policy makers and help to communicate understanding of environmental issues to the general public.

That is the reason why DG Environment has decided to establish this service in order to reinforce the links between science and policy.

The target audience are policy makers as well as the wider public.

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This web site has complete weather coverage for South Africa, including topics as follows: Mobile Phones,
Rain,
Severe Weather,
Clouds,
Mozambique Channel,
Lightning,
Aviation,
Interesting,
Global warming,
General Forecasts,
Rain Forecasts,
Coastal Areas,
El Nino Updates,
Racing Pigeons - Wind,
Fires,
Cyclones,
Rain USA,
The Weather School,
Webcams,
Photo Gallery,
Travel and Tourism,
Sport Stadiums Weather,
Google maps,
Wedding weather more...

This video segment adapted from NOVA explains the difference between weather and climate and features groundbreaking analysis revealing that Earth's climate has changed much faster than previously believed. This video is for grades 6-12 and just one of the many recent additions to the OER Commons site. Click on the EYE icon to watch the 5-minute film.

The Module is designed to provide a critical overview of the theory and practice of EIA as operated internationally to those students who need to understand EIA: this includes formal students being graduate and postgraduate students, plus practitioners/professionals.

Within this framework there are opportunities to customise the material to reflect local jurisdictional procedures and issues.

The Module covers the:

* purpose and aims of EIA;
* EIA administration and practice;
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This online full course is provided by the James Baker Institute, RICE University. Energy is a basic necessity for human activity and economic and social development. Yet global strategies for how to meet this basic need for the world's rapidly growing population are sorely lacking. Lack of energy services is directly correlated with key elements of poverty, including low education levels, restriction of opportunity to subsistence activity, and conflict.

UNESCO has just released a new CD-ROM with a collection of UNESCO documents on science and technology education at the secondary school level. These ocuments include:
* “Guidelines for Policy-making in Secondary School Science and Technology Education”
* “Girls and Science : A training module on motivating girls to embark on science and technology careers”
* “Technology-based training of marginalized girls”
* “Partnerships for relevant science and technology edu more...

ScienCentral News is a news service providing science news feeds for television stations. The feeds are available on the ScienCentral website, with accompanying text, and are suitable for educational purposes. Most stories are relatively short, as is appropriate for a television news program. A new service, titled Science Sensei provides programming targeted at teen agers. The site and its feeds are the product of ScienCentra, a production company specializing in science and technology content f more...

MIT OpenCourseWare shares over sixty online full courses produced by its Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS). The phenomena under investigation in those areas are often vexingly complex, and they engage a large array of scientific disciplines: Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geobiology, Physical and Chemical Oceanography, Meteorology, Atmospheric Chemistry, and Planetary Science. EAPS operates world-class research and graduate educational programs in all of these d more...