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Since 1988 the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has been maintaining an Emergency Events Database EM-DAT. EM-DAT was created with the initial support of the WHO and the Belgian Government.
The main objective of the database is to serve the purposes of humanitarian action at national and international levels. It is an initiative aimed to rationalise decision making for disaster preparedness, as well as providing an objective base for vulnerability assessment and priority setting.
EM-DAT contains essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 18,000 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to present. The database is compiled from various sources, including UN agencies, non-governmental organisations, insurance companies, research institutes and press agencies.
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From January 2010, CRED has established 34 MoU with specific institutions who wish to have an access to the raw EM-DAT data on a yearly basis: Stanford University, International Policy Studies University Maryland, Department of Economics Purdue University, Economics Department Centre Intern. Recherche Environn. et Développement Univ. Colorado, Centre for Science and Tech. Policy Research Rand Corporation New York University, Economics Department Harvard Medical School, Disaster Medicine Section University Bristol, Erath Science Department Kiel Institute for the World Economy National Disaster Management Centre University Southampton, Economics Department Universitat Pompeu Fabra University Manchester Florida Atlantic University, Department Economics London School Economics MunichRe, Geo Risk Research George Washington University, Department Finance European Space Agency (Italy) Higher School of Economics (Russia) University of Houston, Department of Economics (USA) Word Fish Center (Malaysia) University of California, School of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (USA) Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (France) University of Tokyo, River and Environmental Engineering Laboratory (Japan) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) London School of Economics (UK) National Autonomous University of Mexico, Institute of geography (Mexico) Tilburg University (Netherland) Montana State University, Department of Agricultural Economics (USA) Department of Economics (USA) Universita degli Studi di Milano (Italy) Laboratoire d’Economie de la Production et de l’Intégration Internationale (France) Kingston University (UK) |