Reviewing global development of multi-hazard early warning system with the perspective of its development in Indonesia

Andi Eka Sakya,R Haigh,L Comfort,A Hakam,F.A Ismail

doi:10.1051/matecconf/201822902020

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https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201822902020

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Abstract

Never before a catastrophe brought an influence of the world’s attention like the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004 (IOT04). Before IOT04, states of the development of Early Warning System technology (EWS) was not as advanced and progressive as it is today. Together with the unavoidable impacts of climate change, disasters - both geologically and hydro-meteorological - are increasingly becoming the mainstream of global concern. Likewise, it’s EWS technology. This paper reviews the global development of EWS technologies, both related with geologically and hydro-meteorologically: before IOT04, current, and future development vision. The discussion of UN Agencies in the series of endeavor undertaken to embody Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2030 leads to a vision of the future development of EWS technology. Three factors become the primary drivers of EWS progress, among others, the growing awareness of the community that alter the form of a requirement of early warning information, the state of development of information technology, and observational instrumentation. The perspective of its application in Indonesia is also discussed.

Highlights

Losses, and damages arising as a result of disaster caused by, among others, the absence of an early warning system (EWS)
This paper aims at delivering a review of the global development of EWS and the perspective of its development in Indonesia
UNISDR further describes that an EWS is a set of capacities to generate and disseminate timely and meaningful warnings for the community at risk to act appropriately and in sufficient time to reduce the possibility of harm or loss [4]. Both [2] and [4] served a systematic definition of EWS, it, reiterates the fact that even at the global level, an orderly description came after five years of IOT04

Summary

Introduction

Losses, and damages arising as a result of disaster caused by, among others, the absence of an early warning system (EWS). The EWS becomes very important to mitigate the victims, loss, and damage. After IOT04, an international organization such as WMO (World Meteorological Organization), IOC/UNESCO (International Oceanographic Commission/United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), UNISDR (United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction) and others, develop policy framework on Multi-hazards Early Warning. To meet the SDG2030, the UNESCO's Medium Term Strategic Plan 2014–2021, in conjunction to coastal hazards, addressed the EWS of seismic and non-seismic tsunamis as one of the strategic factors to anticipate the disasters and mitigating the victim, loss-and-damage. The direction states of EWS development post-SFDRR vision is outlined

Material and methodology

State of development before IOT04

Decade after IOT04

EWS future development

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Concluding remarks