 Pacific
Disaster Center
The Pacific Disaster Center's mission is to
provide applied information research and analysis
support for the development of more effective
policies, institutions, programs and information
products for the disaster management and humanitarian
assistance communities of the Asia Pacific region
and beyond.
With our Managing Partner, the East-West Center,
and in cooperation with regional and national
disaster management agencies, the PDC strives
to support and facilitate the innovative use of
information, technology, and applied research
to:
- Promote proactive, rather than reactive,
planning that includes hazard mitigation as
a key element of sustainable development.
- Increase efficiency of operational organizations
by introducing innovative, and appropriately
scaled, information resources, tools, and analyses.
Central to achieving these objectives is providing
unique and valuable geospatial and disaster-related
information through a web-based data system for
international, regional, national and local information
dissemination. Through the use of the PDC web-based
information system, disaster managers can develop
both situational awareness and develop appropriate
pre-, syn-, and post-disaster responses (ranging
from the assessment of hazards and risk to managing
risk through mitigation, preparedness, response,
recovery and reconstruction.)
Associated with, and complimenting our web based
activities is PDC's unique capacity to explore,
test, and scale new support tools and applications
for emergency response, mitigation, and situational
awareness purposes e.g. an interactive hazard
atlas, a web-based information-sharing clearinghouse,
an automated tsunami alert system, and risk modeling.
The Pacific Disaster Center's web site is designed
to service emergency managers' understanding of
current hazard and disaster activity in the region
as well as provide you with information about
the PDC -- our services, capabilities, and products.
In the following pages, you will learn how PDC
products and services have helped emergency managers
by offering them technology solutions, providing
decision and policy support, analyzing risk and
vulnerability, and aiding in humanitarian assistance
efforts in Afghanistan, the Caribbean, Fiji, Thailand,
Japan, Vanuatu, Guam, and Hawaii.
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