Abbreviations

Abbreviations

A1B ABM AA
One of the IPCC SRES scenarios anti-ballistic missile Auswärtiges Amt [Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Germany] African Contingency Operations Training Assistance Arms Control and Regional Security Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands Arctic Climate System Study American Council for the United Nations University anno domini [after Christ] Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies: Supporting European Climate Policy (EU funded project)

Sísmica [Colombian Association for Earthquake Engineering] Afet Koordinasyon Merkezi [Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Disaster Coordination Centre] Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi [Justice and Development Party] AG Kriegsursachenforschung [Study Group on the Causes of War] (at Hamburg University)
AKOM
ACOTA

AKP
ACRS

ACSAD
AKUF

ACSYS ACUNU
AL

AMMA
Arab League African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis Project
AD ADAM
AMU

An. 1
Arab Maghreb Union Annex 1 countries (under UNFCCC) Annex B countries (under Kyoto Protocol) Anavatan Partisi [Motherland Party] Australian National University Alliance of Small Island States Early Warning and Agricultural Productions Forecasting, project of AGRHYMET Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Assessing Public Health in Emergency Situations
An. B ANAP ANU AOSIS AP3A
ADB ADRC AESI
Asian Development Bank Asian Disaster Reduction Centre Asociación Española de Ingeniría Sísmica [Association for Earthquake Engineering of Spain] African Development Bank Agence Française de Développement Arab Forum on Environment and Development
AfD AFD AFED
APEC APHES

API APIICL
Annual Population Increase Andhra Pradesh (one of 27 States in India) Industrial and Investment Corporation Limited Arab Group for the Protection of Nature Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC released in 2007 Australian Research Council American Red Cross
AFES-PRESS Arbeitsgruppe Friedensforschung und
Europäische Sicherheitspolitik – [Peace Research and European Security Studies]

AGRHYMET AGRronomy HYdrology METeorology:
Regional Centre for training and application in agrometeorology and operational hydrology
AGRHYMET CILSS body on agronomy, hydrology and meteorology in Niamey (Niger)
AR4 ARC ARC ARC/INFO (ESRI GIS software) ArcGIS

Arc Geographic Information System

(computer software) Applied Research Institute, Jerusalem Association of Southeast Asian Nations Assembling the Tree of Life (project) Arms Trade Treaty
DIVERSITY relationships between biodiversity and agriculture
ARIJ

ASEAN ATOL ATT AU AUS

dream village)

context of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (2000) to the CBD (1992)) Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change (in Multiple Regions and Sectors)
African Union American University of Sharjah Afet Yönetim Merkezi [Istanbul Governorship Disaster Management Centre]
AIACC
AYM

AIDS AIMES
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome IGBP’s Analysis, Integration and Modelling of the Earth System project
B.U. BADEA
Boğaziçi University Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa

H.G. Brauch et al. (eds.), Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security, Hexagon Series on Human

and Environmental Security and Peace 5, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-17776-7, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

1506

Abbreviations

BASIC BBC
Brazil, South Africa, India, China (model developed by) Bogardi, Birkmann and Cardona
CBO CBOL CCA community based organization Consortium for the Barcode of Life climate change adaptation
BCM BCM/yr billion cubic meters (volume unit) billion cubic meters per year (yield or capacity unit) Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery of UNDP Border Environment Cooperation Commission (of NAFTA) Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo [InterAmerican Development Bank] Bosnia-Herzegovina

Ambiente y Desarrollo [Central American Commission on Environment and Development] (Challenge programme) Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Greenhouse scenario simulation model developed by the Canadian Centre for Climate Caribbean Community’s Center for Climate Change Climate Change, Environment and Migration Alliance
BCPR BECC BID
CCAFS CCC

CCCCC CCEMA
BiH

DISCOVERY monitoring current biodiversity, and understanding and predicting its change bioGENESIS DIVERSITAS Core Project on documenting biodiversity, its diversification, and the
CCIS CCS
Climate Change and International Security Carbon Capture and Storage effects of human-induced changes DIVERSITAS Core Project on finding ways
CCS CD
Consortium of Insurance Compensation

TAINABILITY to support conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity

Centres for Disease Control and Prevention common-but-differentiated convergence Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency Clean Development Mechanism Center for Disaster Preparedness Citizens’ Disaster Response Network Commission for Environmental Cooperation (of NAFTA) Complex Emergency Database Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Communauté Économique des États de l’Afrique de l’Ouest [Economic Community of West African States] Centro de Estudios sobre Desastres y Riesgos (de la Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá) [Centre of Studies on Disasters and Risks, University of the Andes, Bogota, Colombia]
CDC CDC CDERA

party in India)
BMD BMU
Ballistic Missile Defence Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit [Federal Ministry on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany] Bundesministerium der Verteidigung [Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany] Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung [Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany]
CDM CDP CDRN CEC
BMVg

BMZ
CE-DAT CEDAW

CEDEAO

CEDERI
BOLI BRIC BSE Bt
Barcode of Life Initiative Brazil, Russia, India, China Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Bacillus turengiensis

Reduction Technologies, Karlsruhe University

Command, control, communications Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International Council of Arab Ministers Responsible for the Environment
CEE/EEC CEHA CEN
European Economic Community Centre for Environmental Health Activities Caribbean Environment Network

CABI
CENAPRED Centro Nacional de Prevención de
Desastres [National Centre for the
CAMRE
Prevention of Disasters, Mexico]
CAP CAPMAS
Common Agricultural Policy Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics

Development (Clarke University) Caribbean Environmental Programme Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe [Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean]
CEP CEPAL
CARE CARICOM CAS CBD CBMs
Child Care Aware Caribbean Common Market complex adaptive systems Convention on Biological Diversity Confidence Building Measures

tank, Brussels, Belgium)

Abbreviations

1507

Développement International Center for Economic and Social Rights conflict early warning Conflict Early Warning and Response Network Dichlorofluorocarbon Trichlorofluorocarbon chlorofluorocarbons Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (signed on 19 November 1990) Common Foreign and Security Policy (European Union) Copenhagen Green Climate Fund Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
CO CO e CONABIO carbon dioxide carbon dioxide equivalent

CESR CEW CEWARN
Comisión Nacional de la Biodiversidad [National Commission on Biodiversity, Mexico] National Environmental Council (Peru) Consejo Nacional de Población [National Population Council]
CONAM

[National Commission of Arid Zones]
CFCs CFE
Congress party (national political party in India)

environmental regime, e.g. of UNFCCC) Consulting Engineers and Planners (consultancy form, Denmark) Caribbean Planning for Adaptation to Global Climate Change Central Pollution Control Board Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (World Bank) Centro de Previsao de Tempo e Estudos Climaticos (Brazil) Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) Committee for the Review of the Implementation (of UNCCD) Climate Research Unit (University of East Anglia, UK) (Australia’s Commonwealth) Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Center for Strategic and International Studies
CFSP
COWI CPACC
CGCF CGIAR

CPCB CPIA

People’s Party] Commission on Human Security Critical Infrastructure Continental intercalaire Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America
CHS CI CI
CPTEC CRED
CIA

CIBIOGEM Comisión Intersecretarial de Bioseguridad y
Organismos Genéticamente Modificados [Intersectoral Commission of Biosecurity and Genetic Modified Organisms]
CRIC CRU

[Statistics Information Centre] Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas [Centre for the Study of Energy, Environment and Technology]
CSIRO CSIS
CIEMAT

Research Committee for Science and Technology (of UNCCD) Collective Security Treaty Organization Continental Terminal Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Clean Technology Fund Cooperative Threat Reduction Program Centro Universitario Europeo per i Beni Culturali, Ravello [European University Centre for Cultural Heritage] Capabilities and Vulnerability Analysis Coarse woody debris
CIL

CILSS

Coal Industries Limited Comité Permanent inter Etats de Lutte Contre Secheresse dans le Sahel [Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel] Centro Internacional de Métodos Numéricos en Ingeniería (de la UPC, Barcelona) [International Centre of Numerical Methods in Engineering, UPC, Barcelona] Commonwealth of Independent States Latin American Council on Peace Research Climate and Cryopshere Climate Variability and Predictability centimetre (length unit)
CST CSTO CT CTBT CTF CTR CUBEC
CIMNE CIS CLAIP CliC CLIVAR cm CM
CVA CWD

Coupled Modelling

CMP centimetre per year (velocity unit) Conference of Member Parties to the Kyoto Protocol Comisión Nacional del Agua [National Commission for Water, Mexico] Center for Naval Analysis Center for a New American Security Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France)
D/CEW D3E
Disaster and Conflict Early Warning (Centre for Development, Economy, Ecology and Equity, Porto Alegre, Brazil, established by the World Social Forum) Development Assistance Committee Disability Adjusted Life Years
CNA
DAC DALY
CNA CNAS CNRS

1508

DANE DASK

Abbreviations

Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística [National Administrative Departmentt of Statistics] Doal Afet Sigorta Kurumu [Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool] Delhi Cantonment Board Department of Census and Statistics Delhi Development Authority Drylands Development Centre (of UNDP) Dryland Development Paradigm Draft Defense Planning Guidance Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane Demokratik Halk Partisi (Democratic People’s Party)

Raumfahrt [German Aerospace Establishment]
DM DMI DNA DNAs DNPAD
Disaster Mitigation Disaster Mitigation Institute

DCS
Designated National Authorities

Dirección Nacional de Prevención y Atención de Desastres (Colombia) [National Directorate of Disaster Prevention and Attention] Department of Defense Dirección para la Prevención y Atención de Desastres (del Ministerio del Interior, Bogotá) [Disaster Prevention and Attention Directorate of Interior Ministry, Bogota, Colombia] Defense Planning Guidance Democratic Party of Japan Devlet Planlama Tekilat [Turkey’s State Planning Organization] Desert Research Center (Egypt) Democratic Republic of Congo Debt Reduction Facility
DDA DDC DDP DDPG DDR
DoD DPAD
DDT DEHAP

DEM DEP DESA digital elevation model
DPG

DPJ DPT
Demokrasi Partisi (Democracy Party) Department of Economic and Social Affairs (United Nations) Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
DESD
DRC

DRC DRF DRI DRM DRR DRU DSAs DSP
DESERTEC (Concept for generating electricity in the deserts of the MENA region)
DEW
Disaster Risk Index disaster risk management disaster risk reduction Disaster Response Unit disaster early warning Division of Early Warning and Assessment (UNEP) Department for International Development (UK) Dartmouth Flood Observatory Directorate General (European Commission)
DEWA DFID
Debt Sustainability Analyses Demokratik Sol Parti [Democratic Left Party] Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer Demokratik Toplum Partisi [Democratic Society Party] Doru Yol Partisi [True Path Party]
DFO DG
DSSAT

(European Commission)
DHA DHI DHS
Department of Humanitarian Affairs Danish Hydrological Institute (Denmark) Department of Homeland Security Permanent Diagnosis (project of AGRHYMET) Distribuidora e Impulsora Comercial Conasupo [Commercial Distribution and Promotion of Conasupo] (a governmental commercial body for food distribution for marginal people) Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Medio Ambiente (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia) [Department of Hydraulic Engineering and Environment, Polytechnic University of Valencia]
DYP E. Coli EAC EACHFOR
Escheriquia Coli East Africa Community
DIAPER
(EU-funded research project on forced migration)
Diconsa DIHMA
EAS EAW EC EC ECHAM4
Eastern Aquifer System European Arrest Warrant European Community European Commission (atmospheric general circulation model by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany) European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid Office
ECHO ECLAC
Dii DIS
Desertec Industrial Initiative Data and Information Service
Economic Commission for Latin America

biodiversity science)
DJB DJF ecoHEALTH (DIVERSITAS Cross-cutting Network on relationships between plant and animal biodiversity and (re)emergence of infectious diseases and the consequences for wild biodiversity and human societies)
Delhi Jal Board December, January, February (northern hemisphere winter season) Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought
DLDD

Abbreviations

1509

States’ Monitoring Group

(Consorcio de Ingenieros Consultores) [Bogotá Natural Risk Evaluation, Consortium of Engineering Consultants] Emergency Response Team Earth System Analysis European Security and Defence Policy European Science Foundation Earth System Governance Environmental Sustainability Index European Security Strategy Earth System Science Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (University of Maryland, USA) Earth System Science Partnership emissions trading Euskadi Ta Askatasuna [Bask Land and Liberty] ecoSERVICES (DIVERSITAS Core Project on relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and services) Economic and Social Council (United Nations) Economic Community of West African States Economic Diversification Index (Urban) Earthquake Disaster Risk Index European Environment Agency European Economic Community equal emissions improvement per GDP Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
ERT ESA ESDP ESF ESG ESI ESS ESS ESSIC
ECOSOC ECOWAS EDI EDRI EEA EEC EEI EEOC
ESSP

ET ETA
EERI EEZ
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Exclusive Economic Zone
EFP EGTT EHCAM5
European foreign policy

Max Planck Institut für Meteorologie, model version 5 Institute for Environment and Human Security (United Nations University) environmental impact assessment European Investment Bank Emergency Disasters Database (of the Centre for the Epidemiology of Disasters of Catholic University of Lovain, Brussels) Euro-Mediterranean Association Agreement Euro-Mediterranean Climate Change Framework
ETH-Zurich Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule
Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)
ETS EU
EHS emission trading system

EIB EM(-)DAT

Africa European-Mediterranean European-Mediterranean Partnership Environmental Vulnerability Index Economic Vulnerability Index
EuroMed EMP EVI
EMAA EMCCF
EVI

Food and Agricultural Organization (United Nations) Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (World Bank) Food and Drug Administration (USA) Foreign Direct Investment Federal Emergency Management Agency (USA) Force, Event, Response Diagram Friends of Human Security Facts on International Relations and Security Trends Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (Nigeria)
EMI EMP EMS EMS EMSA ENAC
Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative Euro-Mediterranean Partnership European Macro-Seismic Scale Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome European Maritime Safety Agency Estrategia Nacional de Cambio Climático [National Strategy on Climate Change] Environment and Conflicts Project Environmental News Network European Neighbourhood Policy
FAO FCPF FDA FDI FEMA
ENCOP

ENN ENP
FER FHS FIRST
ENSEMBLES Ensemble-based predictions of climate changes and their impacts (a European Commission-funded project developed to quantify the uncertainty in long-term
FIVIMS predictions of climate change)
FMCT FMHUD
ENSO ENVSEC
El Niño-Southern Oscillation Environment Security Initiative (OSCE, UNEP, UNDP, NATO)

FOEME FOGAR
Friends of the Earth Middle East Forum of Global Associations of Regions

(UNESCO)
EPA EPB EPI EQA ERC
Environment Protection Agency (USA) Environmental Protection Bureaus Environmental Performance Index Environmental Quality Authority Environmental Research Centre freshwaterBIO- (DIVERSITAS Cross-cutting Network on DIVERSITY freshwater biodiversity)

Experimental and Network Data

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