A New CD on El Niño Phenomenon

The Regional Disaster Information Center (CRID) together with the PAHO´s Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief Program (PED) and the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) produced CD-Rom that contains a variety of information resources on El Niño phenomenon. This CD is meant as a contribution to the recently inaugurated ‘Centro Internacional de Investigación del Fenómeno El Niño -CIIFEN- (International Center for Research on the El Niño Phenomenon), based in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

The CD contains a collection of 121 full-text electronic documents as well as a list of 19 websites. Information is easy to locate, grouped by topic or can be found with a simple-to-use search option.

Main topics are the following: Agriculture, Climatic Changes, Damage Assessment, Environment, Drought, Health Effects, Planning for Disasters, UN Resolutions, and Selected Websites.

For more information, please contact: crid@crid.or.cr