EM-DAT
This dataset can be used to obtain data on impacts of socio-economic droughts to the overall economy for the world.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- Date
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Purpose
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Mapping drought impact to the overall economy, Mapping drought impact to the population
- Credit
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N/A
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Daily
- Update scope
- Dataset
- Theme
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Type: Dataset
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Type of Drought: Socio-economic Drought
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Application: Mapping drought impact to the overall economy, Mapping drought impact to the population
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Extent: Global
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- Use limitation
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None
- Access constraints
- Intellectual property rights
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Date
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
- Distance
- Aggregation period: Year
- Distance
- Spatial scale: Country
Spatial resolution
- Metadata language
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eng
- Description
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World
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- Begin date
- 1900
- End date
- near real-time
- Date (Revision)
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / Spatial_reference / 7.9
- Distribution format
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Various
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Various
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- OnLine resource
- http://www.emdat.be/database
- Hierarchy level
- Series
- Description
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World
Temporal Extent
Vertical extent
- Dataset
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Mapping drought impact to the overall economy, Mapping drought impact to the population
Non quantitative attribute accuracy
- Measure description
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Drought event overviews reported by national sources often indicate more drought events than EM-DAT. Advised is to combine EM-DAT with national sources.
- Evaluation Method
- Direct internal
Conformance result
- Date (Revision)
- Pass
Conformance result
- Date
Completeness omission
- Name of measure
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Codelist omission
- Evaluation Method
- Direct internal
Conformance result
- Date (Revision)
- Pass
- Statement
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Data requirements to use: None;
Data used: UN agencies, non-governmental organizations, insurance companies, research institutes and press agencies. Priority is given to data from UN agencies, governments, and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. ;
Data format: CSV;
Data access: Portal on website;
Concise description:
EM-DAT is a global database on natural and technological disasters, containing essential core data on the occurrence and effects of more than 21,000 disasters in the world, from 1900 to present. EM-DAT is maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) at the School of Public Health of the Université catholique de Louvain located in Brussels, Belgium.
- File identifier
- a618cc1e-3388-4efc-8442-5a0ac6af7745 XML
- Metadata language
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eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
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EM-DAT
- Date stamp
- 2022-02-07T11:04:40
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Dataset URI
Overviews
Spatial extent
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