Natural disaster mitigation agency based in Hawaii
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Pacific Disaster Center (PDC)[1] is an applied science, information and technology center, working to reduce disaster risks and impacts on life, property, and the economies worldwide.
PDC's products and services are used to support sound decision making in disaster response and civil-military humanitarian assistance operations, as well as in disaster risk reduction, mitigation and planning. The Center is primarily engaged in:
Enhance Disaster early warning and decision support capabilities and technologies;
Advancing risk and vulnerability assessment (RVA), including socio-cultural analyses of risk;
Cultivating international working partnerships to support capacity building in developing countries through training and technical assistance;
Supporting humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations.
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