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English translation: environmental crisis centre

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Dutch term or phrase:	calamiteitenkamer Milieu
English translation:	environmental crisis centre
Entered by:	Dave Calderhead

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14:09 Nov 29, 2005

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Environment & Ecology / crisis management

Dutch term or phrase: calamiteitenkamer Milieu

A list of the participants to a "rampoefening":
het provinciaal coördinatiecentrum, twee burgemeesters, de inspecteur van het ministerie van Volkshuisvesting Ruimtelijke Ordening en Milieu, een vertegenwoordiger van drinkwaterbedrijf Evides, de provinciale calamiteitenkamer Milieu en de provincie Oost-Vlaanderen (België).

There is no reference to a particular province in the Netherlands.
I am confused by this "Milieu".

Vidmantas Stilius KudoZ activity Questions: 311 (1 open) (6 without valid answers) Answers: 1817
Local time: 15:16

environmental crisis centre

Explanation:
see refs:
Nations Assess Tsunami-Linked Environmental Damage
The Ministry of Environment requested urgent assistance from UNEP in establishing an environmental crisis centre in Jakarta, providing environmental ...
japan.usembassy.gov/e/p/tp-20050106-12.html

peopleandplanet.net > coasts and oceans > newsfile > tsunami ...
Specific requests for help have so far come from Indonesia, which has asked UN Environment Programme (UNEP) to establish an environmental crisis centre, ...
www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=2416

Environmental concerns on agenda as IMO and UNEP heads meet
... IMO staff to set up an environmental crisis centre in Indonesia to undertake work leading to the provision of relief and support for the stricken areas. ...
www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe. asp?topic_id=1018&doc_id=4601

Press Releases January 2005 - Environment Key to Long-term ...
Specific requests for help have so far come from Indonesia, which has asked UNEP to establish an environmental crisis centre, the Maldives, ...
www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/ Default.asp?DocumentID=421&ArticleID=4710&l=en

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The location is not the Netherlands, but Belgium [Belgie - East Flanders from 'drinkwaterbedrijf Evides, de provinciale calamiteitenkamer Milieu en de provincie Oost-Vlaanderen (België)' in your context

the answer you may need is Emergency Room at the Provincial Crisis Centre

See below:

SCK CEN 1952-2002 31 The Committee of Wise Men was a research ...
Bestandsformaat: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - HTML-versie
discharge into the environment). In the “Site Emergency”. stage, the members of the Emergency Room (SCK. •. CEN. crisis centre) meet to evaluate the ...
www.sckcen.be/sckcen_en/organisation/ brochure_uk/print/ENG2.pdf

[PDF] Kingdom of Belgium
Bestandsformaat: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - HTML-versie
factor aspects related to control room. personnel and its environment. ... the Research Center in Mol. in its emergency room AVN uses simple users friendly ...
www.fanc.fgov.be/newfanc/download/CNSanswersfinal_1.pdf

and

AVN emergency planning manual
Bestandsformaat: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - HTML-versie
www.avnuclear.be/avn/bel_nep3.pdf

The Decision cell leans notably on the advices of the Evaluation and Socio-economical cells. The taken decisions are then transmitted for practical implementation and execution to the Provincial Crisis Centre, managing all the multidisciplinary intervention teams (fire brigades, civil protection ......

Selected response from:

Dave Calderhead
Netherlands
Local time: 14:16

Grading comment

Thank you. Actually, it is the Netherlands - Zeeland:))
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +2

Centre for Disaster Management

Johan Venter

environmental crisis centre

Dave Calderhead

environmental emergency coordination center

Kate Hudson

environment emergency response centre

DutchConnection

Answers

14 mins confidence:

environment emergency response centre

Explanation:
'Milieu', environmental as opposed to human disasters. Known as EEC. Here therefore: provincial EEC.

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NOTE: KNOWN AS EER, NOT EEC!

www.metoffice.com/research/nwp/ publications/nwp_gazette/sept00/EMARC.html

DutchConnection
Local time: 13:16
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Dutch
PRO pts in category: 4

Notes to answerer

Asker: Well, doesn't "calamiteit" indicate that it is a natural disaster? Why "Milieu" then?

11 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

Centre for Disaster Management

Explanation:
Many references on the web

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I noted that Unesco use an extended version of the answer I gave, but then they probably have a few additional functions. They use the name Centre for Disaster Management and Environment Protection.

http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/file_download.php/a89c...

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Here is a great website on the topic, and also very appropriate IMO:

http://www.tsunamimaldives.mv/

Reference: http://www.yashada.org/mweb/
Reference: http://www.corporate.coventry.ac.uk/cms/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1...

Johan Venter
Local time: 14:16
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

7 mins confidence:

environmental emergency coordination center

Explanation:
The King County Emergency Coordination Center (ECC) Support Team was
formed
ww.metrokc.gov/prepare/about/ecc_support.aspx
State Emergency Coordination Center (ECC)
www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/environ/phone.htm
EICC, Emergency Information and Coordination Center.
ww.ohsep.louisiana.gov/ hurricanerelated/EmgMgtHurriAcronyms.htm

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http://www.ec.gc.ca/ee-ue/default.asp?lang=En&n=FDBFAF6B-1
During emergencies the Environmental Emergencies Branch Response Unit - the National Environmental Emergencies Centre assists the regional emergency office in the provision and coordination of response support (includes scientific analysis and advice on the environmental impacts of the release, technical advice on the best measures to contain and clean up the spill, modelling, weather forecasting and laboratory analysis) to the lead agency , and in the communication of this information to senior Environment Canada management.

Plenty hits for environmental emergency in combination with management/response centre/coordination etc

Kate Hudson
Netherlands
Local time: 14:16
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 23

Notes to answerer

Asker: What exactly are the functions of a calamiteinkamer (-kamer, not centrum) in the Netherlands? The context shows that it is different from a coordination centre, because there are already provincial coordination centres.

4 hrs confidence:

environmental crisis centre

Dave Calderhead
Netherlands
Local time: 14:16
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 15

Grading comment

Thank you. Actually, it is the Netherlands - Zeeland:))

Notes to answerer

Asker: I need exact info specific to the Netherlands.

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