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calamiteitenkamer Milieu

English translation: environmental crisis centre

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

14:09 Nov 29, 2005
Dutch to English translations [PRO]
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
Local time: 12:42
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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Note added at 9 hrs 5 mins (2005-11-29 23:14:30 GMT)
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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: 11:42
Grading comment
Thank you. Actually, it is the Netherlands - Zeeland:))
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2Centre for Disaster Management
Johan Venter
5environmental crisis centre
Dave Calderhead
4environment emergency response centre
DutchConnection
4environmental emergency coordination center
Kate Hudson (X)


  

Answers


14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
environment emergency response centre


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

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Note added at 15 mins (2005-11-29 14:25:08 GMT)
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NOTE: KNOWN AS EER, NOT EEC!


    www.metoffice.com/research/nwp/ publications/nwp_gazette/sept00/EMARC.html
DutchConnection
Local time: 10:42
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in DutchDutch
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: Well, doesn't "calamiteit" indicate that it is a natural disaster? Why "Milieu" then?


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Johan Venter: Dito as per my comment with kate's answer. Not a single hit in the web using "environment emergency response centre"
12 mins
  -> See my web ref. Also, the English have different facilities, with different names, this is a Dutch facility.
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Centre for Disaster Management


Explanation:
Many references on the web

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Note added at 21 mins (2005-11-29 14:31:21 GMT)
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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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Note added at 31 mins (2005-11-29 14:40:32 GMT)
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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
Czech Republic
Local time: 11:42
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  thinkpad (X)
2 hrs
  -> Thanks
agree  zbenek (X): This is also the term I'm familiar with and loads of hits
2 hrs
  -> Thanks
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
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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Note added at 37 mins (2005-11-29 14:47:20 GMT)
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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 (X)
Netherlands
Local time: 11:42
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.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Johan Venter: I did not find a single hit on the web using "environmental emergency coordination center"
8 mins
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
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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Note added at 9 hrs 5 mins (2005-11-29 23:14:30 GMT)
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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 ......


Dave Calderhead
Netherlands
Local time: 11:42
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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