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**Chapter 22** 

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The *Observatorio Latinoamericano de Eventos Extraordinarios* (OLE2)*,* or *Latin American Observatory*, is a regional collaborative network that, in addition to the existing infrastructure in each country, aims to ultimately increase the efficiency of the decisionmaking processes, especially in terms of getting more accurate environmental information and exchanging experiences on data, methodologies and scientific products, all of which are

Present partners of this collaboration are national weather services, universities and research institutes of Central America, the Andean countries and from Southeast South America (see Figure 1). Nowadays, the Centro de Modelado Científico (CMC) of Universidad del Zulia, the founder of the initiative, regionally coordinates the OLE2. The coordinating role involves, among other tasks, the suggestion of (a) methodologies for the provision of scientifically based tools and products, (b) mechanisms for the successful use of the environmental information in the policy making process at the different levels (e.g. national and province governments, private sector), (c) facilitation of continuous and effective communication of the different partners and (d) the interchange of experiences and products (by means of the Observatory's products web interface1, wiki page2, forum3 and

done with a standardized methodology and a Web-sharing service.

email list4). For more information see references [1] and [2].

**Risk Management at** 

J. Quintana, A. Bonilla, W. Torres,

M. Pastén and O. Sánchez

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/2568

**1. Introduction** 

1 http://ole2.org

4 ole2@cmc.org.ve

2 http://mediawiki.cmc.org.ve

3 http://laft.cmc.luz.edu.ve:8080/foro\_ole2

**the Latin American Observatory** 

Á.G. Muñoz, D. Ruiz, P. Ramírez, G. León,

Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

