Susann Baez Ullberg is Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Management Research and Training at the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm, Sweden.Jeroen Warner is Associate Professor at Wageningen ...
The need for comprehensive disaster risk management has never been more evident. In recent years, major storms, earthquakes, wildfires, tornados, derechos, and other destructive large-scale events ...
In November 2007, the state of Tabasco suffered its worst flood in the past 50 years. A week of heavy rains and storms inundated the oil-rich state and more than one million people - approximately 50% ...
Disasters are no longer rare, isolated shocks. They are an escalating development challenge. In 2024 alone, global economic losses from disasters reached record levels, with the poorest countries hit ...
Latin American and Caribbean countries encounter disasters each year, ranging from localized tragedies to region-wide catastrophes. These disasters are large, rapid-onset incidents, and they include ...
ZURICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Leading think tank of the international insurance industry, The Geneva Association, has today published a new tool, The Stakeholder Landscape in Extreme Events and Climate ...
It is just over three years since United Nations Member States adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the global plan to reduce disaster losses, which is pivotal to the ...
Flooding from Typhoon Ketsana in the Philippines in 2009. The Philippines is one of the most disaster-prone countries in Asia that have made "striking paradigm shifts" in disaster risk reduction and ...
In this undated photo provided Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects a construction site in Taechong-ri, North Korea, in a recovery effort ...
No articles found. State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Disaster Risk Reduction did not contribute to any primary research papers from Nature Index journals in the current 12 month ...
The Commission on Audit says this defeated 'the objectives of strengthening the capacity to build disaster-resilient communities and to enhance disaster preparedness at all levels' in these areas ...