Climate change and environmental degradation are worsening the impacts of disasters on vulnerable people – making it vital that environmental and humanitarian organizations work more closely together, ...

The countries of the Central American region and the Dominican Republic are highly vulnerable and exposed to all types of natural hazards, which have intensified due to the effects of climate change.

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 ...

Professor Lee Miles received funding from the UK's Global Research Challenges Fund (GCRF) under the auspices of Driving African Capacity-Building in Disaster Management (AFRICAB) Research Project, ...

Intervention to address disasters has evolved through time into a complex policy subsystem, and disaster policy is implemented through a set of functions known as emergency management and response.

In the aftermath of the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power disaster (known as 3.11), Japan’s overwhelmed bureaucrats realised that disaster management planning had to change. In a ...

T he tornado that killed dozens of people on the night of 31 March highlighted Nepal’s vulnerability to disasters. It proved that Nepal has to be prepared not just for the deadly calamities we know ...