The numbers are staggering, and they keep getting worse. The United States experienced 27 separate billion-dollar weather and ...

International Day for Disaster Reduction 2022: Millions of people around the world are impacted by natural and man-made disasters every year, however, governments globally are realizing that most of ...

The United Nations system, coordinated by the United Nations Office for Disaster Reduction, has guidelines for nations and municipalities to manage natural hazard risk. Foremost among these, in many ...

WASHINGTON, June 18, 2018 – from $555 billion to $382 billion per year. That’s the conclusion of a new report from the World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), ...

Natural hazards, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, landslides, wildfires and droughts are increasing in frequency and intensity, in large part because of climate change (M. Coronese et al. Proc ...

Senior Lecturer, Humanitarian Emergency and Disaster Management, College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Society, Charles Darwin University The United Nations’ Sendai Framework for disaster risk ...

This International Day of Disaster Reduction, I was thinking about the theme of children and young people being partners in disaster risk reduction and how it applies to my own experience working in ...

CEBU Province is set to utilize P518.21 million in unused disaster funds accumulated from 2021 to 2025 to strengthen its ...

Chile.- The National Office of Seismic Evaluation and Vulnerability of Infrastructure and Buildings, in coordination with the ...

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has appointed former Environment Secretary Maria Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga as Special Envoy for ...