The “perfect storm” is a phrase often invoked to suggest a combination of rare events that generate something unusually large and adverse. Often used in meteorological contexts, “perfect storms” ...

The impacts of climate change, associated sea level rise and extreme weather are amplifying as a result of record greenhouse gas levels and combining with urbanization, environmental degradation and ...

When we talk about disasters, we often default to the language of nature. We describe storms as "unprecedented," floods as ...

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Japan, despite having high exposure to various risks, has developed highly effective disaster reduction practices. These policy-driven strategies focus on community involvement and continuous ...

A new report by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) presents a tool for conducting an initial broad-based assessment of the resilience of a country’s health system to ...

In Colombia, World Bank support helped extend social protection to approximately 340,000 households and supported the incorporation of disaster risk management into new construction, renovation, or ...

THE Emergency Events Database showed 21 percent more natural disasters were recorded in 2023 than in 2013 resultingin 86,743 fatalities. Based on this data, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities ...

The Local Government Unit (LGU) of San Isidro, Northern Samar, has pioneered a bold new approach to disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM) in partnership with Climate Survival Solutions ...