Technology disaster recovery (DR) initiatives provide strategies and procedures that can help organisations protect investments in IT systems and infrastructure. The essential mission for disaster ...

Disaster risk profiles are critical tools that help leaders and disaster risk practitioners make informed decisions on managing disaster risk. National-level disaster risk profiles provide information ...

Natural disasters disrupt societies, strain national economies and claim thousands of lives each year. Storms, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and prolonged droughts damage infrastructure, ...

A significant aim of natural disaster research is to improve the science, or the hazard assessment, of risk associated with such disasters. This goal could be achieved by, for example, enhancing the ...

About this Course This course focuses on using disaster risk analytics to forecast the financial impacts of future disasters and to design cost-effective disaster risk financing strategies. It ...

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” ...

USRA’s Dr. Eleanor Stokes, senior scientist at the Earth from Space Institute, served as a contributing author to the prestigious biennial United Nations Global Assessment Report (GAR), released ...

May 17 (Reuters) - The United Nations published a landmark report on Sunday about how natural disasters threaten lives and livelihoods around the world. [LD310640] Following are the main findings of ...

Wayne County tops the list of Michigan counties most vulnerable to natural disaster and is No. 26 among the 3,142 counties in the country, according to a new National Risk Index released by the ...

(Reuters) - The United Nations published a landmark report on Sunday about how natural disasters threaten lives and livelihoods around the world. * Since 1975, 23 mega-disasters have killed 1.7 ...