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.

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In disaster-prone Japan, torrential rains exacerbated by the climate crisis have caused serious flooding and landslides in recent years, including in the country’s many forests. While acknowledging ...

How could better application of information technology (IT) to disaster management reduce the human and economic costs of catastrophic events? This chapter outlines a vision for IT-enhanced disaster ...

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 ...

As the CEO of Allied Disaster Defense, a leader in disaster risk management, I've gained invaluable insights into the importance of proactive disaster preparedness for businesses. Over the years, our ...

Sierra Leone is prone to climate-related disasters like fires, water shortages, floods and mudslides. It has also seen serious disease outbreaks like Ebola and COVID-19. On the World Risk Index 2021, ...

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.