Two recent major disaster events in Palu in September and Lombok in August have tested current disaster risk governance in Indonesia. Thousands of people were killed and displaced as a result of these ...

This Scientific Reports Collection welcomes original research on Disaster risk management and resilience. Narrative review articles are also welcomed, to our sister journal Scientific Reviews. For ...

A worker in Thailand clears a road after a major flood. Disasters can threaten the infrastrucutre, investment climate, and human capital that jobs depend on. Photo credit: Adobe Stock At the World ...

I have had the opportunity to contribute chapters to textbooks written on a variety of topics. While I’m not an academic, I have had practical experience in various subjects that are of importance to ...

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 ...

Highly vulnerable to natural disasters and rainfall-induced crises, Uttarakhand has once again established a strong identity ...

A new global study covering 132 countries, Worldwide Job Losses Due to Natural Hazards, finds that each year, disasters and extreme heat are associated with the loss of around 90 million full‑time job ...