All-Hazards Natural Hazard Risk Reduction 
Emergency Planning
MARCH 3, 2025
There have recently been some natural hazard events of extraordinary size and power, but they are no more than curtain raisers. Natural hazard impacts are becoming fiercer, more extensive and more frequent. We must also grapple with complexity and intersection with other forms of threat and hazard.
National Center for Disaster Prepardness
JUNE 24, 2025
The 2025 wildfire season in the United States is forecasted to be above normal, highlighting the need to leverage emerging technologies for hazard risk mitigation. The Euro-Mediterranean and North African region MedEWSa serves is highly populated, economically vital, and rapidly warming, with a high diversity of people and hazards.
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National Center for Disaster Prepardness
MAY 30, 2025
Miguel-ngel Fernndez-Torres, an Assistant Professor at the Signal Theory and Communications Department at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and co-lead of the Working Group on Data at the Global Initiative on Resilience to Natural Hazards through AI Solutions. Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management (FG-AI4NDM).
Emergency Planning
JULY 5, 2019
Kuhn's is a model of innovation diffusion, based on observations of the 'model of natural science' (Harvey 1969). It lacks the spatial dimension of the 1960s work of the geographers Torsten Hägerstrand (1968) and his colleagues, but it has all the other components. Natural Hazards 86: 969-988. Ismail-Zadeh, A.T.,
Recovery Diva
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Key words: environmental governance, sustainability, resilience, climate risk, natural hazard, disaster risk reduction, building regulation. All too often such literature and texts lack gender diversity and key perspectives from women leaders. for paperback., for hardback, $42.36 for etext USD.
Emergency Planning
MAY 30, 2019
The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction was born out of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, 1990-2000. On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43.
Emergency Planning
MAY 14, 2024
This is not to denigrate the work of resilience managers, as there is obviously much to be done to reduce the risk and impact of adverse events. Put bluntly, in disaster risk reduction, these days the goalposts are moving faster than the players. Resilience and disaster risk reduction: an etymological journey.
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