Disasters have been on the news and in many peoples’ minds the last few weeks. It has been particularly so for me as I spent last week in Emmitsburg, Maryland, with 50 Del Norte County emergency ...

After catastrophic damage, how does a community rebuild? This an introduction to the disaster management cycle. Disaster 101: This is part of a series that looks at how communities recover from ...

As the floodwaters in Sumatra started to recede, the full extent of the devastation became painfully clear: more than 800 lives lost, over 3.2 million people affected and entire communities left ...

Kangaroo Island, before the 2019-2020 bushfires, burned more than two-fifths of the island and killed two people. Source: Courtesy of Ilan Kelman We have all been through the terrible COVID-19 ...

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), in collaboration with the Southern Command of the Indian Army, is organising a two-day national symposium, ‘Exercise AIKYA’, on disaster management ...