This article examines the significance of establishing a legal foundation for maintaining balance in emergency management, emphasizing the importance of legal and risk management systems in disaster ...

Far from simply a source of unstructured online content, disaster management in the digital age can be supported by careful ...

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.

Disaster risk management is the application of disaster risk reduction policies and strategies to prevent new disaster risk, reduce existing disaster risk and manage residual risk, contributing to the ...

A hybrid federal-state partnership could yield more efficient and effective disaster governance without sacrificing equity ...

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the ASEAN Secretariat have teamed up to launch a three-year disaster risk management plan that aims to strengthen the financial ...

In Colombia, World Bank support helped extend social protection to approximately 340,000 households and supported the incorporation of disaster risk management into new construction, renovation, or ...

Building on the progress achieved through previous Bank-financed projects, the Second Disaster Risk Management Development Policy Loan with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (Cat DDO II) project ...