Traditional leaders from across eThekwini came out in large numbers during the Traditional Leaders Disaster Management ...

NADMEX, Türkiye’s first and only Disaster Management Exhibition and Summit, is preparing to bring together all stakeholders of the sector ...

This study is led by researcher Yi Huang and Yongqi Xia (School of Internet of Things, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications), researcher Xueying Zhang and Yehua Sheng (Key Laboratory of ...

Globally, floods are the most frequent and damaging among natural hazards. Between 1998-2017, floods led to economic damages exceeding US$600 billion, affected more than 2 billion people, and resulted ...

In November 2007, the state of Tabasco suffered its worst flood in the past 50 years. A week of heavy rains and storms inundated the oil-rich state and more than one million people - approximately 50% ...

The initiative aimed to enhance safety awareness and equip participants with essential knowledge of disaster management and ...

Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Deakin University In the past ten years we have seen ...

Through HelpAge’s disaster risk reduction (DRR) work with communities and older people’s associations, we have found that older people often hold very valuable knowledge. On International Day of ...

The new 'ASPECT' initiative could help boost quicker collective regional responses during large-scale or evolving disasters, analysts say A framework proposed at an Asean ministers' meeting is set to ...