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.

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How could better application of information technology (IT) to disaster management reduce the human and economic costs of catastrophic events? This chapter outlines a vision for IT-enhanced disaster ...

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 ...

T he tornado that killed dozens of people on the night of 31 March highlighted Nepal’s vulnerability to disasters. It proved that Nepal has to be prepared not just for the deadly calamities we know ...

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 ...

Intervention to address disasters has evolved through time into a complex policy subsystem, and disaster policy is implemented through a set of functions known as emergency management and response.

Sierra Leone is prone to climate-related disasters like fires, water shortages, floods and mudslides. It has also seen serious disease outbreaks like Ebola and COVID-19. On the World Risk Index 2021, ...

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 ...