In August, a dry lightning storm over California sparked an intense wildfire that raged through communities in the Santa Cruz mountains. After the CZU Lightning Complex Fire was contained, local ...
Propel your career forward with an accredited graduate certificate. Unlike most other programs that focus on management of natural disasters, Michigan Tech's on-campus Natural Hazards and Disaster ...
Somewhere I stumbled across a reference to the book Natural Hazards, Unnatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention which was published by the World Bank, United Nations. An economic look ...
New World Bank-UN publication says cost-effective preventive measures can reduce toll of natural disasters, which caused 3.3 million deaths from 1970 to 2008. By 2100, even without climate change, ...
Disasters are no longer rare, isolated shocks. They are an escalating development challenge. In 2024 alone, global economic losses from disasters reached record levels, with the poorest countries hit ...
Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative addresses the broad issue of increasing the nation's resilience to disasters. This book defines "national resilience", describes the state of knowledge about ...
Far from simply a source of unstructured online content, disaster management in the digital age can be supported by careful ...
Hurricane Helene set up future disasters – cascading hazards like these are now upending risk models
Teresa Elder walks through a flooded Sandy Cove Drive from Hurricane Helene, Sept. 27, 2024, in Morganton, N.C. This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source ...
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