Project Impact, a short-lived federal initiative that worked to create disaster-resistant communities, showed that teamwork by different government levels and the private and nonprofit sectors can do ...

Climate change exacerbates the severity of natural disasters, which disproportionately affect vulnerable populations. Mitigating disasters’ health consequences is critical to promoting health equity, ...

Alappuzha DDMA launches Campus Safety project to train college students in disaster management and leadership skills.

By Deslyn A Joseph The National Office of Disaster Services (NODS) is pursuing a national disaster resilience strategy, announcing it has secured approximately EC $40 million in potential funding for ...

Situations such as the coronavirus pandemic have heightened interest in the importance of disaster management and mitigation. At Rochester Institute of Technology, researchers have created two new ...

African SIDS are among the most vulnerable to climate change and natural hazards. As disasters grow in scale and impact, ...

MORRISVILLE, N.C., March 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- IEM, the nation's largest woman- and minority-owned disaster recovery and emergency management firm, was recently awarded a multimillion-dollar ...

The World Bank Group works with the government of India on implementation of its National Disaster Management Plan, with assessing risks and incorporating disaster risk information into development ...

As the federal government pushes more disaster recovery responsibilities onto states, they are "sitting ducks" for ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), in partnership with NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme, concluded a four-year project with a final ...