East Asia Pacific is the most disaster-stricken region in the world. According to a regional disaster risk management study from 2013, between 2000 and 2011, more than 1.6 billion people have been ...

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 ...

This webinar is convened by the United Nations Global Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation Centre (UN-GGKIC), within the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), ...

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 ...

The Department of Science and Technology-Cordillera (DOST-CAR) has turned over a disaster knowledge kiosk to the Kalinga provincial government to strengthen the province’s disaster preparedness. Vice ...

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 ...

In the past ten years we have seen several major reports and announcements seeking to improve and transform the way emergency management works in Australia. The National Recovery and Resilience Agency ...