Ecosystems play a pivotal role as a frontline defense against hazards, acting as a shield to prevent disasters and mitigate their impacts on communities, critical infrastructure, and essential ...

This summary report looks at the outcomes and recommendations from a HelpAge regional workshop on disaster risk reduction held in Bangkok, Thailand in October 2012.

For community risk reduction (CRR) to effect long-term change, tragic events must be perceived as a continuous threat to all, not simply random acts of misfortune that happen to others. CRR in today’s ...

Daniel Byrne and Ted Bouthiller Jr. offer a remedy for overloaded fire inspectors: include basic fire code instruction in firefighter training to put more eyes and ears on the ground for reducing ...

Ministers from the G20, or Group of Twenty recently came together in Johannesburg, South Africa to address major global ...

Flood insurance is a safety net people hope never to need. But the net is full of holes, and hope is unreliable. When payments do come, they’re often too little and too late, especially for renters ...

We must stop treating resilience as something that arrives through projects.

MANILA, Philippines – Next-generation business leader Jessica Sy joined regional policymakers and development leaders at the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s Women’s International ...