How one community figured out how to reduce fire threats — and their insurance rates.

This year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, which was observed on 13 October 2022, focused on the objective to “Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard ...

With climate change driving the frequency and severity of extreme weather, traditional models that supported risk assessment are struggling.

“When disaster strikes, confusion and indecision often take place when we React instead of Proact” We need to ask what my agency’s capabilities are during the first 100 hours of a disaster. Regulatory ...

While the impact of more frequent and costly weather disasters on the insurance industry is well known, the new report from climate risk analytics firm First Street highlights the growing risk to ...

Effective occupational health and safety management requires a structured approach to hazard identification and risk assessment, which is best achieved by a management system. The implementation of an ...

Coastal regions, where dense clusters of critical infrastructure are found, are facing the sharpest edge of climate change.

Panama has instituted critical reforms to improve its technical and institutional capacity to manage the disaster risk resulting from natural and health-related hazards. The reforms allowed for a ...

Technology disaster recovery (DR) initiatives provide strategies and procedures that can help organisations protect investments in IT systems and infrastructure. The essential mission for disaster ...

USPS Facilities at Risk from Extreme Weather Disasters, GAO Recommends Climate Assessment The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has more than 32,000 facilities. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has ...