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.
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 ...
Susann Baez Ullberg is Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Management Research and Training at the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm, Sweden.Jeroen Warner is Associate Professor at Wageningen ...
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 ...
The countries of the Central American region and the Dominican Republic are highly vulnerable and exposed to all types of natural hazards, which have intensified due to the effects of climate change.