All countries face a wide range of hazards that have the potential to result in catastrophic societal impacts. Despite actions taken by local emergency management professionals, international trends ...

The course is an outcome of an MoU signed earlier between St. Xavier's University, Kolkata and India Japan Laboratory of Keio University, a statement informed. St. Xavier's University has introduced a ...

Disaster risk reduction is the wider process of planning, preparing for and responding to disasters as well as managing their consequences; UNESCO recognizes that actions are needed before, during and ...

Risk governance is key to establishing social resilience. It is the system of institutions, mechanisms, policy and legal frameworks used to guide, coordinate and oversee disaster risk reduction and ...

'It is very clear that the fight against disasters will be either won or lost at the level of cities. It's really important that we put our resources, our capacities, our mechanisms there,' says UNDRR ...

The National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF) is evolving from a facilitating and funding entity to a catalytic fund ...