A study titled "Sustainable Selection of Disaster Recovery Centers: A Comparative GIS Analysis and Fucom-Based Electre I ...

Urbanization in the Global South has intensified housing shortages, spatial segregation, and inequalities, with informal settlements housing over one ...

Esther Jang, a graduate student at the University of Washington, pitches at a recent Urban Resilience Hackathon at the UW. (Chuck Wolfe Photo) Editor’s note: Chuck Wolfe participated in this hackathon ...

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued a draft guide to help communities plan for and act to keep windstorms, floods, earthquakes, sea-level rise, ...

The government of Portugal is considering catastrophe bonds as a potential mechanism that could be utilised to provide risk capital for disaster ...

He highlighted the importance of stronger building codes, safer urban development, improved emergency response systems and ...

On February 26, 1852, the HMS Birkenhead struck a cluster of rocks off the coast of South Africa. With only a few lifeboats for the 638 people aboard, Captain Robert Salmond ordered the women and ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Long before the winds and the rain and the flooding, there was ...

The initiative includes $252.7 million aimed at helping residents recover from recent hurricanes.

Resilience needs to be treated not just as an afterthought, but as a guiding principle for planning, procurement, financing ...

India’s National Adaptation Plan integrates climate resilience into development planning across key sectors and policies ...