The Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) and Deakin University, Australia, have successfully concluded the ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is back in the news again, with the administration pushing its goal of placing ...

Dr P K Mishra highlighted the growing interconnections among climate change, urbanisation, infrastructure expansion and ...

India, Oct. 27 -- PK Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, on Tuesday called for a comprehensive approach to ...

The need for comprehensive disaster risk management has never been more evident. In recent years, major storms, earthquakes, wildfires, tornados, derechos, and other destructive large-scale events ...

P K Mishra, Principal Secretary to the prime minister, on Tuesday called for a comprehensive approach to disaster risk reduction, emphasising that the next decade must focus on protecting development ...

The United Nations system, coordinated by the United Nations Office for Disaster Reduction, has guidelines for nations and municipalities to manage natural hazard risk. Foremost among these, in many ...

We’re launching the first Disaster Risk and Age Index at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, 14-18 March. The Index ranks 190 countries across the world on the disaster ...

The Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission , on behalf of the government of Pakistan, is set to host the ...

It is just over three years since United Nations Member States adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the global plan to reduce disaster losses, which is pivotal to the ...

The baseline study on the proposed Disaster Risk Reduction Act, following the proposal for the National Disaster Management ...

The human and environmental cost of climate change is all around us, and on the rise. The UN reports about 90% of all disasters are weather-related, and that weather and climate are major drivers of ...