Situated around the “Pacific Ring of Fire,” APEC economies face significant threats from natural disasters and recognize the need to develop more robust financial management solutions for mitigating ...

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.

Natural and man-made disasters threaten millions of people every year and cause billions of property damage. How much do we know about them? And how can we use that knowledge to save lives and money?

In this undated photo provided Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects a construction site in Taechong-ri, North Korea, in a recovery effort ...

Disaster risk management is the application of disaster risk reduction policies and strategies to prevent new disaster risk, reduce existing disaster risk and manage residual risk, contributing to the ...

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 ...

The study assessed the effectiveness and capacity improvement of DRM (Disaster Risk Management)/Natural Resource Management actors. Specific areas of assessment included, evaluating community disaster ...

The Bahamas will have the best disaster risk management regime and governance in the Caribbean once it executes vital reforms aided by a $160m Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) loan. The ...